Esmond Knight
Acting • Born 1906-05-04 – Died 1987-02-23
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.
Filmography
99 credits
Peeping Tom
Movie • 1960
Arthur Baden
Anne of the Thousand Days
Movie • 1969
Kingston
Hamlet
Movie • 1948
Bernardo
The Element of Crime
Movie • 1984
Osborne
Decision at Midnight
Movie • 1963
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Movie • 1965
Old Judge
Crime Unlimited
Movie • 1935
Pete Borden
The Parachute
Movie • 1968
Helmut
The River
Movie • 1951
The Father
Black Narcissus
Movie • 1947
The Old General
Sink the Bismarck!
Movie • 1960
Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
The Red Shoes
Movie • 1948
Livy
The Blue Squadron
Movie • 1934
Captain Carlo Banti
Uncle Silas
Movie • 1947
Dr. Bryerly
Waltzes from Vienna
Movie • 1934
Johann Strauss, the Younger
Gone to Earth
Movie • 1950
Abel Woodus
Contraband
Movie • 1940
Mr. Pidgeon
The Silver Fleet
Movie • 1943
Von Schiffer
The Man in the Iron Mask
Movie • 1977
Armand
Yellow Dog
Movie • 1973
Mundt
Dandy Dick
Movie • 1935
Tony Mardon
Black Roses
Movie • 1936
Pavo Collin
The Vicar of Bray
Movie • 1937
Dennis Melross
This England
Movie • 1941
Vicar's Son
Weddings Are Wonderful
Movie • 1938
Guy Rogers
The End of the River
Movie • 1947
Dantos
Holiday Camp
Movie • 1947
Camp Announcer
Girls Will Be Boys
Movie • 1934
Geoffrey Dawson
A Canterbury Tale
Movie • 1944
Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Movie • 1939
Raille
Girdle of Gold
Movie • 1952
Evans the Milk
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
Movie • 1972
Doctor
The Winter's Tale
Movie • 1968
Camillo
Pagliacci
Movie • 1936
Cadet Silvio
The Bermondsey Kid
Movie • 1933
Eddie Martin
Battle of the V-1
Movie • 1958
Stricker
Henry V
Movie • 1944
Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
Where's Jack?
Movie • 1969
Ballad Singer
Someday
Movie • 1935
Curly Blake
Father and Son
Movie • 1935
Michael Bolton
The Halfway House
Movie • 1944
David Davies
The Blue Peter
Movie • 1928
Radio operator
Troilus & Cressida
Movie • 1981
Priam
77 Park Lane
Movie • 1931
Philip Connor
A Voyage Round My Father
Movie • 1984
Judge
Deadlock
Movie • 1931
John Tring
The Ringer
Movie • 1931
John Lenley
Romany Love
Movie • 1931
Davy Summers
The Prince and the Showgirl
Movie • 1957
Hoffman
What Men Live By
Movie • 1938
Michael
Romeo and Juliet
Movie • 1978
Old Capulet
Robin and Marian
Movie • 1976
Old Defender
Helen of Troy
Movie • 1956
High Priest
Antony & Cleopatra
Movie • 1981
Lepidus
The Steel Key
Movie • 1953
Prof. Newman
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
Movie • 1969
Dom Issigri
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Movie • 1987
Second Elder
Drake's Venture
Movie • 1980
John Dee
Full Circle
Movie • 1953
King Lear
Movie • 1983
Old Man
Without Fear
Movie • 1951
Narrator (voice)
Elizabeth R
TV • 1971
Bishop de Quadra
Softly, Softly
TV • 1966
Z-Cars
TV • 1962
Gideon's Way
TV • 1965
Robson
The Saint
TV • 1962
Antoine Louvois
Interpol Calling
TV • 1959
Von Schriber
The Champions
TV • 1968
Minister
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
TV • 1962
The Count of Monte Cristo
TV • 1956
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1971
Captain Cutler
1990
TV • 1977
Festival
TV • 1963
Chorus
An Age of Kings
TV • 1960
My Cousin Rachel
TV • 1983
Sam Bates
Quiller
TV • 1975
General Pickford
Nicholas Nickleby
TV • 1957
Detective
TV • 1964
Barnaby Rudge
TV • 1960
Bedtime Stories
TV • 1974
Vere Rawley
Return of the Saint
TV • 1978
Paul Hanson
Public Eye
TV • 1965
Dr. Stowe
A for Andromeda
TV • 1961
Professor Ernest Reinhart
This Is Your Life
TV • 1955
Self
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Bubnov, a Capmaker
The Spies
TV • 1966
General Loren
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Helmut
King of the River
TV • 1966
Donner
Cousin Bette
TV • 1971
General Hulot
Cousin Bette
TV • 1971
Marshal Hulot
The Invisible Man
TV • 1984
Blind Man
Fortunes of War
TV • 1987
Liversage
Sunday-Night Play
TV • 1960
Harold P. Jackman
Churchill's People
TV • 1974
Penda's Father
I, Claudius
TV • 1976
Domitius
Rebecca
TV • 1979
Coroner
Supernatural
TV • 1977
Sir Charles
Fall of Eagles
TV • 1974
General Ruzski
Wessex Tales
TV • 1973
Conjuror Trendle