Michael J. Fox Gives Moving Speech While Accepting Emmys Humanitarian Award

The Emmys honored Michael J. Fox on Monday night with the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, recognizing his work in bringing attention to Parkinson’s disease with his Michael J. Fox Foundation . Julianna Margulies, who starred alongside Fox on The Good Wife , presented him with the award.

After thanking Margulies and the Television Academy for the honor, Fox spoke to the legacy of Bob Hope. “My parents were born during the Great Depression and came of age during World War II,” he said. “To them, Bob was more than an entertainer, he was a selfless champion of soldiers and military families like mine for decades. Christmases, Thanksgivings, and other holidays where he could have been celebrating with his family, he was showing up for the troops in Berlin, Saigon, and the Middle East with a turkey leg and a golf club.”