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
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
as Second Elder
The Red Shoes (1948)
as Livy
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965)
as Old Judge
Helen of Troy (1956)
as High Priest
Peeping Tom (1960)
as Arthur Baden
Robin and Marian (1976)
as Old Defender
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
as Kingston
Black Narcissus (1947)
as The Old General
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
as Hoffman
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
as Armand
Henry V (1944)
as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
Hamlet (1948)
as Bernardo
The River (1951)
as The Father
Romany Love (1931)
as Davy Summers
Gone to Earth (1950)
as Abel Woodus
The Element of Crime (1984)
as Osborne
Battle of the V-1 (1958)
as Stricker
This England (1941)
as Vicar's Son
Full Circle (1953)
Actor
The Silver Fleet (1943)
as Von Schiffer
Crime Unlimited (1935)
as Pete Borden
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
Romeo and Juliet (1978)
as Old Capulet
Yellow Dog (1973)
as Mundt
A Voyage Round My Father (1984)
as Judge
The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972)
as Doctor
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)
as Raille
The End of the River (1947)
as Dantos
Contraband (1940)
as Mr. Pidgeon
Without Fear (1951)
as Narrator (voice)
Where's Jack? (1969)
as Ballad Singer
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates (1969)
as Dom Issigri
The Halfway House (1944)
as David Davies
Antony & Cleopatra (1981)
as Lepidus
Decision at Midnight (1963)
as Peter Hauser
Girls Will Be Boys (1934)
as Geoffrey Dawson
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
as Johann Strauss, the Younger
What Men Live By (1938)
as Michael
Troilus & Cressida (1981)
as Priam
King Lear (1983)
as Old Man
The Winter's Tale (1968)
as Camillo
The Vicar of Bray (1937)
as Dennis Melross
77 Park Lane (1931)
as Philip Connor
Uncle Silas (1947)
as Dr. Bryerly
Drake's Venture (1980)
as John Dee
Dandy Dick (1935)
as Tony Mardon
Deadlock (1931)
as John Tring
The Steel Key (1953)
as Prof. Newman
The Blue Squadron (1934)
as Captain Carlo Banti
The Blue Peter (1928)
as Radio operator
Holiday Camp (1947)
as Camp Announcer
Pagliacci (1936)
as Cadet Silvio
The Parachute (1968)
as Helmut
Father and Son (1935)
as Michael Bolton
Girdle of Gold (1952)
as Evans the Milk
Someday (1935)
as Curly Blake
Black Roses (1936)
as Pavo Collin
Weddings Are Wonderful (1938)
as Guy Rogers
The Ringer (1931)
as John Lenley
The Bermondsey Kid (1933)
as Eddie Martin