Esmond Knight
Actor
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.
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Filmography
Peeping Tom
as Arthur Baden 1960
The Red Shoes
as Livy 1948
Black Narcissus
as The Old General 1947
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
as Old Judge 1965
Hamlet
as Bernardo 1948
Robin and Marian
as Old Defender 1976
The Element of Crime
as Osborne 1984
The Prince and the Showgirl
as Hoffman 1957
Henry V
as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army 1944
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Kingston 1969
A Canterbury Tale
as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot 1944
The River
as The Father 1951
Sink the Bismarck!
as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales' 1960
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Armand 1977
Helen of Troy
as High Priest 1956
Waltzes from Vienna
as Johann Strauss, the Younger 1934