Spoiler : Born in St Louis, Missouri 7/26/1915; died 10/23/2005 of pneumonia in Encino, California. Father of writer Fred S. Fox, Jr. Fox graduated from UC Berkeley in 1938. He began his career at radio stations KYA and KSFO, both CBS affiliates in San Francisco. He had his own KSFO show called Freddie the Fox, but it was cancelled when mothers complained their children were imitating his stutter. He worked as a writer for the Office of War Information at the beginning of WWII. He moved to Hollywood in 1943, where he became a comedy writer for radio programs.

Spoiler : Writer for The Bob Hope Show on NBC-Radio (1944-1955), NBC-TV (1953-1956). Writer for other radio programs including episodes of Judy Canova Show on CBS and NBC (1943-1948); The Jack Carson Show on CBS (1944-1948).

Spoiler : From the early 1950s to the 1980s, Fox was a writer for television series including episodes of Alice; All In the Family; The Andy Griffith Show; The CBS Newcomers; The Danny Thomas Show; The Dick Van Dyke Show; Diff'rent Strokes; The Doris Day Show; F Troop; Here's Lucy; Hong Kong Phoeey; The Jackie Gleason Show; The Jeffersons; The Jerry Lewis Show; The Jimmy Stewart Show; The Lucy Show; Love Boat; The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis; Maude; Mona McCluskey; The Mothers- In-Law; Petticoat Junction; The Red Skelton Show; Sigmund and the Sea Monsters; Temperatures Rising.