Redd Foxx might not be the household name to a 2020 audience that it was in the 1970s. Still, it’s safe to say that anyone who has enjoyed television recently can thank him for his service.

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF REDD FOXX By Dempsey J. Travis Urban Research Press, 209 pages, $23.75 Redd Foxx was, in his own way, a pioneer in the world of comedy–a specialist in blue humor who broke ...

Foxx’s sitcom Sanford and Son ran on NBC from 1972 to 1977.Time ranks the sitcom as one of the top shows in TV history. “Never was a more unlikely comic adapted so effectively to a sitcom as ...

Star of "Sanford and Son" had long, ... The Redd Foxx Story." Foxx was, Starr told "Early Show on Saturday Morning" co-anchor Russ Mitchell, "a guy who just deserves his due.