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

1987
Fortunes of War

as Liversage

1984
1983
My Cousin Rachel

as Sam Bates

1981
1981
1978
Romeo & Juliet

as Old Capulet

1978
1978
Return of the Saint

as Paul Hanson

1977
1976
Robin and Marian

as Old Defender

1975
Quiller

as General Pickford

1974
Bedtime Stories

as Vere Rawley

1973
Yellow Dog

as Mundt

1971
1971
Cousin Bette

as General Hulot

1971
Elizabeth R

as Bishop de Quadra

1969
Where's Jack?

as Ballad Singer

1968
1968
The Parachute

as Helmut

1968
The Champions

as Minister

1965
1965
Gideon's Way

as Robson

1965
Public Eye

as Dr. Stowe

1963
Festival

as Chorus

1962
The Saint

as Antoine Louvois

1962
1961
A for Andromeda

as Professor Ernest Reinhart

1960
Peeping Tom

as Arthur Baden

1960
Sink the Bismarck!

as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'

1959
Interpol Calling

as Von Schriber

1958
Battle of the V-1

as Stricker

1956
Helen of Troy

as High Priest

1955
1953
The Steel Key

as Prof. Newman

1952
Girdle of Gold

as Evans the Milk

1951
The River

as The Father

1950
Gone to Earth

as Abel Woodus

1948
Hamlet

as Bernardo

1948
1947
1947
Uncle Silas

as Dr. Bryerly

1947
Holiday Camp

as Camp Announcer

1947
Black Narcissus

as The Old General

1944
Henry V

as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army

1944
A Canterbury Tale

as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot

1944
The Halfway House

as David Davies

1943
The Silver Fleet

as Von Schiffer

1941
This England

as Vicar's Son

1940
Contraband

as Mr. Pidgeon

1938
1938
What Men Live By

as Michael

1937
The Vicar of Bray

as Dennis Melross

1936
Black Roses

as Pavo Collin

1936
Pagliacci

as Cadet Silvio

1935
Someday

as Curly Blake

1935
Crime Unlimited

as Pete Borden

1935
Dandy Dick

as Tony Mardon

1935
Father and Son

as Michael Bolton

1934
Girls Will Be Boys

as Geoffrey Dawson

1934
Waltzes from Vienna

as Johann Strauss, the Younger

1933
The Bermondsey Kid

as Eddie Martin

1931
Deadlock

as John Tring

1931
77 Park Lane

as Philip Connor

1931
The Ringer

as John Lenley

1931
Romany Love

as Davy Summers

1928
The Blue Peter

as Radio operator

Crew

1955
The Dark Avenger

as Dialogue Coach