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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Esmond Knight, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: East Sheen, Surrey, England, 1906-05-04

Died: 1987-02-23

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1928	The Blue Peter	Radio operator	0
2	1931	Romany Love	Davy Summers	0
3	1931	The Ringer	John Lenley	0
4	1931	77 Park Lane	Philip Connor	0
5	1931	Deadlock	John Tring	0
6	1933	The Bermondsey Kid	Eddie Martin	0
7	1934	Waltzes from Vienna	Johann Strauss, the Younger	54
8	1934	Girls Will Be Boys	Geoffrey Dawson	43
9	1934	The Blue Squadron		0
10	1935	Father and Son	Michael Bolton	0
11	1935	Dandy Dick	Tony Mardon	58
12	1935	Crime Unlimited	Pete Borden	58
13	1935	Someday	Curly Blake	0
14	1936	Pagliacci	Cadet Silvio	0
15	1936	Black Roses	Pavo Collin	0
16	1937	The Vicar of Bray	Dennis Melross	55
17	1938	What Men Live By	Michael	80
18	1938	Weddings Are Wonderful	Guy Rogers	0
19	1939	The Arsenal Stadium Mystery	Raille	66
20	1940	Contraband	Mr. Pidgeon	69
21	1941	This England	Vicar's Son	62
22	1943	The Silver Fleet	Von Schiffer	60
23	1944	The Halfway House	David Davies	64
24	1944	A Canterbury Tale	Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot	69
25	1944	Henry V	Fluellen - Captain in the English Army	66
26	1947	Black Narcissus	The Old General	75
27	1947	Holiday Camp	Camp Announcer	61
28	1947	Uncle Silas	Dr. Bryerly	58
29	1947	The End of the River	Dantos	50
30	1948	The Red Shoes	Livy	80
31	1948	Hamlet	Bernardo	74
32	1950	Gone to Earth	Abel Woodus	62
33	1951	The River	The Father	72
34	1952	Girdle of Gold	Evans the Milk	77
35	1953	The Steel Key	Prof. Newman	55
36	1953	Full Circle		0
37	1956	Helen of Troy	High Priest	63
38	1957	The Prince and the Showgirl	Hoffman	64
39	1958	Battle of the V-1	Stricker	45
40	1960	Sink the Bismarck!	Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'	68
41	1960	Peeping Tom	Arthur Baden	74
42	1963	Decision at Midnight		60
43	1965	The Spy Who Came In from the Cold	Old Judge	71
44	1968	The Parachute	Helmut	0
45	1968	The Winter's Tale	Camillo	0
46	1969	Where's Jack?	Ballad Singer	72
47	1969	Doctor Who: The Space Pirates	Dom Issigri	54
48	1969	Anne of the Thousand Days	Kingston	71
49	1972	The Boy Who Turned Yellow	Doctor	54
50	1973	Yellow Dog	Mundt	22
51	1976	Robin and Marian	Old Defender	63
52	1977	The Man in the Iron Mask	Armand	64
53	1978	Romeo and Juliet	Old Capulet	74
54	1980	Drake's Venture	John Dee	50
55	1981	Antony & Cleopatra	Lepidus	63
56	1981	Troilus & Cressida	Priam	80
57	1983	King Lear	Old Man	65
58	1984	A Voyage Round My Father	Judge	76
59	1984	The Element of Crime	Osborne	64
60	1987	Superman IV: The Quest for Peace	Second Elder	46

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	Sunday Night Theatre	Bubnov, a Capmaker	35
2	1955	This Is Your Life	Self	64
3	1956	The Count of Monte Cristo		44
4	1957	Nicholas Nickleby		0
5	1959	Interpol Calling	Von Schriber	67
6	1960	An Age of Kings		47
7	1960	Barnaby Rudge		50
8	1961	A for Andromeda	Professor Ernest Reinhart	50
9	1962	Z-Cars		70
10	1962	Dr. Finlay's Casebook		60
11	1962	The Saint	Antoine Louvois	73
12	1963	Festival	Chorus	0
13	1964	Detective		0
14	1965	Public Eye	Dr. Stowe	78
15	1965	Gideon's Way	Robson	68
16	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Helmut	50
17	1966	The Spies	General Loren	0
18	1966	Softly, Softly		50
19	1966	King of the River	Donner	0
20	1968	The Champions	Minister	61
21	1971	Elizabeth R	Bishop de Quadra	74
22	1971	Cousin Bette	General Hulot	35
23	1971	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Captain Cutler	73
24	1974	Bedtime Stories	Vere Rawley	0
25	1975	Quiller	General Pickford	0
26	1976	I, Claudius		78
27	1977	1990		60
28	1978	Return of the Saint	Paul Hanson	70
29	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Old Capulet	60
30	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Lepidus	60
31	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Priam	60
32	1983	My Cousin Rachel	Sam Bates	60
33	1987	Fortunes of War	Liversage	64

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