 What if our ears had been back here? You'd have to pull your pants down to hear what I'm saying. Sanford and Son would run from 1972 to 1977, making Fox and his long list of co-stars household names. On October 11, 1991, while co-starring with Della Reese in The Royal Family, Fox would suffer a heart attack on set and later pass away at the hospital. Red Fox was 68 years old, and while the big one finally got him,