Editing Alexander Knox (section)

==Life and career==
Knox was born in [[Strathroy-Caradoc|Strathroy, Ontario]], where his father was the minister of the Presbyterian Church. He graduated from the [[University of Western Ontario]]. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to perform on stage with the [[Boston Repertory Theatre]]. After the company folded following the stock market crash of 1929, Knox returned to London, Ontario, where, for the next two years, he worked as a reporter for ''[[Media in London, Ontario#Newspapers|The London Advertiser]]''<ref name=thomas/> before moving to London, England, where, during the 1930s, he appeared in several films. He also appeared in various roles at the Old Vic such as the Judge in [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s  ''Geneva''.  Canadian novelist [[Robertson Davies]] described his performance thus: "To this role he brought a dignity which did much to heighten the effect of the famous court-scene which makes up the third act...".<ref>Davies, Robertson, ''Peterborough Examiner'', August 22, 1940</ref> In 1939, at the Malvern Festival, he acted in Shaw's [[In Good King Charles's Golden Days]]. His own play ''Old Master'' was also staged.  He starred opposite [[Jessica Tandy]] in the 1940 Broadway production of ''[[Jupiter Laughs]]'' and as Friar Laurence in [[Romeo and Juliet]] with [[Vivien Leigh]] and [[Laurence Olivier]]. Then in 1944, he was chosen by [[Darryl F. Zanuck]] to star in ''[[Wilson (1944 film)|Wilson]]'' (1944), the biographical film about American President [[Woodrow Wilson]], for which he won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Actor#1940s|Academy Award for Best Actor]]. However, during the [[McCarthy Era]], his liberal views and work with the [[Committee for the First Amendment]] hurt his career, but he was not [[Hollywood blacklist|blacklisted]],<ref name="Red Alert">{{cite book|last1=Slide|first1=Anthony|title=Actors on red alert : career interviews with five actors and actresses affected by the blacklist|url=https://archive.org/details/actorsonredalert0000slid|url-access=registration|date=1999|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham, Md. [u.a.]|isbn=978-0810836495|pages=[https://archive.org/details/actorsonredalert0000slid/page/117 117–127]}}</ref> and he returned to Britain.

[[File:Alexander Knox in Paula (1952) trailer.jpg|thumb|right|Knox in ''[[Paula (1952 film)|Paula]]'' (1952).]]

Knox had major roles in ''[[The Sea Wolf (1941 film)|The Sea Wolf]]'' (1941), ''[[None Shall Escape]]'' (1944), ''[[Over 21]]'' (1945), ''[[Sister Kenny]]'' (1946), ''[[Man In The Saddle]]'' (1951), ''[[Paula (1952 film)|Paula]]'' (1952), ''[[Europa '51]]'' (1952), and ''[[The Vikings (film)|The Vikings]]'' (1958), as well as supporting roles late in his career, such as in ''[[The Damned (1963 film)|The Damned]]'' (1963), ''[[Modesty Blaise (1966 film)|Modesty Blaise]]'' (1966), ''[[Nicholas and Alexandra]]'' (1971), ''[[Joshua Then and Now (film)|Joshua Then and Now]]'' (1985; his last film role) and the miniseries ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV series)|Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]''.

He depicted Governor Hudson Inverest in "The Latin Touch", the second episode of the first season of ''[[The Saint (TV series)|The Saint]]'' in 1962.

=== Writing ===
He wrote several adventure novels: ''Bride of Quietness'' (1933), ''[[Night of the White Bear]]'' (1971), ''[[The Enemy I Kill]]'' (1972; republished as ''Totem Dream'' in 1973), ''[[Raider's Moon]]'', and ''[[The Kidnapped Surgeon]]''. He also wrote plays and at least three detective novels under a pseudonym before 1945.<ref name="thomas">Clara Thomas, ''Canadian Novelists 1920-1945'', Toronto: Longmans, Green & Company, 1946, p. 75. Thomas notes, "he refuses to divulge" his pen name.</ref>