Esmond Knight

Schauspieler

1906-05-04 – 1987-02-23 · 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.

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• Superman IV - Die Welt am Abgrund (1987) — Second Elder
• Augen der Angst (1960) — Arthur Baden
• Die roten Schuhe (1948) — Livy
• Die schwarze Narzisse (1947) — The Old General
• Der Spion, der aus der Kälte kam (1965) — Old Judge
• Hamlet (1948) — Bernardo
• Robin und Marian (1976) — Old Defender
• The Element of Crime (1984) — Osborne
• Der Prinz und die Tänzerin (1957) — Hoffman
• Königin für tausend Tage (1969) — Kingston
• Heinrich V. (1944) — Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
• Der Strom (1951) — The Father
• A Canterbury Tale (1944) — Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
• Die letzte Fahrt der Bismarck (1960) — Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
• Der Mann mit der eisernen Maske (1977) — Armand
• Die schöne Helena (1956) — High Priest
• Waltzes from Vienna (1934) — Johann Strauss, the Younger
• Die schwarze Füchsin (1950) — Abel Woodus
• The Halfway House (1944) — David Davies
• Contraband (1940) — Mr. Pidgeon
• Uncle Silas (1947) — Dr. Bryerly
• The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972) — Doctor
• Holiday Camp (1947) — Camp Announcer
• The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939) — Raille