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Robert Gordon Knuckle (born February 15, 1935) is a best-selling Canadian author, actor and playwright. He is member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada. Knuckle was an educator for thirty-five years before he started writing full-time in 1992. He is an ACTRA award-winning author of nine books and two booklets. Most of his books are about true crime and/or tales of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He has also written for the stage, television, radio, and cinema. Seven of his stage plays have been produced at major venues in Canada, USA, and in Europe, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He is a contributing researcher with Encyclopedia Titanica, specializing in Canada's role in retrieving the Titanic bodies from the sea and their burials in three Halifax graveyards. Knuckle is also a prolific public speaker who has addressed over 200 service clubs. His topics include presentations about his books and plays and include a power-point presentation on "Canada and the Titanic" which deals with the aftermath of the Titanic tragedy. ==Education and early career== Robert acted and wrote sports columns in high school and university. After graduating from the University of Windsor, he earned his M. Ed. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He then pursued a lengthy career in education as an English and Latin teacher and high school administrator in Hamilton, Ontario. He also coached basketball and football in several high schools and at McMaster University in Hamilton. Upon retiring from education he became the general manager of the Hamilton Skyhawks of the World Basketball League. When that league folded in 1992, Knuckle began to write full-time. In 1984, while engaged as a vice-principal, he and his writing partner Gordon Carruth, a Hamilton Secondary School principal, wrote a play about the life of fabled National Football League (NFL) coach Vince Lombardi entitled ''I Am Not a Legend''. It became very successful playing in Hamilton; Toronto; Windsor; Coventry, England; Edinburgh, Scotland; Lahr, Germany and Green Bay, Wisconsin. ''I Am Not a Legend'' was also televised and aired on ESPN in the USA. Knuckle and Carruth also adapted their ''Legend'' script for CBC Radio for which they both won ACTRA Awards for writing. In all these various productions of ''Legend'' Knuckle played the role of Vince Lombardi. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Knuckle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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