Knox Manning Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Knox Manning Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Charles Knox Manning (January 17, 1904 â€" August 26, 1980) was an

American 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 1940 to 1954 he was

the narrator of Columbia Pictures' popular adventure serials, reading

the sometimes tongue-in-cheek scripts with enthusiasm. (The

voice-overs in the Batman TV series of the 1960s owe much of their

style to Knox Manning's breezy but urgent narrations of the 1940s,

including his work in the two Batman movie serials.) Away from

Columbia, he was the commentator for Warner Brothers' historical,

musical, and novelty short subjects. He made his services available to

independent producers as well, bringing equal vigor to a religious

drama and an anti-vice crusade.In 1943 he joined RKO Radio Pictures'

Flicker Flashbacks crew and became that series' most prolific

narrator, working in more than half of the series' 34 comedies. Trade

reviewers constantly praised this series of antique silent films

re-edited with satirical soundtracks, and often singled out Knox

Manning's comic timing as an important asset.
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