Knox Manning born Charles Knox Manning January 17 1904 August 26 1980 was an American radio and film announcernarratorcommentator 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