Alexander Knox

Alexander Knox

Nascimento : 1907-01-16, Strathroy, Ontario, Canada

Morte : 1995-04-25

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alexander Knox (January 16, 1907 – April 25, 1995) was a Canadian actor and author of adventure novels set in the Great Lakes area during the 19th century. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexander Knox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Alexander Knox

Filmes

Joshua Then and Now
Sen. Hornby
Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, it tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Mr. Gilman
Mistério no Parque Gorky
General
Um investigador da polícia de Moscou precisa solucionar um triplo assassinato que aconteceu no Parque Gorky: três cadáveres congelados com rostos mutilados e dedos cortados, são descobertos quando chega a primavera e a neve acumulada começa a derreter. Ele suspeita que ninguém quer que o caso seja realmente solucionado, além de começar a perceber que existe algum tipo de conspiração que envolve a alta sociedade de Moscou e seus governantes.
Cry of the Innocent
Thornton Donegin
An American insurance executive, who sees his wife and children die when a plane crashes into their vacation cottage on the Irish coast, uncovers a series of suspicious clues indicating that it was no accident after a pretty financial reporter who resembles his dead wife turns up.
Churchill and the Generals
Henry Stimson - Secretary of War
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Exterminação 2000
Meyer
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
Man Above Men
The Judge
The conflict between a judge who sees himself as a creative and skilful protector of democracy, and his daughter, who sees him in a totally different light.
Nicholas e Alexandra
The American Ambassador
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Puppet on a Chain
Colonel De Graaf
Special agent Taube is on the case of a deadly heroin smuggling operation. This one is notable for an amazing power boat chase through the canals and waterways of Amsterdam
Skullduggery
Buffington
An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man.
Run a Crooked Mile
Sir Howard Nettleton
A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he's had amnesia, is now married, and living in Switzerland. Now remembering the incident he returns to England to try to solve the mystery.
Fraulein Doktor
General Peronne
A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.
Shalako
Henry Clarke
Um grupo de aristocratas europeus estão em uma caçada no Novo México por volta do ano de 1880. Eles estão viajando com uma equipe completa, com mordomos, empregadas, finos tecidos de linho e safra de vinhos. Quando a caçada avança em uma reserva indígena, Countess Irina Lazaar (Brigitte Bardot) é atacada por um Apache. Shalako (Sean Connery), um observador do Exército dos Estados Unidos, corajosamente tenta salvá-la e leva os aristocratas para longe da morte iminente na reserva. Através da ira indígena, cada membro da caçada enfrenta a maior crise de suas vidas.
Villa, O Caudilho
President Madero
Estamos no início do Século XX e o México é um imenso barril de pólvora, envolvido em turbulentas revoluções e guerrilhas. Pancho Villa, um verdadeiro herói revolucionário na cultura mexicana, lidera um exército particular com ideais de liberdade e igualdade, e luta com o apoio de seu sofrido povo contra um governo imperialista e tirano. Conta para isso com a ajuda de seu braço direito, Fierro (Charles Bronson), e de Lee Arnold (Robert Mitchum), um mercenário americano dono de um pequeno avião, uma inovadora invenção para a época, e a coloca a serviço da guerra para Panchi villa. Esta é a história e aventura desses personagens, num filme western com um trio de grandes atores de hollywood.
How I Won the War
American General
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
Bikini Paradise
Commissioner Lighton
A pair of U.S. Navy officers are marooned on a South Pacific island with a group of women whom want to use them for marriage and mating purposes.
Estranho Acidente
Provost
A vida vã e insegura do professor de Oxford Stephen vira de pernas para o ar quando se apaixona por uma de suas alunas, Anna. Ela também atraiu a atenção de um aluno rico chamado William e de Charley, um colega cujo sucesso profissional e autoconfiança despertam inveja em Stephen.
Khartoum
Sir Evelyn Baring
Depois que o exército egípcio, comandada por oficiais britânicos, é destruído em uma batalha no Sudão em 1880, o governo britânico está em um dilema. Ele não querem enviar uma força militar britânica para uma guerra estrangeira, mas eles têm o compromisso de proteger os egípcios em Cartum. Eles decidem pedir o general Charles "Chinês" Gordon, que era uma espécie de herói popular no Sudão por ter acabado com o comércio de escravos na área, para providenciar a evacuação. Gordon concorda, mas também decide defender a cidade contra as forças do Mahdi - O Esperado - e tenta forçar os britânicos a enviar tropas.
A Mulher Detective
Minister
Modesty Blaise, uma agente secreta cuja cor de cabelo, estilo de cabelo e roupas modernas mudam em um estalar de dedos, está sendo usada pelo governo britânico como isca em um esforço para impedir um roubo de diamantes. Ela está sendo armada pelos federais, mas é sábia com a trama e chama o ajudante Willie Garvin e alguns outros amigos para enganá-los. Enquanto isso, em seu refúgio na ilha, Gabriel, o ladrão de diamantes, tem seus próprios planos para Blaise e Garvin.
As Bonecas da Morte
Frank Saville
Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were purchased by the crippled Mrs. Von Sturm, whose home is overcrowded with a doll collection. Her pale, wide-eyed, neurotic son is the prime suspect and the daughter of one of the victims discovers the shocking truth.
Na Vastidão da África
Rev. Anderson
A con man on the run in Africa aids a minister's daughter by helping lead a local tribe to their new homeland.
Uma Fenda no Mundo
Sir Charles Eggerston
Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.
A Mulher de Palha
Detective Inspector Lomer
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
As Duas Faces da Lei
Colonel Burton
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
In the Cool of the Day
Frederick Bonner
After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to Greece together to pursue the romance.
Malditos
Bernard
An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.
O Mais Longo dos Dias
Maj. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
O maior ataque que o mundo já viu, acontecido no dia 6 de junho, ficou conhecido como o Dia D e desbancou o domínio nazista na Europa. A ofensiva, que envolveu mais de 3 milhões de homens, foi uma das mais ousadas e sangrentas estratégias militares da era moderna e marcou o início do fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Vencedor dos Oscar de Fotografia em Preto e Branco e Efeitos Especiais, foi indicado ainda à outras três categorias: Filme, Montagem e Direção de Arte em Preto e Branco.
The Share Out
A gang of high class corporate thieves use blackmail to induce their victims to sell property at knock-down prices.
Oscar Wilde
Sir Edgar Clarke
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.
Crack in the Mirror
President
A Story of two love triangles...
O Navio Condenado
Petrie
Em uma noite tempestuosa no Canal da Mancha, John Sands (Charlton Heston), o capitão de um pequeno navio de salvamento, quase o choca com o cargueiro Mary Deare, que aparentemente estava abandonado. Sands sobe a bordo do Mary Deare, esperando achar alguma carga que seria, segundo leis internacionais, de quem pegar primeiro. Porém nada acha e, para sua surpresa, se depara com o 1º oficial Gideon Patch (Gary Cooper), que há 4 dias assumira o comando do navio em razão da morte do capitão Taggart. Em razão da tormenta Sands não voltou para seu navio, assim ele e Patch navegam até o Mary Deare encalhar. Em Londres eles não dizem que o navio encalhou, pois Patch suspeita que aconteceu algo errado e quer que o Mary Deare seja vistoriado por um órgão imparcial.
Missão Secreta em Amsterdam
Walter Keyser
When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England.
O Espia de Duas Caras
Gestapo Leader Müller
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.
Storm Over Jamaica
Leonard Pawley
A British schoolteacher moves to Jamaica to teach after a tumultuous divorce and meets an exciting new woman.
Intent to Kill
Dr. McNeil
While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on a Latin American president. They don't suspect that a trio of assassins is also waiting, for their chance to carry out a political assassination on the operating table.
Vikings, Os Conquistadores
Father Godwin
Einar e Eric são meio-irmãos, um é o príncipe e herdeiro do trono inglês; o outro é o filho bastardo de um selvagem viking. Até que em um ataque surpresa, os Vikings sequestram a princesa Morgana, o que faz Einar e Eric tentarem recuperá-la.
Chase a Crooked Shadow
Chandler Bridson
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
Davy
Sir Giles Manning
The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own ? The last comedy to be produced at Ealing Studios.
Hidden Fear
Hartman
A U.S. lawman busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder.
High Tide at Noon
Stephen MacKenzie
After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -- the rebel (Patrick McGoohan), the steadfast friend (Michael Craig) and the poetry-quoting newcomer (William Sylvester). As the local lobster supply dwindles due to overfishing, the island's inhabitants encounter economic difficulties.
O Céu ao Seu Alcance
Mr. Joyce
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
Alias John Preston
Dr. Peter Walton
A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into local life, is married and is serving on the board of the local hospital. Everything seems to be going well for him until a newly appointed consultant psychiatrist shows up and starts asking some probing questions.
The Night My Number Came Up
Owen Robertson
At a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a Royal Navy officer is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshal Hardie who is due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as Hardie arrives at the airport he discovers that the Liberator has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the dream may be coming true and he is destined to die.
The Divided Heart
Chief Justice
During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's adopted by a childless couple. The adoptive parents' happiness is shattered when Inga reappears and insists on custody of her son.
A Fera Adormecida
Dr. Clive Esmond
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
Europa 51
George Girard
Irene Girard é a esposa de um embaixador e gosta de viver no luxo. Após a morte dramática de seu filho, ela sente-se culpada de tê-lo negligenciado e se sente compelida a ajudar as pessoas em necessidade que cruzam seu caminho. Um dia, ela oferece abrigo a um homem que está fugindo da justiça, e ela mesma acaba sendo presa. O marido, por uma questão de decoro social, providencia para um médico declará-la louca. Irene se livra de uma prisão para entrar em outra, e para refletir sobre o tipo de sociedade que ela vive.
Paula
Dr. Clifford Frazer
A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret. Overcome with guilt and remorse, she seeks out the child in the hospital and attempts to help him regain his speech, even though, if successful, it might mean he will implicate her for the crime.
TERRA DO INFERNO
Will Isham
Owen Merrit (Randolph Scott), um pequeno fazendeiro, está sendo ameaçado pelo poderoso vizinho Will Isham. Quando Will contrata atiradores para intimidá-lo, Owen precisa defender a si mesmo e a sua propriedade por meio da violência.
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Dr. Curtis Lanyon
The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
O Filho Perdido
Vincent Mailer
Brandy Kirby and crooked Lawyer Vincent Mailer plan to rob William and Maida McIntyre by producing a convincing double for their long-lost son. Brandy charms gambler Lefty Farrell into impersonating the missing son.
Saturday's Hero
Professor Megroth
A talented high school football player encounters trouble in a college program.
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Tom Salter
A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.
Tóquio Joe
Mark Landis
Um americano retorna a Tóquio e tenta resgatar sua vida anterior à Segunda Guerra Mundial, mas se vê encurralado entre criminosos e autoridades. Joe Barrett retorna a Tóquio após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, onde ele tinha um bar, o Tokyo Joe's, e onde abandonou sua esposa Trina. Eles têm uma filha de sete anos. O barão Kimura obriga Joe a pilotar para criminosos de guerra, chantageando revelar que durante a guerra Trina fez transmissões de propaganda traiçoeira.
O Signo de Áries
Mallory St. Aubyn
A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.
The Judge Steps Out
Judge Thomas Bailey
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
The Judge Steps Out
Screenplay
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Sister Kenny
Screenplay
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Sister Kenny
Dr. McDonnell
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.
Over 21
Max W. Wharton
A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army.
Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations.
None Shall Escape
Wilhelm Grimm
Through flashbacks, the story of a Nazi war criminal is exposed.
Commandos Strike at Dawn
German Captain
A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.
This Above All
Rector
In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
O Lobo do Mar
Humphrey Van Weyden
Shipwrecked fugitives try to escape a brutal sea captain who's losing his mind.
Cheer Boys Cheer
Saunders
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
As Quatro Penas Brancas
Bit Part
Um tímido oficial do exército britânico renuncia à seu posto na véspera de seu destacamento ser enviado contra rebeldes egípcios. Chamando-o de covarde, sua namorada e três amigos oficiais lhe dão 4 penas brancas como símbolo de seu ato. Então o oficial britânico procura resgatar sua honra, ajudando secretamente seus antigos camaradas. Quando sua unidade é vencida e capturada pelos rebeldes, nosso herói, disfarçado de árabe, encontra uma oportunidade de tentar libertar cada um deles e assim poder devolver as 'penas' da covardia recebidas de seus antigos camaradas.
The Gaunt Stranger
Dr Anthony Lomond
A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
Rembrandt
Ludwick’s Assistant (uncredited)
This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends his patrons. By 1656, he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the company of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he's unable to marry. Their relationship brings ostracism but also some measure of happiness. The final scenes find him in his last year, 1669, physically enfeebled but his spirit undimmed.