Esmond Knight
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.
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Known for
BBC Play of the Month
Helmut
The Saint
Antoine Louvois
I, Claudius
Sunday Night Theatre
Bubnov, a Capmaker
Gideon's Way
Robson
Z-Cars
Public Eye
Dr. Stowe
Softly, Softly
The Champions
Minister
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Second Elder
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
This Is Your Life
Self
Return of the Saint
Paul Hanson
1990
Interpol Calling
Von Schriber
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Captain Cutler
Festival
Chorus
The Count of Monte Cristo
Fortunes of War
Liversage
Peeping Tom
Arthur Baden
Elizabeth R
Bishop de Quadra
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Old Judge
Sink the Bismarck!
Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
Black Narcissus
The Old General
An Age of Kings
Detective
Hamlet
Bernardo
Helen of Troy
High Priest
The Red Shoes
Livy
The Man in the Iron Mask
Armand
The Element of Crime
Osborne
Robin and Marian
Old Defender
Quiller
General Pickford
A for Andromeda
Professor Ernest Reinhart
The River
The Father
Anne of the Thousand Days
Kingston
The Prince and the Showgirl
Hoffman
The Halfway House
David Davies
King of the River
Donner
Contraband
Mr. Pidgeon
My Cousin Rachel
Sam Bates
Romeo and Juliet
Old Capulet
Gone to Earth
Abel Woodus
Barnaby Rudge
The Silver Fleet
Von Schiffer
Henry V
Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
Holiday Camp
Camp Announcer
A Canterbury Tale
Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
Dandy Dick
Tony Mardon
This England
Vicar's Son
Antony & Cleopatra
Lepidus
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Raille
The Vicar of Bray
Dennis Melross
Battle of the V-1
Stricker
Nicholas Nickleby
King Lear
Old Man
Waltzes from Vienna
Johann Strauss, the Younger
Bedtime Stories
Vere Rawley
Cousin Bette
General Hulot
Cousin Bette
Marshal Hulot
Crime Unlimited
Pete Borden
The Winter's Tale
Camillo
The Spies
General Loren
Troilus & Cressida
Priam
A Voyage Round My Father
Judge
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
Dom Issigri
Uncle Silas
Dr. Bryerly
Pagliacci
Cadet Silvio
77 Park Lane
Philip Connor
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
Doctor
Yellow Dog
Mundt
Girdle of Gold
Evans the Milk
The Steel Key
Prof. Newman
Where's Jack?
Ballad Singer
The Bermondsey Kid
Eddie Martin
The Blue Squadron
The Blue Peter
Radio operator
Girls Will Be Boys
Geoffrey Dawson
Decision at Midnight
Deadlock
John Tring
Weddings Are Wonderful
Guy Rogers
Drake's Venture
John Dee
The End of the River
Dantos
The Parachute
Helmut
Romany Love
Davy Summers
Black Roses
Pavo Collin
Father and Son
Michael Bolton
What Men Live By
Michael
The Ringer
John Lenley
Full Circle
Someday
Curly Blake