Known For
Acting
Born
May 04, 1906
Died
Feb 23, 1987
Place of Birth
East Sheen, Surrey, England
Credits
113 titles
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Esmond Knight, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Fortunes of War
Liversage
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Second Elder
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
Mr. Galbraith
The Invisible Man
Blind Man
The Element of Crime
Osborne
A Voyage Round My Father
Judge
King Lear
Old Man
My Cousin Rachel
Sam Bates
Fame Is the Spur
Old Etchells
Troilus & Cressida
Priam
Antony & Cleopatra
Lepidus
Drake's Venture
John Dee
Rebecca
Coroner
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Old Capulet
Romeo and Juliet
Old Capulet
Return of the Saint
Paul Hanson
1990
Mitchell
The Man in the Iron Mask
Armand
Supernatural
Sir Charles
I, Claudius
Domitius
Robin and Marian
Old Defender
Quiller
General Pickford
Churchill's People
Penda's Father
Fall of Eagles
General Ruzski
Bedtime Stories
Vere Rawley
Wessex Tales
Conjuror Trendle
Yellow Dog
Mundt
Arthur of the Britons
Athel
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
Doctor
New Scotland Yard
General Travers
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Captain Cutler
Cousin Bette
General Hulot
Elizabeth R
Bishop de Quadra
Anne of the Thousand Days
Kingston
Softly Softly: Task Force
Mr. Justice Ruddy
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
Dom Issigri
Where's Jack?
Ballad Singer
The Champions
Minister
The Winter's Tale
Camillo
The Parachute
Helmut
King of the River
Donner
Lord Raingo
Sid Jenkin
The Spies
General Loren
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Old Judge
BBC Play of the Month
Helmut
Thirty-Minute Theatre
President
The Troubleshooters
Foss
Gideon's Way
Robson
Public Eye
Dr. Stowe
Detective
Commodore Rupert Gill