Esmond Knight
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Esmond Penington Knight (4 May 1906 – 23 February 1987) was an English actor. He was an accomplished actor with a career spanning over half a century. For much of his career Esmond Knight was virtually blind. He had been badly injured in 1941 whilst on active service on board HMS Prince of Wales when she fought the Bismarck at the Battle of the Denmark Strait, and remained totally blind for two years, though he later regained some sight in his right eye. During this period, Esmond dictated an early autobiography to his secretary, Annabella Cloudsley, Seeking The Bubble (Hutchinson & Co. 1943). He played the captain of the HMS Prince of Wales in the 1960 movie Sink the Bismarck! He starred as Professor Ernest Reinhart in the 1961 British science fiction television series, A for Andromeda, alongside Patricia Kneale and Peter Halliday. His daughter is the actress Rosalind Knight. Knight died of a heart attack. He was cremated. Description above from the Wikipedia article Esmond Knight, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Helen of Troy (1956)
as High Priest
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
as Second Elder
Peeping Tom (1960)
as Arthur Baden
The Red Shoes (1948)
as Livy
The River (1951)
as The Father
Black Narcissus (1947)
as The Old General
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
as Armand
Full Circle (1953)
Actor
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
as Old Judge
Robin and Marian (1976)
as Old Defender
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
Romany Love (1931)
as Davy Summers
This England (1941)
as Vicar's Son
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
as Hoffman
Hamlet (1948)
as Bernardo
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
as Kingston
Without Fear (1951)
as Narrator (voice)
Henry V (1944)
as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
Crime Unlimited (1935)
as Pete Borden
Gone to Earth (1950)
as Abel Woodus
Where's Jack? (1969)
as Ballad Singer
The Element of Crime (1984)
as Osborne
Battle of the V-1 (1958)
as Stricker
Drake's Venture (1980)
as John Dee
The Blue Peter (1928)
as Radio operator
Contraband (1940)
as Mr. Pidgeon
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
as Johann Strauss, the Younger
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
The Halfway House (1944)
as David Davies
The Silver Fleet (1943)
as Von Schiffer
A Voyage Round My Father (1984)
as Judge
Romeo and Juliet (1978)
as Old Capulet
Troilus & Cressida (1981)
as Priam
Antony & Cleopatra (1981)
as Lepidus
Holiday Camp (1947)
as Camp Announcer
King Lear (1983)
as Old Man
The Blue Squadron (1934)
as Captain Carlo Banti
77 Park Lane (1931)
as Philip Connor
Uncle Silas (1947)
as Dr. Bryerly
The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972)
as Doctor
The Winter's Tale (1968)
as Camillo
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)
as Raille
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates (1969)
as Dom Issigri
The End of the River (1947)
as Dantos
Yellow Dog (1973)
as Mundt
The Ringer (1931)
as John Lenley
What Men Live By (1938)
as Michael
The Steel Key (1953)
as Prof. Newman
Girls Will Be Boys (1934)
as Geoffrey Dawson
The Parachute (1968)
as Helmut
Someday (1935)
as Curly Blake
Decision at Midnight (1963)
as Peter Hauser
The Vicar of Bray (1937)
as Dennis Melross
Pagliacci (1936)
as Cadet Silvio
Father and Son (1935)
as Michael Bolton
Weddings Are Wonderful (1938)
as Guy Rogers
Dandy Dick (1935)
as Tony Mardon
Girdle of Gold (1952)
as Evans the Milk
Black Roses (1936)
as Pavo Collin
Deadlock (1931)
as John Tring
The Bermondsey Kid (1933)
as Eddie Martin