Oct 12, 1991 · Comedian and actor Redd Foxx, best known as junkman Fred Sanford, died Friday after suffering a heart attack and collapsing on the set of his new television series "The Royal …

To prevent his son from leaving home, and bent on having things his own way in general, Fred often calls upon such ruses as fake heart attacks or phony back ailments.

In what would become the character's best known trademark, when something would alarm him, or when things did not go the way he wanted them, Fred would inevitably have a simulated …

In this iconic episode, “Fred’s Funniest Heart Attacks (Part 2),” Fred Sanford masterfully exaggerates his symptoms, clutching his chest and calling out to his deceased wife, Elizabeth.

Fred Has the Big One: Directed by Jim Drake. With Redd Foxx, Dennis Burkley, LaWanda Page, Marguerite Ray. After years of crying wolf, Fred suffers an actual heart attack.

Oct 12, 1991 · Comedian Redd Foxx, who became a television star playing an irascible, bawdy junkman in “Sanford and Son” and returned nearly two decades later in the current CBS series …

Oct 12, 1991 · LOS ANGELES - Comedian Redd Foxx, who played a crabby junkman on the 1970s TV series "Sanford and Son," died yesterday after suffering a heart attack on the set of …