Knox Manning

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1904-01-17 (76 years old)

Deathday

1980-08-26

Place of Birth

Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Also known As

Charles Knox Manning

Knox Manning

Biography

Knox Manning (born Charles Knox Manning, January 17, 1904 – August 26, 1980) was an American radio and film announcer/narrator/commentator and film actor. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. He and Annette North Manning are interred at Ivy Lawn Cemetery in Ventura, California. A former radio newscaster at KNX and announcer, Manning entered the motion picture field in 1939 as an offscreen narrator. His distinctive voice and phrasing were noticed by other studios, and he quickly became one of the movies' busiest voice artists. Very often he was the trademark voice of several concurrent s...

Acting

1943

This is Your Enemy

as Narrator

1942

as Narrator (voice)

1942

A Yank on the Burma Road

as Radio Announcer

1944

The Unwritten Code

as Narrator (uncredited)

1946

Cavalcade of Archery

as Narrator (voice)

1943

as Narrator

1946

The Kid from Brooklyn

as Radio Announcer

1944

as Narration (voice)

1942

Rocky Mountain Big Game

as Narrator

1943

Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer

as Narrator

1950

Cody of the Pony Express

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1948

as Narrator

1942

Perils of the Royal Mounted

as Narrator

1939

Mandrake the Magician

as Narrator

1943

The Rear Gunner

as Narrator (voice)

1943

as Narrator

1941

The Tanks Are Coming

as Narrator

1942

as Narrator

1939

The Flying Irishman

as Commentator

1952

as Narrator (voice)

1941

Tanks a Million

as Radio Interviewer Cardigan

1940

as Narrator

1945

So You Think You're Allergic

as Narrator

1941

as Narrator (voice)

1940

The Green Archer

as Narrator (voice)

1941

At the Stroke of Twelve

as Carson

1941

Polo with the Stars

as Narrator (voice)

1939

as Announcer

1941

Kings of the Turf

as Commentator (voice)

1945

Know Your Enemy: Japan

as Narrator

1947

Hollywood Wonderland

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1943

The Man Killers

as Narrator

1944

The Birds and the Beasts Were There

as Narrator (Voice)

1949

The Lawton Story

as Narrator

1941

Carnival of Rhythm

as Narrator (uncredited)

1942

Soldiers in White

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1942

The Secret Code

as Narrator

1941

Harmon of Michigan

as Broadcaster

1946

as Narrator

1940

Spills for Thrills

as Narrator (voice)

1941

Cheers for Miss Bishop

as Anton Radcheck

1942

Remember Pearl Harbor

as News Reporter at Airport (uncredited)

1945

Are Animals Actors?

as Narrator (voice)

1946

Facing Your Danger

as Narrator (voice)

1941

The Monster and the Girl

as Announcer

1940

as Narrator (voice)

1943

Flight Characteristics of the A-20

as Narrator

1941

Tom, Dick and Harry

as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

1944

Jammin' the Blues

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1945

as Narrator (voice)

1945

as Narrator (voice)

1946

The Forest Commandos

as Narrator (voice)

1951

Mysterious Island

as Narrator (voice)

1946

Peeks at Hollywood

as Narrator (voice)

1950

Destination Moon

as Himself (uncredited)

1947

Buck Privates Come Home

as Commentator

1942

Beyond the Line of Duty

as Radio Announcer (uncredited)

1948

The Babe Ruth Story

as Narrator

1949

as Narrator (voice)

1941

as Radio Announcer

1947

Stan Kenton and His Orchestra

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1950

Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey

as Radio Announcer

1947

A Day at Hollywood Park

as Narrator (voice)

1940

Angels of Mercy

as Commentator (voice)

1948

Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1946

Son of the Guardsman

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1942

Divide and Conquer

as Narrator (voice)

1949

as Newsreel Commentator (voice) (uncredited)

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