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Elyse Knox (1917–2012)

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Elyse Knox, the actress best known for starring in The Mummy's Tomb and for being Heisman Award-winner Tom Harmon s wife and Mark Harmon's mother, was born Elsie Lillian Kornbrath on December 14, 1917 in Hartford, Connecticut. Knox's first love wasn't acting but art: she began painting in oils during high school... See full bio »

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Elsie Lillian Kornbrath
in Hartford, Connecticut, USA

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(age 94) in Los Angeles, California, USA
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1949 There's a Girl in My Heart
Claire Adamson
 
1949 Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
Anne Howe
 
1949 Forgotten Women
Kate Allison
 
1948 Joe Palooka in Winner Take All
Anne Howe
 
1948 I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes
Ann Quinn
 
1948 Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Anne Howe
 
1947 Linda Be Good
Linda Prentiss
 
1947 Joe Palooka in the Knockout
Anne Howe
 
1947 Black Gold
Ruth Frazer
 
1946 Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
Betty Allen
 
1946 Gentleman Joe Palooka
Anne Howe
 
1946 Joe Palooka, Champ
Anne Howe
 
1944 Army Wives
Jerry Van Dyke
 
1944 A Wave, a WAC and a Marine
Marian
 
1944 Moonlight and Cactus
Louise Ferguson
 
1944 Follow the Boys
Elyse Knox (uncredited)
 
1943 Hi'ya, Sailor
Pat Rogers
 
1943 So's Your Uncle
Patricia Williams
 
1943 Hit the Ice
Nurse Peggy Osborne
 
1943 Mister Big
Alice Taswell
 
1943 Don Winslow of the Coast Guard
Mercedes Colby
 
1943 Keep 'Em Slugging
Suzanne
 
1942 Arabian Nights
Slave Girl (uncredited)
 
1942 The Mummy's Tomb
Isobel Evans
 
1942 Top Sergeant
Helen Gray
 
1942 Hay Foot
Betty Barkley
 
1941 Miss Polly
Barbara Snodgrass
 
1941 All-American Co-Ed
Co-ed (uncredited)
 
1941 Tanks a Million
Jeannie
 
1941 Sheriff of Tombstone
Mary Carson
 
1941 Footlight Fever
Eileen Drake
 
1940 Youth Will Be Served
Pamela
 
1940 Yesterday's Heroes
Co-ed (uncredited)
 
1940 Girl from Avenue A
Angela
 
1940 Girl in 313
Judith Wilson
 
1940 Lillian Russell
Lillian Russell's Sister
 
1940 Star Dust
College Girl (uncredited)
 
1940 Free, Blonde and 21
Marjorie
 
1937 Wake Up and Live
Nurse (uncredited)
 
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1940 Lillian Russell (performer: "Brighten the Corner Where You Are" 1913 - uncredited)
 
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1955 Place the Face (TV series)
Herself
– Episode dated 19 July 1955 (1955) … Herself
 
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1999 Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed (video documentary short)
Isobel Evans
 
1953 I Was a Burlesque Queen
Linda Prentiss
 

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(August 2, 1955) appeared on the daytime television series "It Pays to Be Married" with husband Tom Harmon.

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Besides being married to a football star, Tom Harmon, her brother, Ron Knox, played quarterback for the Chicago Bears, and her son, Mark Harmon, was a star quarterback at UCLA. See more »

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