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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) — Second Elder
2. Peeping Tom (1960) — Arthur Baden
3. The Red Shoes (1948) — Livy
4. Doctor Who (1963) — Dom Issigri
5. Black Narcissus (1947) — The Old General
6. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) — Old Judge
7. Hamlet (1948) — Bernardo
8. Robin and Marian (1976) — Old Defender
9. The Element of Crime (1984) — Osborne
10. The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) — Hoffman
11. I, Claudius (1976) — Domitius
12. Henry V (1944) — Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
13. The Saint (1962) — Antoine Louvois
14. Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) — Kingston
15. A Canterbury Tale (1944) — Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
16. The River (1951) — The Father
17. Sink the Bismarck! (1960) — Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
18. The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) — Armand
19. Helen of Troy (1956) — High Priest
20. Waltzes from Vienna (1934) — Johann Strauss, the Younger
21. Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) — Mr. Galbraith
22. Gone to Earth (1950) — Abel Woodus
23. The Halfway House (1944) — David Davies
24. Danger Man (1960) — Baron
25. The Champions (1968) — Minister
26. Contraband (1940) — Mr. Pidgeon
27. Elizabeth R (1971) — Bishop de Quadra
28. Uncle Silas (1947) — Dr. Bryerly
29. Fortunes of War (1987) — Liversage
30. The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972) — Doctor
31. Holiday Camp (1947) — Camp Announcer
32. The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939) — Raille
33. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971) — Captain Cutler
34. Supernatural (1977) — Sir Charles
35. The Third Man (1959) — Theodore Ratteau
36. King Lear (1983) — Old Man
37. Return of the Saint (1978) — Paul Hanson
38. Fall of Eagles (1974) — General Ruzski
39. The Invisible Man (1958) — Wilson
40. The Silver Fleet (1943) — Von Schiffer