Joseph William Knowland was an actor from Oakland, California.
15 Facts About Joe Knowland
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Joe Knowland has acted in four feature films, a short film, three made-for-TV movies and two television episodes.
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Joe Knowland was raised in Piedmont, a prosperous city surrounded by Oakland.
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In 1953, Joe Knowland graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Joe Knowland joined The Oakland Tribune in 1954 as a cub reporter, and trained in all aspects of running the enterprise.
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Joe Knowland was named the vice president and general manager of the paper.
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In 1974, a hundred years after the founding of the newspaper, and following the suicide of his father, Joe Knowland became editor and publisher.
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Joe Knowland earned the "Publisher of the Year" award from the California Press Association just one year later.
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In 1977, Joe Knowland's relatives sold the newspaper in a "bitter family squabble" to Combined Communications Corporation, owned by Arizona-based outdoor sign mogul Karl Eller.
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At the age of 47, Joe Knowland left the firm to embark on an acting and modeling career.
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Joe Knowland modeled for print advertisements and appeared in television commercials.
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Joe Knowland appeared as the antique store clerk in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home who bought the broken eye glasses Dr McCoy gave Admiral Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan for one hundred dollars.
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In 2006, veteran columnist Gerald Nachman observed that, in the 1970s, Joe Knowland's heart was in performing onstage at the Bohemian Club, not in publishing a newspaper.
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In October 1982, Joe Knowland played two characters, archenemy supervillain Professor Moriarty and elder brother Mycroft Holmes, in a Bohemian Club production entitled An Appointment with Sherlock Holmes.
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Joe Knowland died on March 14,2019, at the age of 88.