Esmond Knight
Known for ActingBorn 1906-05-04 — died 1987-02-23East Sheen, Surrey, England
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.
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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
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987 · as Second Elder
The Red Shoes
1948 · as Livy
Helen of Troy
1956 · as High Priest
Peeping Tom
1960 · as Arthur Baden
Robin and Marian
1976 · as Old Defender
The River
1951 · as The Father
Sink the Bismarck!
1960 · as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
The Prince and the Showgirl
1957 · as Hoffman
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965 · as Old Judge
Black Narcissus
1947 · as The Old General
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977 · as Armand
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969 · as Kingston
Hamlet
1948 · as Bernardo
This England
1941 · as Vicar's Son
Henry V
1944 · as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
Where's Jack?
1969 · as Ballad Singer
Crime Unlimited
1935 · as Pete Borden
Romeo and Juliet
1978 · as Old Capulet