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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Esmond Knight, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Peeping Tom
(Arthur Baden)
Anne of the Thousand Days
(Kingston)
Hamlet
(Bernardo)
The Element of Crime
(Osborne)
Decision at Midnight
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
(Old Judge)
Crime Unlimited
(Pete Borden)
The Parachute
(Helmut)
The River
(The Father)
Black Narcissus
(The Old General)
Sink the Bismarck!
(Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales')
The Red Shoes
(Livy)
The Blue Squadron
Waltzes from Vienna
(Johann Strauss, the Younger)
Uncle Silas
(Dr. Bryerly)
Gone to Earth
(Abel Woodus)
Contraband
(Mr. Pidgeon)
The Silver Fleet
(Von Schiffer)
The Man in the Iron Mask
(Armand)
Yellow Dog
(Mundt)
Dandy Dick
(Tony Mardon)
Black Roses
(Pavo Collin)
The Vicar of Bray
(Dennis Melross)
This England
(Vicar's Son)
Weddings Are Wonderful
(Guy Rogers)
The End of the River
(Dantos)
Holiday Camp
(Camp Announcer)
Girls Will Be Boys
(Geoffrey Dawson)
A Canterbury Tale
(Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot)
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
(Raille)
Girdle of Gold
(Evans the Milk)
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
(Doctor)
The Winter's Tale
(Camillo)
Pagliacci
(Cadet Silvio)
The Bermondsey Kid
(Eddie Martin)
Battle of the V-1
(Stricker)
Henry V
(Fluellen - Captain in the English Army)
Where's Jack?
(Ballad Singer)
Someday
(Curly Blake)
Father and Son
(Michael Bolton)
The Halfway House
(David Davies)
The Blue Peter
(Radio operator)
Troilus & Cressida
(Priam)
77 Park Lane
(Philip Connor)
A Voyage Round My Father
(Judge)
Deadlock
(John Tring)
The Ringer
(John Lenley)
Romany Love
(Davy Summers)
The Prince and the Showgirl
(Hoffman)
What Men Live By
(Michael)
Romeo & Juliet
(Old Capulet)
Robin and Marian
(Old Defender)
Helen of Troy
(High Priest)
Antony & Cleopatra
(Lepidus)
The Steel Key
(Prof. Newman)
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
(Dom Issigri)
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
(Second Elder)
Elizabeth R
(Bishop de Quadra)
Softly, Softly
Z-Cars
Gideon's Way
(Robson)
The Saint
(Antoine Louvois)
Interpol Calling
(Von Schriber)
I, Claudius
The Champions
(Minister)
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
King of the River
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
(Captain Cutler)
1990
Festival
(Chorus)
An Age of Kings
My Cousin Rachel
(Sam Bates)
BBC Play of the Month
(Helmut)
Quiller
(General Pickford)
Fortunes of War
(Liversage)
Nicholas Nickleby
The BBC Television Shakespeare
(Old Capulet)
Detective
Barnaby Rudge
Bedtime Stories
(Vere Rawley)
Return of the Saint
(Paul Hanson)
Cousin Bette
(General Hulot)
Public Eye
(Dr. Stowe)
A for Andromeda
(Professor Ernest Reinhart)
This Is Your Life
(Self)
