The 50 greatest TV and movie detectives of all time. Michael J. Fox Family: Wife, Children, Parents, Siblings While Esm also stays out of the I'm kind of all akimbo and not very steady on my feet. You're able to walk again. Fox Alex P. Keaton Justine Bateman Mallory Keaton Tina Yothers Jennifer Keaton Jean Ainslie Tour Guide Philip Anthony Receptionist Paul Cooke Student John Gillett Inspector Wyman Mark Greenstreet Bellboy Peter Guinness Contact Man Guy Henry Jonathan Richard Huw Michael Philip Hynd Markham Charles Lewsen Lord #2 I said, yeah, I'm fine. There, he landed a role on the series Palmerstown, U.S.A., before being cast as Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties (1982-1989), where he would woo audiences with his confident charm and impeccable comedic timing for the next seven years. So it was quite a journey that I went through in the '90s. Fox chose to keep the illness private and quickly signed on for several films in the '90s, none of which were as well-received as his previous work. On Monday, the Family Ties star posted a throwback photo of son Sam in honor of his 33rd birthday. But at that time, his cruelty toward other people and other groups was already established. I'm having a great time. ", "After that," he recalled, "Tracy said to me, 'You showed up again. In an interview with Jane Pauley on CBS Mornings, the Back to the Future and Family Ties actor, 61, reflected on Parkinsons. "You can't explain to him that I'm doing a movie. The actor's trademark humor permeates even its darker moments, and his banter with Guggenheim is a highlight. Im not gonna be 80. Fox, 61, was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinsons disease in 1991 when he was just 29. His other films include "The Secret Of My Success," "Doc Hollywood," "Casualties Of War" and "The American President." ", Fox and Pollan's relationshipis said to haveblossomed on the set of the movieBright Lights, Big City, which came out in 1988not longafterLemon Sky, the TV movie on which Bacon met the love ofhis life, Kyra Sedgwick, premiered. FOX: Well, speech is clearly - I'm - I can be halting. Derechos But they were determined not to put their life on hold. We'll do what we can until you can get it out. When he'd go trick-or-treating with his younger sisters, adults would often assume that he was the baby of the family. MICHAEL J FOX: Thank you. And so I had to separate the Alex Keaton relationship to Reagan, my relationship to Reagan as a political person and my reaction to Reagan as - he was grandfatherly and nice and very sweet to me. FOX: Well, Tracy knows - she knows from being with me that she can't assume she knows everything I feel. By the time he left the show, he'd won an Emmy, three Golden Globes, and two Screen Actors Guild awards for his performance. I had a house in Laurel Canyon. I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. The rest of the family stayed there. Fox is one proud papa. He has fallen several times because of the disease and said that falling is a big killer, along with pneumonia. The twins even parted ways for school, Schuyler enrolling at Pomona College and Aquinnah at Duke. Fox as a talented actor, who was born in 1961 and started rising to stardom in We also hear a little from his kids and a lot from his wife, Tracy Pollan. Below, EW breaks down some of our favorite moments from Still, which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival. He also founded the Michael J. Meet Michael J. Foxs Family His Grown Up Son Looks Just Like Him! "It's an amazing fing life," he says. I have to go outside and walk around the corner, which, when I first bought this apartment, was a very small trip, but now it's a hell of a commute. When Baxter-Birney, Fox's TV mom on Family Ties, took maternity leave, Fox was freed up to do a movie, accepting a role in what he thought of at the time as a "B-grade wolf movie.".