Redd Foxx

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1922 age 0

   Born

2. 1991 age 68

   Died

3. 2013 age 68

   CreditThe Butler

• GFGerald Ford1 title
• ARAlan Rickman1 title
• DODavid Oyelowo1 title
• JGJim Gleason1 title
• DSDanny Strong1 title
• RWRobin Williams1 title
• THTerrence Howard1 title
• ADAlexandre Desplat1 title
• DGDouglas M. Griffin1 title
• FWForest Whitaker1 title

• If you can see the handwriting on the wall … you're on the toilet.

  Redd Foxx, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Love. Hygiene. That's the important thing. Hygiene. The toughest thing in the world: [you] have to turn to your mate one night and say: "You gotta wash your ass!" Shit. Knowing how difficult it is, I said it for you : You Gotta Wash Your Ass.

  Redd Foxx, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My first wife, I'll never forget her — and I've tried.

  Redd Foxx, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We were poor. If I wasn't a boy, I wouldn't have had nothing to play with.

  Redd Foxx, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

  Redd Foxx, CC BY-SA 4.0