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person_profile-Esmond Knight

Esmond Knight Died at age: 80

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Esmond Knight

Date of Birth:

May 04, 1906

Country of birth:

England

Died:

Feb 23, 1987

Biography of

Esmond Knight

    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.

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Filmography of

Esmond Knight

Found 47 Movies in total

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Second Elder ( Actor )

... 1987

The Element of Crime

Osborne ( Actor )

... 1984

... 1984

Troilus & Cressida

Priam ( Actor )

... 1981

Antony & Cleopatra

Lepidus ( Actor )

... 1981

Drake's Venture

John Dee ( Actor )

... 1980

Romeo and Juliet

Old Capulet ( Actor )

... 1978

... 1977

Ballet Shoes

Great Uncle Matthew ( Actor )

... 1976

Robin and Marian

Old Defender ( Actor )

... 1976

Yellow Dog

Mundt ( Actor )

... 1973

... 1972

Anne of the Thousand Days

Kingston ( Actor )

... 1969

Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

Dom Issigri ( Actor )

... 1969

Where's Jack?

Ballad Singer ( Actor )

... 1969

The Winter's Tale

Camillo ( Actor )

... 1968

The Parachute

Helmut ( Actor )

... 1968

... 1965

Peeping Tom

Arthur Baden ( Actor )

... 1960

Sink the Bismarck!

Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales' ( Actor )

... 1960

Battle of the V-1

Stricker ( Actor )

... 1958

... 1957

Helen of Troy

High Priest ( Actor )

... 1956

The Steel Key

Prof. Newman ( Actor )

... 1953

Girdle of Gold

Evans the Milk ( Actor )

... 1952

The River

The Father ( Actor )

... 1951

Gone to Earth

Abel Woodus ( Actor )

... 1950

Hamlet

Bernardo ( Actor )

... 1948

The Red Shoes

Livy ( Actor )

... 1948

The End of the River

Dantos ( Actor )

... 1947

Uncle Silas

Dr. Bryerly ( Actor )

... 1947

Holiday Camp

Camp Announcer ( Actor )

... 1947

Black Narcissus

The Old General ( Actor )

... 1947

Henry V

Fluellen - Captain in the English Army ( Actor )

... 1944

A Canterbury Tale

Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot ( Actor )

... 1944

The Halfway House

David Davies ( Actor )

... 1944

The Silver Fleet

Von Schiffer ( Actor )

... 1943

This England

Vicar's Son ( Actor )

... 1941

Contraband

Mr. Pidgeon ( Actor )

... 1940

... 1939

Pagliacci

Cadet Silvio ( Actor )

... 1936

Crime Unlimited

Pete Borden ( Actor )

... 1935

Dandy Dick

Tony Mardon ( Actor )

... 1935

Girls Will Be Boys

Geoffrey Dawson ( Actor )

... 1934

Waltzes from Vienna

Johann Strauss, the Younger ( Actor )

... 1934

Deadlock

John Tring ( Actor )

... 1931

77 Park Lane

Philip Connor ( Actor )

... 1931