Actor
Knox Manning
January 17, 1904 · Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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.
Often works with
James Gleason
2 titles together
Meet John Doe, Tanks a Million
Gene Lockhart
2 titles together
Meet John Doe, Red Light
Sterling Holloway
2 titles together
Meet John Doe, Cheers for Miss Bishop
George Murphy
2 titles together
Border Incident, Tom, Dick and Harry
Virginia Mayo
2 titles together
Red Light, The Kid from Brooklyn
Walter Huston
2 titles together
Know Your Enemy: Japan, Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Full filmography · 62
Blackhawk
as Narrator (voice)
1952
Mysterious Island
as Narrator (voice)
1951
Cody of the Pony Express
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1950
Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey
as Radio Announcer
1950
Border Incident
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
19496.9
Red Light
as Newsreel Commentator (voice) (uncredited)
19495.9
Wild Weed
as Narrator (voice)
1949
The Lawton Story
as Narrator
1949
Congo Bill
as Narrator
1948
The Babe Ruth Story
as Narrator
1948
Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1948
Hollywood Wonderland
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1947