George Washington Lafayette Fox (July 3, 1825 â€" October 24, 1877)
was an American actor and dancer who became known for his Clown roles
and who based the characterisations for these roles on his inspiration
Joseph Grimaldi.Fox was born George Washington Lafayette Fox, the
first child of George Howe and Emily (née Watt) Fox of Cambridge,
Massachusetts. His parents were stock players at Boston’s Tremont
Street Theatre, where Laff (his childhood nickname) and his five
siblings were often called upon to play juvenile roles. Fox made his
debut at the Tremont Street Theatre when he was aged five, though in
later years his younger brothers, Charles and James, and his sister
Caroline were considered the more talented. James and Caroline became
popular in the Boston area as a child act and flourished for a number
of years. Fox’s parents decided his future would be better served if
he learned a trade and they enrolled him in an apprenticeship with a
local merchant.Fox's brother James continued acting for several years,
even while attending Harvard Law School and would later become a
successful lawyer and four-term mayor of Cambridge.His sister Caroline
married actor George C. Howard, a union that would leave an important
mark on the history of American theater. In 1852 Howard commissioned
his wife's cousin George L. Aiken to write a dramatization of the
anti-slavery screed Uncle Tom's Cabin. The original production spawned
a sequel and then was merged into a six-act play that ran until the
1930s. The play had probably a greater impact than the novel by
visually depicting the cruelties of slavery and was a boost to the
abolitionist movement. George L. Fox (clown) Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter