Redd Foxx Suffers Heart Attack, Is in Extremely Critical Condition

Comedian and actor Redd Foxx collapsed with a heart attack Friday afternoon at Paramount Studios and was hospitalized in extremely critical condition, authorities said.

Paramedics were called to the studio shortly after 4 p.m., a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman said.

Foxx was unconscious and “extremely critical” when he was brought into the emergency room at Queen of Angels-Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The 69-year-old actor is best known as the irascible, bawdy junkman Fred G. Sanford in the popular television series “Sanford and Son,” which ran from 1972 to 1977, and for his off-color routines in nightclubs.

After “Sanford and Son,” his life became a saga of rags to riches and more recently, back to bankruptcy and near rags. He now stars in the CBS series “The Royal Family.”