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