Knox Manning

Knox Manning was an American actor and radio announcer who began as a newscaster at KNX before entering motion pictures in 1939 as an offscreen narrator. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, he became one of Hollywood's busiest voice artists, narrating Columbia Pictures adventure serials from 1940 to 1954, including two Batman serials, and commenting on Warner Brothers short subjects. In 1943 he joined RKO's Flicker Flashbacks and narrated more than half of its 34 comedies, with trade reviewers praising his comic timing. After leaving Columbia in 1954 he worked in Warner Brothers' publicity department, voicing television commercials. He appeared on camera in a handful of films, among them Tanks a Million (1941), Harmon of Michigan (1942) and Mr. Hex (1946). In radio he announced commercials for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and hosted The Knox Manning Show, Behind the Scenes and This Is the Story. He was a CBS Radio newscaster and later reported for California stations into the 1960s.