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About Joseph Knox

Alexander Knox (16 January 1907 – 25 April 1995) was a Canadian actor and writer. He appeared in over 100 film, television, and theatrical productions over a career spanning from the 1920s until the late 1980s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for his performance as Woodrow Wilson in the biopic Wilson (1944). However, his career in the United States was hampered by McCarthyism, and he spent the rest of his career in the United Kingdom.

Knox portrayed Control in the 1979 BBC miniseries adaptation of John le Carre's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He acted in such films as Europe '51, The Vikings, The Longest Day, The Damned, and Modesty Blaise. He often worked with director Joseph Losey, a fellow American blacklistee living in the UK.

Aside from his acting career, Knox was also an author, writing adventure novels set in the Great Lakes area during the 19th century as well as plays and detective novels.

Joseph Knox writes about Great Britain, Politics and government, Fiction, England, fiction, Detective and mystery stories, and 19th century. Their best-known work is Sirens.

On FindMyTBR we track 5 books by Joseph Knox, 4 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Imposter Syndrome : A Novel, Sirens: A Novel (Unabridged), and The Smiling Man (Aidan Waits, #2). Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.