Esmond Knight
Born: 1906-05-04 in East Sheen, Surrey, England
Died: 1987-02-23
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1987
- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace as Second Elder
- Fortunes of War as Liversage
- Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder as Mr. Galbraith
1984
- The Invisible Man as Blind Man
- Miss Marple as Mr. Galbraith
- The Element of Crime as Osborne
- A Voyage Round My Father as Judge
1983
- My Cousin Rachel as Sam Bates
- King Lear as Old Man
1981
- Troilus & Cressida as Priam
- Antony & Cleopatra as Lepidus
1980
- Drake's Venture as John Dee
1979
- Rebecca as Coroner
1978
- Return of the Saint as Paul Hanson
- Romeo and Juliet as Old Capulet
1977
- 1990 as Mitchell
- Supernatural as Sir Charles
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Armand
1976
- I, Claudius as Domitius
- Robin and Marian as Old Defender
1975
- Quiller as General Pickford
1974
- Churchill's People as Penda's Father
- Fall of Eagles as General Ruzski
- Bedtime Stories as Vere Rawley
1973
- Wessex Tales as Conjuror Trendle
- Yellow Dog as Mundt
1972
- Arthur of the Britons as Athel
- New Scotland Yard as General Travers
- The Boy Who Turned Yellow as Doctor
1971
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Captain Cutler
- Elizabeth R as Bishop de Quadra
- Cousin Bette as General Hulot
1969
- Softly Softly: Task Force as Mr. Justice Ruddy
- Anne of the Thousand Days as Kingston
- Where's Jack? as Ballad Singer
- Doctor Who: The Space Pirates as Dom Issigri
1968
- The Champions as Minister
- The Winter's Tale as Camillo
- The Parachute as Helmut
1966
- King of the River as Donner
- The Spies as General Loren
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Helmut
- Public Eye as Dr. Stowe
- Gideon's Way as Robson
- Thirty-Minute Theatre as President
- The Troubleshooters as Foss
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold as Old Judge
1964
- Detective as Commodore Rupert Gill
- The Protectors as Pearce Kettner
1963
- Doctor Who as Dom Issigri
- Festival as Chorus
- Decision at Midnight as Peter Hauser
1962
- The Saint as Antoine Louvois
- Z-Cars as Albert Wallace
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook as Colonel Grahame
1961
- A for Andromeda as Professor Ernest Reinhart
1960
- Danger Man as Baron
- Sunday-Night Play as Harold P. Jackman
- An Age of Kings as Jack Cade
- Peeping Tom as Arthur Baden
- Barnaby Rudge as Dennis, the Hangman
- Sink the Bismarck! as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
1959
- The Third Man as Theodore Ratteau
- Interpol Calling as Von Schriber
1958
- The Invisible Man as Wilson
- Battle of the V-1 as Stricker
1957
- The Prince and the Showgirl as Hoffman
- Nicholas Nickleby as Wackford Squeers. Sr
1956
- The Count of Monte Cristo as Gustav
- Armchair Theatre as Uncle Karl
- Helen of Troy as High Priest
1955
- This Is Your Life as Self
- The Dark Avenger ... (Dialogue Coach)
1953
- The Steel Key as Prof. Newman
- Full Circle
1952
- Girdle of Gold as Evans the Milk
1951
- The River as The Father
- Without Fear as Narrator (voice)
1950
- Sunday Night Theatre as Bubnov, a Capmaker
- Gone to Earth as Abel Woodus
1948
- The Red Shoes as Livy
- Hamlet as Bernardo
1947
- Black Narcissus as The Old General
- The End of the River as Dantos
- Uncle Silas as Dr. Bryerly
- Holiday Camp as Camp Announcer
1944
- Henry V as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
- A Canterbury Tale as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
- 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
1939
- The Arsenal Stadium Mystery as Raille
1938
- What Men Live By as Michael
- Weddings Are Wonderful as Guy Rogers
1937
- The Vicar of Bray as Dennis Melross
1936
- Black Roses as Pavo Collin
- Pagliacci as Cadet Silvio
1935
- Dandy Dick as Tony Mardon
- Crime Unlimited as Pete Borden
- Father and Son as Michael Bolton
- Someday as Curly Blake
1934
- Waltzes from Vienna as Johann Strauss, the Younger
- Girls Will Be Boys as Geoffrey Dawson
- The Blue Squadron as Captain Carlo Banti
1933
- The Bermondsey Kid as Eddie Martin
1931
- Deadlock as John Tring
- The Ringer as John Lenley
- 77 Park Lane as Philip Connor
- Romany Love as Davy Summers
1928
- The Blue Peter as Radio operator