Esmond Knight
Acting
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.
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Filmography of
Esmond Knight
Second Elder
... 1987
Osborne
... 1984
Judge
... 1984
Priam
... 1981
Lepidus
... 1981
Old Capulet
... 1978
Old Defender
... 1976
Doctor
... 1972
Kingston
... 1969
Dom Issigri
... 1969
Ballad Singer
... 1969
Old Judge
... 1965
Arthur Baden
... 1960
Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
... 1960
Stricker
... 1958
Hoffman
... 1957
High Priest
... 1956
Prof. Newman
... 1953
Evans the Milk
... 1952
The Father
... 1951
Abel Woodus
... 1950
Bernardo
... 1948
Livy
... 1948
Dantos
... 1947
Dr. Bryerly
... 1947
Camp Announcer
... 1947
The Old General
... 1947
Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
... 1944
Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
... 1944
David Davies
... 1944
Von Schiffer
... 1943
Vicar's Son
... 1941
Mr. Pidgeon
... 1940
Raille
... 1939
Guy Rogers
... 1938
Michael
... 1938
Dennis Melross
... 1937
Pavo Collin
... 1936
Cadet Silvio
... 1936
Pete Borden
... 1935
Tony Mardon
... 1935
Geoffrey Dawson
... 1934
Johann Strauss, the Younger
... 1934
Eddie Martin
... 1933
John Tring
... 1931
Philip Connor
... 1931
John Lenley
... 1931
Davy Summers
... 1931
Radio operator
... 1928