Esmond Knight
Acting
🎂 1906-05-04
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.
Cast credits(93)
1962
Self
1955
Helmut
1965
Antoine Louvois
1962
1966
1956
Old Capulet
1978
Lepidus
1978
Priam
1978
Dr. Stowe
1965
Bubnov, a Capmaker
1950
Von Schriber
1959
1976
Paul Hanson
1978
Captain Cutler
1971
Minister
1968
1964
Robson
1965
Donner
1966
1962
General Loren
1966
Bishop de Quadra
1971
1960
General Hulot
1971
Professor Ernest Reinhart
1961
1977
Sam Bates
1983
1960
Vere Rawley
1974
Second Elder
1987
Liversage
1987
1957
Arthur Baden
1960
Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
1960
The Old General
1947
General Pickford
1975
Kingston
1969
High Priest
1956
Bernardo
1948
Livy
1948
Chorus
1963
Old Defender
1976
Old Judge
1965
Osborne
1984
Armand
1977
Hoffman
1957
Mr. Pidgeon
1940
The Father
1951
Abel Woodus
1950
Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
1944
Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
1944
Old Capulet
1978
David Davies
1944
Old Man
1983
Stricker
1958
Lepidus
1981
Ballad Singer
1969
Camp Announcer
1947
Vicar's Son
1941
Johann Strauss, the Younger
1934
Philip Connor
1931
Prof. Newman
1953
Dennis Melross
1937
John Lenley
1931
Von Schiffer
1943
Priam
1981
Dr. Bryerly
1947
Doctor
1972
Pete Borden
1935
Mundt
1973
Raille
1939
Tony Mardon
1935
1934
Pavo Collin
1936
Helmut
1968
Camillo
1968
Geoffrey Dawson
1934
Radio operator
1928
Judge
1984
John Dee
1980
Evans the Milk
1952
Dom Issigri
1969
Davy Summers
1931
Curly Blake
1935
Cadet Silvio
1936
John Tring
1931
Dantos
1947
1963
1953
Michael Bolton
1935
Eddie Martin
1933
Michael
1938
Guy Rogers
1938
