Esmond Knight

Known for ActingBorn 1906-05-04Died 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. 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Quiller

The Spies

Father and Son

The Ringer

Detective

Weddings Are Wonderful

Pagliacci

Someday

The Bermondsey Kid

Public Eye

Troilus & Cressida

Girdle of Gold

Arthur of the Britons

The Protectors

Festival

I, Claudius

Doctor Who

The Invisible Man

The Red Shoes

Romeo and Juliet

Rebecca

The Blue Peter

A Voyage Round My Father

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Elizabeth R

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder

Where's Jack?

Decision at Midnight

Peeping Tom

Antony & Cleopatra

Danger Man

Supernatural

Black Narcissus

The Saint

The Troubleshooters

Z-Cars

Hamlet

What Men Live By

The Invisible Man

Interpol Calling

My Cousin Rachel

Anne of the Thousand Days

Return of the Saint

The River

The Third Man

Fall of Eagles

Wessex Tales

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold