Esmond Knight
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.
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Filmography
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
as Second Elder
The Element of Crime
1984
as Osborne
A Voyage Round My Father
1984
as Judge
King Lear
1983
as Old Man
Troilus & Cressida
1981
as Priam
Antony & Cleopatra
1981
as Lepidus
Drake's Venture
1980
as John Dee
Romeo and Juliet
1978
as Old Capulet
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977
as Armand
Robin and Marian
1976
as Old Defender
Yellow Dog
1973
as Mundt
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
1972
as Doctor
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
as Kingston
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
1969
as Dom Issigri
Where's Jack?
1969
as Ballad Singer
The Winter's Tale
1968
as Camillo
The Parachute
1968
as Helmut
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965
as Old Judge
Decision at Midnight
1963
as Peter Hauser
Peeping Tom
1960
as Arthur Baden
Sink the Bismarck!
1960
as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
Battle of the V-1
1958
as Stricker
The Prince and the Showgirl
1957
as Hoffman
Helen of Troy
1956
as High Priest