Esmond Knight
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1906-05-04
Day of Death
1987-02-23 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
East Sheen, Surrey, England
Esmond Knight
Biography
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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Known For
Acting
(1987)
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Second Elder
(1984)
The Element of Crime
as Osborne
(1984)
A Voyage Round My Father
as Judge
(1981)
Troilus & Cressida
as Priam
(1981)
Antony & Cleopatra
as Lepidus
(1980)
Drake's Venture
as John Dee
(1978)
Romeo and Juliet
as Old Capulet
(1977)
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Armand
(1976)
Robin and Marian
as Old Defender
(1973)
Yellow Dog
as Mundt
(1972)
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
as Doctor
(1969)
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Kingston
(1969)
Where's Jack?
as Ballad Singer
(1969)
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
as Dom Issigri
(1968)
The Winter's Tale
as Camillo
(1968)
The Parachute
as Helmut
(1965)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
as Old Judge
(1963)
(1960)
Peeping Tom
as Arthur Baden
(1960)
Sink the Bismarck!
as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
(1958)
Battle of the V-1
as Stricker
(1957)
The Prince and the Showgirl
as Hoffman
(1956)
Helen of Troy
as High Priest
(1953)
The Steel Key
as Prof. Newman
(1953)
(1952)
Girdle of Gold
as Evans the Milk
(1951)
The River
as The Father
(1950)
Gone to Earth
as Abel Woodus
(1948)
The Red Shoes
as Livy
(1948)
Hamlet
as Bernardo
(1947)
Black Narcissus
as The Old General
(1947)
Holiday Camp
as Camp Announcer
(1947)
The End of the River
as Dantos
(1947)
Uncle Silas
as Dr. Bryerly
(1944)
Henry V
as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
(1944)
A Canterbury Tale
as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
(1944)
The Halfway House
as David Davies
(1943)
The Silver Fleet
as Von Schiffer
(1941)
This England
as Vicar's Son
(1940)
Contraband
as Mr. Pidgeon
(1939)
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
as Raille
(1938)
What Men Live By
as Michael
(1938)
Weddings Are Wonderful
as Guy Rogers
(1937)
The Vicar of Bray
as Dennis Melross
(1936)
Black Roses
as Pavo Collin
(1936)
Pagliacci
as Cadet Silvio
(1935)
Dandy Dick
as Tony Mardon
(1935)
Crime Unlimited
as Pete Borden
(1935)
Someday
as Curly Blake
(1935)
Father and Son
as Michael Bolton
(1934)
Waltzes from Vienna
as Johann Strauss, the Younger
(1934)
Girls Will Be Boys
as Geoffrey Dawson
(1934)
(1933)
The Bermondsey Kid
as Eddie Martin
(1931)
Deadlock
as John Tring
(1931)
The Ringer
as John Lenley
(1931)
77 Park Lane
as Philip Connor
(1931)
Romany Love
as Davy Summers
(1928)
The Blue Peter
as Radio operator
Crew
(1955)
The Dark Avenger
Dialogue Coach