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Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 4, 1906
Died
February 23, 1987
Place of Birth
East Sheen, Surrey, England
Also Known As
- Esmond Penington Knight
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Esmond Knight
0.8 Popularity
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
6.1
Liversage
Fortunes of War
1987
4.6
Second Elder
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
7.0
Blind Man
The Invisible Man
1984
6.4
Osborne
The Element of Crime
1984
7.6
Judge
A Voyage Round My Father
1984
6.5
Old Man
King Lear
1983
6.0
Sam Bates
My Cousin Rachel
1983
8.0
Priam
Troilus & Cressida
1981
6.3
Lepidus
Antony & Cleopatra
1981
5.5
John Dee
Drake's Venture
1980
Credits
Fortunes of War
as Liversage
1987
6.1
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Second Elder
1987
4.6
The Invisible Man
as Blind Man
1984
7.0
The Element of Crime
as Osborne
1984
6.4
A Voyage Round My Father
as Judge
1984
7.6
King Lear
as Old Man
1983
6.5
My Cousin Rachel
as Sam Bates
1983
6.0
Troilus & Cressida
as Priam
1981
8.0
Antony & Cleopatra
as Lepidus
1981
6.3
Drake's Venture
as John Dee
1980
5.5
Romeo and Juliet
as Old Capulet
1978
7.3
Return of the Saint
as Paul Hanson
1978
7.0
1990
1977
6.0
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Armand
1977
6.3
I, Claudius
as Domitius
1976
7.8
Robin and Marian
as Old Defender
1976
6.3
🎬
Quiller
as General Pickford
1975
0.0
Churchill's People
as Penda's Father
1974
1.0
🎬
Bedtime Stories
as Vere Rawley
1974
0.0
Wessex Tales
as Conjuror Trendle
1973
6.0
Yellow Dog
as Mundt
1973
4.2
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
as Doctor
1972
5.4
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Captain Cutler
1971
7.4
Cousin Bette
as General Hulot
1971
2.7
Cousin Bette
as Marshal Hulot
1971
2.7
Elizabeth R
as Bishop de Quadra
1971
7.4
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Kingston
1969
7.1
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
as Dom Issigri
1969
5.4
Where's Jack?
as Ballad Singer
1969
7.2
The Champions
as Minister
1968
6.2
The Winter's Tale
as Camillo
1968
0.0
The Parachute
as Helmut
1968
0.0
🎬
King of the River
as Donner
1966
0.0
Softly, Softly
1966
5.0
🎬
The Spies
as General Loren
1966
0.0
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
as Old Judge
1965
7.1
BBC Play of the Month
as Helmut
1965
5.0
Gideon's Way
as Robson
1965
6.8
Public Eye
as Dr. Stowe
1965
7.8
Detective
1964
0.0
🎬
Decision at Midnight
1963
6.0
🎬
Festival
as Chorus
1963
8.0
The Saint
as Antoine Louvois
1962
7.4
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1962
6.0
Z-Cars
1962
7.0
A for Andromeda
as Professor Ernest Reinhart
1961
5.0
Barnaby Rudge
1960
5.0
🎬
Sunday-Night Play
as Harold P. Jackman
1960
0.0
Peeping Tom
as Arthur Baden
1960
7.4
An Age of Kings
1960
4.7
Sink the Bismarck!
as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
1960
6.8
Interpol Calling
as Von Schriber
1959
6.7
Battle of the V-1
as Stricker
1958
4.5
🎬
Nicholas Nickleby
1957
0.0
The Prince and the Showgirl
as Hoffman
1957
6.3
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956
4.4
Helen of Troy
as High Priest
1956
6.2
This Is Your Life
as Self
1955
6.4
🎬
Full Circle
1953
0.0
The Steel Key
as Prof. Newman
1953
6.1
Girdle of Gold
as Evans the Milk
1952
7.7
The River
as The Father
1951
7.2
Gone to Earth
as Abel Woodus
1950
6.2
Sunday Night Theatre
as Bubnov, a Capmaker
1950
3.5
Hamlet
as Bernardo
1948
7.4
The Red Shoes
as Livy
1948
8.0
The End of the River
as Dantos
1947
5.0
Uncle Silas
as Dr. Bryerly
1947
5.8
Holiday Camp
as Camp Announcer
1947
6.6
Black Narcissus
as The Old General
1947
7.5
Henry V
as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
1944
6.6
A Canterbury Tale
as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
1944
6.9
The Halfway House
as David Davies
1944
6.5
The Silver Fleet
as Von Schiffer
1943
6.0
This England
as Vicar's Son
1941
6.2
Contraband
as Mr. Pidgeon
1940
7.1
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
as Raille
1939
6.9
🎬
Weddings Are Wonderful
as Guy Rogers
1938
0.0
🎬
What Men Live By
as Michael
1938
8.0
🎬
The Vicar of Bray
as Dennis Melross
1937
5.5
🎬
Black Roses
as Pavo Collin
1936
0.0
Pagliacci
as Cadet Silvio
1936
0.0
🎬
Someday
as Curly Blake
1935
0.0
Crime Unlimited
as Pete Borden
1935
5.8
Dandy Dick
as Tony Mardon
1935
5.8
🎬
Father and Son
as Michael Bolton
1935
0.0
🎬
The Blue Squadron
as Captain Carlo Banti
1934
0.0
Girls Will Be Boys
as Geoffrey Dawson
1934
4.3
Waltzes from Vienna
as Johann Strauss, the Younger
1934
5.3
🎬
The Bermondsey Kid
as Eddie Martin
1933
0.0
Deadlock
as John Tring
1931
0.0
77 Park Lane
as Philip Connor
1931
0.0
🎬
The Ringer
as John Lenley
1931
0.0
🎬
Romany Love
as Davy Summers
1931
0.0
🎬
The Blue Peter
as Radio operator
1928
0.0