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Alexander Knox

Canadian actor and author of adventure novels (1907-1995)

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The Life of Wesley
Raider's Moon
Thirty Years' Correspondence Between John Jebb [... ] and Alexander Knox; Volume 2
Glossary of Geographical and Topographical Terms and of Words of Frequent Occurrences
On the Existing State of Our Knowledge of Vaccination and Revaccination As Preventive of Small Pox

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Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1933-07-20
Active to: 1999-02-14

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Total plays: 88

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5 total works indexed

STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,579x
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,509x
ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,127x
SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,083x
QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,525x

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Quotes

“There was no shame, but only graciousness, sun-soaked air, and, at the last, a peace such as the moss knows in the deepening corridors of trees.”
“The high Arctic had more snow that year than anyone remembered.”
“He whispered steadily along in this pearly place, but though his steps were steady, a tension had seized him. It was a quivering, high-note vibration rather than a trembling. His flesh did not shake: inside his tightened skin he hummed, making no sound — a silent scream.”
“Like a revelation it came to him that it was far, far better to be an Eskimo; that these people didn't know their arse from a hole in the ground, that they had no business here, that his people had lived here and thrived for thousands of years and that they were the People. They were the People and all these were strangers with the habits of children, and they sulked like children because that's what they were. Old Ways were best!”
“Four beautiful maids Were all in love with me. They said that I could have but one So I went off to sea.”
“Everything about the girl was like a round of yeasty dough. It cried out to be smoothed or pressed or moulded or lifted or patted or stroked or gathered up or folded.”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1907-01-16 ) 16 January 1907, Strathroy , Ontario , Canada
Died: 25 April 1995 (1995-04-25) (aged 88), Berwick-upon-Tweed , Northumberland , England
Occupations: Actor author
Years active: 1931–1986
Spouse: Doris Nolan ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1944 )

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Article

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.