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Esmond Knight

Esmond Knight

Birthday: 1906-05-04 | Place of Birth: East 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1987
The Element of Crime

as    Osborne

1981
Antony & Cleopatra

as    Lepidus

1972
The Boy Who Turned Yellow

as    Doctor

1961
Peeping Tom

as    Arthur Baden

1960
Sink the Bismarck!

as    Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'

1953
The Steel Key

as    Prof. Newman

1952
Gone to Earth

as    Abel Woodus

1951
The River

as    The Father

1948
Holiday Camp

as    Camp Announcer

1948
The Red Shoes

as    Livy

1947
Uncle Silas

as    Dr. Bryerly

1947
Black Narcissus

as    The Old General

1944
A Canterbury Tale

as    Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot

1941
This England

as    Vicar's Son

1940
Contraband

as    Mr. Pidgeon

1939
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

as    Raille

1935
Crime Unlimited

as    Pete Borden