Esmond Knight
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1906-05-04
Deathday 1987-02-23 (80 years old)
Place of Birth East Sheen, Surrey, England
Also Known As Esmond Penington Knight, Эсмонд Найт
Esmond Knight
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Esmond Knight, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as Second Elder
as Liversage
as Osborne
as Judge
as Sam Bates
as Priam
as Lepidus
as Old Capulet
as Old Capulet
as Paul Hanson
as Armand
as Old Defender
as General Pickford
as Vere Rawley
as Mundt
as Doctor
as Captain Cutler
as General Hulot
as Bishop de Quadra
as Kingston
as Dom Issigri
as Ballad Singer
as Camillo
as Helmut
as Minister
as Old Judge
as Helmut
as Robson
as Dr. Stowe
as Chorus
as Antoine Louvois
as Professor Ernest Reinhart
as Arthur Baden
as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
as Von Schriber
as Stricker
as Hoffman
as High Priest
as Self
as Prof. Newman
as Evans the Milk
as The Father
as Abel Woodus
as Bernardo
as Livy
as Dantos
as Dr. Bryerly
as Camp Announcer
as The Old General
as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
as David Davies
as Von Schiffer
as Vicar's Son
as Mr. Pidgeon
as Raille
as Guy Rogers
as Michael
as Dennis Melross
as Pavo Collin
as Cadet Silvio
as Curly Blake
as Pete Borden
as Tony Mardon
as Michael Bolton
as Geoffrey Dawson
as Johann Strauss, the Younger
as Eddie Martin
as John Tring
as Philip Connor
as John Lenley
as Davy Summers
as Radio operator
Crew
as Dialogue Coach