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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Acting
Movie
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Second Elder
1987
Movie
Peeping Tom
as Arthur Baden
1960
Movie
The Red Shoes
as Livy
1948
TV
Doctor Who
as Dom Issigri
1963
Movie
Black Narcissus
as The Old General
1947
Movie
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
as Old Judge
1965
Movie
Hamlet
as Bernardo
1948
Movie
Robin and Marian
as Old Defender
1976
Movie
The Element of Crime
as Osborne
1984
Movie
The Prince and the Showgirl
as Hoffman
1957
TV
I, Claudius
as Domitius
1976
Movie
Henry V
as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
1944
Movie
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Kingston
1969
Movie
A Canterbury Tale
as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
1944
TV
The Saint
as Antoine Louvois
1962
Movie
The River
as The Father
1951
Movie
Sink the Bismarck!
as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
1960
Movie
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Armand
1977
Movie
Helen of Troy
as High Priest
1956
Movie
Waltzes from Vienna
as Johann Strauss, the Younger
1934
TV
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
as Mr. Galbraith
1987
Movie
Gone to Earth
as Abel Woodus
1950
Movie
The Halfway House
as David Davies
1944
TV
Danger Man
as Baron
1960
