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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.
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21 March 1946
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister.
27 June 1950
A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon.
16 July 1943
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies.
05 May 1944
In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam session.
04 September 1942
A superhero known as The Black Commando battles Nazi agents who use explosive gases and artificial lightning to sabotage the war effort.
13 September 1951
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War.
15 August 1941
The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster.
10 April 1943
Documentary-style drama on training of aerial rear gunners in World War II. Private PeeWee Williams, a Kansas farm boy, transforms his home-grown shooting skills into those necessary to an aerial gunner in the tail turret of an American bomber.
14 March 1941
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills.
24 July 1952
Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis.
01 December 1945
Joe McDoakes thinks he's allergic.
09 August 1945
Frank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States' new enemy: Japan.
07 March 1942
Sardonic commentary over an abridged version of DOWN ON THE FARM (1920).
19 January 1946
This short film focuses on Ontario's fire rangers, who keep watch over Canada's forests.
16 September 1948
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
29 January 1942
A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.
07 April 1939
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight.
17 February 1944
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
13 June 1941
Janie is a telephone operator who is caught up in the lines of love of three men: car salesman Tom, Chicago millionaire Dick and auto mechanic Harry.
04 October 1941
Educational short about the status of battle tanks and tank training in the U.S. Army in pre-War 1941, featuring a comical Army trainee from the Bronx.
30 September 1949
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess.
20 July 1949
A chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
12 September 1941
Chubby William Tracy starred as Dodo Doubleday, a feckless Army draftee blessed (or cursed) with a photographic memory.
07 February 1942
A young intern is drafted and placed in the Army Medical Corps as a buck private and is none too happy about it.
29 December 1945
This short film, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas live on.
02 January 1943
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.
01 January 1942
This Vitaphone 'Technicolor Special' (production number 8001) portrays the behind-the-scenes story of the building and manning, during World War Two, of the USA supply line to Victory against the Axis powers, the United States Merchant Marine service.
31 March 1949
Most of the footage is devoted to the annual Passion Play at Lawton, Oklahoma, enacted by volunteers from several nearby communities.
13 October 1939
The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop.
06 February 1947
A brief history of Stan Kenton's musical career from taxi-dance gigs to his successful big band orchestra.
20 September 1941
A short in the WB Hollywood Novelty series (production number 7301) about the training of polo ponies.
29 May 1942
Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.
06 May 1939
Mandrake and his team attempt to prevent "The Wasp" from stealing and using a new Radium invention.
09 August 1947
Two tour guides take visitors on a promotional tour of Warner Bros.' studios.
04 April 1947
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to.
23 October 1946
David Trent is a nobleman who forms an outlaw group to combat his evil uncle Sir Edgar Bullard. The outlaws of Sherwood Forest are championing young Roger Mowbray, really Prince Richard, whose right to the throne is being usurped by an evil regent.
27 April 1946
Smart as a Fox is a 1946 short documentary film supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. In this short film, a fox cub experiences life in the forest.
12 January 1946
This short tells the story of archery through the ages, mostly using Warner Brothers archive footage.
11 September 1941
A former University of Michigan football star (Tom Harmon) rejects an opportunity to play professional football.
06 April 1950
Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer.
15 November 1941
This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House".
11 May 1946
This Warner Bros. The Sports Parade series short chronicles the attempt by a group of men to navigate the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to Lake Mead.
01 April 1948
Tex Granger heads toward Three Buttes when he comes across a young boy guarding a gold shipment whico
26 October 1944
A Nazi spy sneaks into the U.S., hoping to release hundreds of German prisoners. He fails, but not until plenty of bullets have been spent.
07 June 1947
A little feature on horse racing.
25 October 1940
The struggle over the Bellamy estate ends with Michael Bellamy accused of murder and killed on the way to prison, while his brother Abel Bellamy takes control of the estate for his own nefarious plans.
19 July 1940
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
21 February 1941
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love.
02 January 1942
A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.
27 September 1941
Kings of the Turf is a 1941 American short documentary film about horse racing, directed by Del Frazier.
07 January 1940
Warner Bros. short about stuntmen and stuntwomen and how they do their work, featuring real-life stunt artists Harvey Parry, Mary Wiggins, and Allen Pomeroy.
30 September 1943
Good Old Corn was released theatrically in 1943 and later as a small 8mm silent film for the home market.
07 November 1942
This short film in support of the war effort focuses on the training and missions of Army Air Corps Captain Hewitt T.
01 January 1943
Footage from a Nazi propaganda film about the invasion of Poland is translated from German.
05 February 1950
Newlyweds Joe and Anne Palooka are delayed in their honeymoon plans by the helpful Humphrey Pennyworth and by considerably-less-helpful manager, Knobby Walsh.
24 January 1943
Tom, a young Army Air Forces pilot, begins instruction with his captain on flying the A-20 attack aircraft.
23 August 1941
A colorful music and dance tribute to the peasants and workers of Brazil.
21 January 1940
This short film showcases the skills of Howard Hill, known as the "World's Greatest Archer".
30 December 1944
Visits to three animal parks in Miami, Florida: the Rare Bird Farm, with it's many chickens, cranes, and other birds; the Monkey Jungle, where the visitors are caged and the simian inhabitants roam freely; and finally the Parrot Jungle.
