Matthew Bernard Fox (''Babe'', ''Ben'') (October 6, 1916 – October 3, 1998) was an American

figure skater Figure skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. It was the first winter sport to be included in the Olympic Games, when contested at the 1908 Olympics in London. The Olympic disciplines are me ...

who competed in single skating and

pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

. His pairs partner was

Joan Tozzer Joan Tozzer Cave (born September 19, 1921 in Boston, Massachusetts; died April 15, 2012 in Dedham, Massachusetts) was born to Alfred Marston (1877-1954) and Margaret (née Castle, 1886-1979) Tozzer. She was an American figure skater who compete ...

. They won the United States Figure Skating Championships pairs title in 1938, 1939, and 1940. Fox was the 1936 U.S. Champion in both singles and pairs on the junior level. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University, class of 1938. After service in the U. S. Navy in World War II, he had a long career in television, first in programming at the Dumont Network in New York City and then in Los Angeles, where, under the name Ben Fox, he created and produced "Waterfront" (starring Preston Foster) and other series. He was first husband of Lucy Pope, later wife of tennis coach

Harry Hopman Henry Christian Hopman Order of the British Empire, CBE (12 August 1906 – 27 December 1985) was an Australian tennis player and coach. Early life Harry Hopman was born on 12 August 1906 in Glebe, New South Wales, Glebe, Sydney as the third c ...

.''Lucy Pope Hopman'', legacy.com
(access: 2 January 2019).

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* American male pair skaters American male single skaters Harvard University alumni 1916 births 1998 deaths 20th-century American people {{US-figure-skating-bio-stub