Fox Harris(1936-1988)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Fox Harris was a marvelously quirky and distinctive character actor who
specialized in playing colorful and eccentric supporting roles in
offbeat low-budget independent pictures made throughout the 1980's. Harris
was born on May 3rd, 1936 in Pennsylvania. He frequently appeared in
movies directed by both Alex Cox and Fred Olen Ray. Best known as the
wacky brain-fried lobotomized scientist J. Frank Parnell who drives
around Los Angeles in a 1964 Chevy Malibu with dead aliens in the trunk
in the terrific science fiction punk black comedy cult classic Repo Man (1984), Harris was likewise memorable as the sickly Dr. Cal Timbergen in the
delightfully trashy "Alien" rip-off Mutant (1982), flaky
entomologist Prof. Whately in L'invasion des cocons (1988), the batty Colonel Cox in
Warlords (1988), and nutty asylum director Dr. Avol in the astonishingly odd
Dr. Caligari (1989). Outside of his film work, Harris was also an active
participant in the Los Angeles Theater Group. Fox Harris died on
December 27th, 1988 in Century City, California.
