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.
Movie | Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | Second Elder | 1987-07-24 |
Series | Fortunes of War | Liversage | 1987-10-11 |
Movie | A Voyage Round My Father | Judge | 1984-04-19 |
Movie | The Element of Crime | Osborne | 1984-05-14 |
Series | My Cousin Rachel | Unknown | 1983-03-07 |
Movie | Antony & Cleopatra | Lepidus | 1981-05-08 |
Movie | Troilus & Cressida | Priam | 1981-11-07 |
Movie | Romeo & Juliet | Old Capulet | 1978-12-03 |
Series | BBC Television Shakespeare | Unknown | 1978-12-03 |
Movie | The Man in the Iron Mask | Armand | 1977-07-17 |
Series | 1990 | Unknown | 1977-09-18 |
Movie | Robin and Marian | Old Defender | 1976-03-11 |
Series | I, Claudius | Unknown | 1976-09-20 |
Series | Quiller | Unknown | 1975-08-29 |
Movie | Yellow Dog | Mundt | 1973-08-11 |
Movie | The Boy Who Turned Yellow | Doctor | 1972-09-16 |
Series | Cousin Bette | General Hulot | 1971-08-07 |
Series | Elizabeth R | Unknown | 1971-02-17 |
Series | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | Unknown | 1971-09-20 |
Movie | Where's Jack? | Ballad Singer | 1969-04-01 |
Movie | Doctor Who: The Space Pirates | Dom Issigri | 1969-04-12 |
Movie | Anne of the Thousand Days | Kingston | 1969-12-18 |
Movie | The Winter's Tale | Camillo | 1968-05-27 |
Series | The Champions | Unknown | 1968-09-25 |
Series | King of the River | Unknown | 1966-07-06 |
Series | Softly, Softly | Unknown | 1966-01-05 |
Series | Thirty-Minute Theatre | Unknown | 1965-10-07 |
Series | Gideon's Way | Unknown | 1965-03-18 |
Series | BBC Play of the Month | Unknown | 1965-10-19 |
Movie | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Old Judge | 1965-12-16 |
Series | Detective | Unknown | 1964-03-30 |
Movie | Decision at Midnight | 1963-12-12 | |
Series | Z-Cars | Unknown | 1962-01-02 |
Series | The Saint | Unknown | 1962-10-04 |
Series | Dr. Finlay's Casebook | Unknown | 1962-08-16 |
Series | A for Andromeda | Professor Ernest Reinhart | 1961-10-03 |
Movie | Sink the Bismarck! | Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales' | 1960-02-11 |
Series | An Age of Kings | Unknown | 1960-04-28 |
Movie | Peeping Tom | Arthur Baden | 1960-05-16 |
Series | Barnaby Rudge | Unknown | 1960-09-30 |
Movie | Battle of the V-1 | Stricker | 1958-01-01 |
Movie | The Prince and the Showgirl | Hoffman | 1957-06-13 |
Series | Nicholas Nickleby | Unknown | 1957-10-18 |
Series | The Count of Monte Cristo | Unknown | 1956-02-20 |
Movie | Helen of Troy | High Priest | 1956-01-26 |
Movie | The Steel Key | Prof. Newman | 1953-05-01 |
Movie | Girdle of Gold | Evans the Milk | 1952-01-01 |
Movie | The River | The Father | 1951-09-10 |
Movie | Gone to Earth | Abel Woodus | 1950-11-06 |
Movie | The Red Shoes | Livy | 1948-09-06 |
Movie | Hamlet | Bernardo | 1948-12-10 |
Movie | Black Narcissus | The Old General | 1947-05-26 |
Movie | Holiday Camp | Camp Announcer | 1947-08-05 |
Movie | The End of the River | Dantos | 1947-12-01 |
Movie | Uncle Silas | Dr. Bryerly | 1947-10-08 |
Movie | A Canterbury Tale | Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot | 1944-08-21 |
Movie | The Halfway House | David Davies | 1944-02-01 |
Movie | Henry V | Fluellen - Captain in the English Army | 1944-11-24 |
Movie | The Silver Fleet | Von Schiffer | 1943-03-15 |
Movie | This England | Vicar's Son | 1941-07-22 |
Movie | Contraband | Mr. Pidgeon | 1940-05-11 |
Movie | The Arsenal Stadium Mystery | Raille | 1939-11-01 |
Movie | What Men Live By | Michael | 1938-09-01 |
Movie | Weddings Are Wonderful | Guy Rogers | 1938-10-04 |
Movie | The Vicar of Bray | Dennis Melross | 1937-05-09 |
Movie | Pagliacci | Cadet Silvio | 1936-12-11 |
Movie | Black Roses | Pavo Collin | 1936-12-13 |
Movie | Dandy Dick | Tony Mardon | 1935-03-01 |
Movie | Crime Unlimited | Pete Borden | 1935-08-01 |
Movie | The Blue Squadron | 1934-12-12 | |
Movie | Waltzes from Vienna | Johann Strauss, the Younger | 1934-03-15 |
Movie | Girls Will Be Boys | Geoffrey Dawson | 1934-10-29 |
Movie | The Bermondsey Kid | Eddie Martin | 1933-11-01 |
Movie | Romany Love | Davy Summers | 1931-02-24 |
Movie | The Ringer | John Lenley | 1931-03-31 |
Movie | Deadlock | John Tring | 1931-09-04 |
Movie | 77 Park Lane | Philip Connor | 1931-07-02 |
Movie | The Blue Peter | Radio operator | 1928-09-01 |