Knox Manning
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 series. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Meet John Doe
as Radio AnnouncerAs a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe,"...
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Batman
as NarratorJapanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham...
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Destination Moon
as Himself (uncredited)A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist...
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The Babe Ruth Story
as NarratorThe baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees...
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Buck Privates Come Home
as CommentatorTwo ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French...
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Mysterious Island
as Narrator (voice)It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the...
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The Flying Irishman
as CommentatorThis is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan...
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Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
as NarratorThe third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi...
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Hollywood Wonderland
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
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Know Your Enemy: Japan
as NarratorFrank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States'...
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The Monster and the Girl
as AnnouncerAfter a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an...
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The Kid from Brooklyn
as Radio AnnouncerShy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer...
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Facing Your Danger
as Narrator (voice)This Warner Bros. The Sports Parade series short chronicles the attempt by a group of men to...
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Sabotage
as AnnouncerThe night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is...
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Harmon of Michigan
as BroadcasterA former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play...
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Tom, Dick and Harry
as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman...
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The Tanks Are Coming
as NarratorEducational short about the status of battle tanks and tank training in the U.S. Army in pre-War...
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Up in Arms
as Narration (voice)Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his...
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Mandrake the Magician
as NarratorMandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
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Jammin' the Blues
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam...
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The Secret Code
as NarratorA superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and...
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The Unwritten Code
as Narrator (uncredited)The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime "B" picture. Though Ann...
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Cody of the Pony Express
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer.
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The Green Archer
as Narrator (voice)The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on...
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Tanks a Million
as Radio Interviewer CardiganChubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with...
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Congo Bill
as NarratorCongo Bill is hired to locate an heiress lost somewhere in Africa.
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Hitler Lives
as Narrator (voice)This short film, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his...
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Blackhawk
as Narrator (voice)Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded...
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Perils of the Royal Mounted
as NarratorSergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.
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Wild Weed
as Narrator (voice)A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking...
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Remember Pearl Harbor
as News Reporter at Airport (uncredited)A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.
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The Lawton Story
as NarratorMost of the footage is devoted to the annual Passion Play at Lawton, Oklahoma, enacted by...
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At the Stroke of Twelve
as CarsonThis entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short...
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Deadwood Dick
as NarratorColumbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
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Cheers for Miss Bishop
as Anton RadcheckElla Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a...
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Beyond the Line of Duty
as Radio Announcer (uncredited)This short film in support of the war effort focuses on the training and missions of Army Air...
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Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)Tex Granger heads toward Three Buttes when he comes across a young boy guarding a gold shipment...
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Son of the Guardsman
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)David Trent is a nobleman who forms an outlaw group to combat his evil uncle Sir Edgar Bullard....
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The Iron Claw
as Narrator (voice)The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a...
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A Yank on the Burma Road
as Radio AnnouncerA celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II...
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Soldiers in White
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)A young intern is drafted and placed in the Army Medical Corps as a buck private and is none too...
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Kings of the Turf
as Commentator (voice)Kings of the Turf is a 1941 American short documentary film about horse racing, directed by Del...
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The Rear Gunner
as Narrator (voice)Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee...
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The Birds and the Beasts Were There
as Narrator (Voice)Visits to three animal parks in Miami, Florida: the Rare Bird Farm, with it's many chickens,...
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Story of a Dog
as Narrator (voice)Story of a Dog is a 1945 short documentary film under the supervision of Gordon Hollingshead. In...
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Smart as a Fox
as NarratorSmart as a Fox is a 1946 short documentary film supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. In this short...
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The Forest Commandos
as Narrator (voice)This short film focuses on Ontario's fire rangers, who keep watch over Canada's forests.
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Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
as Radio AnnouncerNewlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey...
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A Ship Is Born
as NarratorThis Vitaphone 'Technicolor Special' (production number 8001) portrays the behind-the-scenes...
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Carnival of Rhythm
as Narrator (uncredited)A colorful music and dance tribute to the peasants and workers of Brazil.
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Angels of Mercy
as Commentator (voice)Short film in support of the Red Cross showing civilian volunteers'work, radio and movie...
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This is Your Enemy
as NarratorFootage from a Nazi propaganda film about the invasion of Poland is translated from German.
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