Name: Mickey Knox
Date of Birth: 24 December 1921 Good friend of - and former brother-in-law of - writer 'Norman Mailer' (qv), Knox was married to his second wife Adele''s sister.Met 'Norman Mailer' (qv) in Hollywood in the late 1940s, the period that Mailer adapted for his novel "The Deer Park" (1954).Moved to Italy in the 1950s after he was blacklisted over his left-wing politics.Witnessed the suicide of bit-part actor 'Al Mulock' (qv) n the set of the movie _C'era una volta il West (1968)_ (qv) ("Once Upon a Time in the West"). Mulock commit... ted suicide on by jumping from a hotel, on location in Guadix, Spain. Knox, who had been hired by director 'Sergio Leone (I)' (qv) as a screenwriter, was sitting in a hotel room with production manager 'Claudio Mancini' (qv) and saw Mulock's body pass their window. Knox recalled in an interview that while Mancini put Mulock in his car to drive him to the hospital, Leone said to Mancini, "Get the costume! We need the costume!" Mulock, who had appeared as the one-armed bounty hunter in Leone's _Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966)_ (qv), was wearing the costume he wore in the movie when he made his fatal leap.'Woody Harrelson' (qv)'s character in _Natural Born Killers (1994)_ (qv) is named after Knox.Read more Mickey Knox movies (actor)
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