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Family Ties actor details 'weird pictures' and disturbing letters from inmate while he was a child star

Brian Bonsall, who was only four years old when he first appeared on 'Family Ties,' says he was sent disturbing letters and pictures by an inmate when he was still a child.

Fox, who was 24 when the series fifth season hit the air, was able to parlay the massive spotlight the show turned on him into roles in generation-defining projects like Back to the Future and Teen Wolf. Kathleen shared a similar memory of the public insecurity brought about by young fame: "It was a few months after the first show started airing, some older lady rushing up and saying, 'Andy! Bonsall would go on to star in films like the Patrick Swayze comedy Father Hood and enduringly popular Disney original Blank Check, before moving with his family to Colorado.

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