Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 4, 1906
Place of Birth
East Sheen, Surrey, England
Also Known As
- Esmond Penington Knight
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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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Known For - Movies
Peeping Tom
as Arthur Baden
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Second Elder
Hamlet
as Bernardo
The Red Shoes
as Livy
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Kingston
Robin and Marian
as Old Defender
Sink the Bismarck!
as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
The Prince and the Showgirl
as Hoffman
Black Narcissus
as The Old General
Helen of Troy
as High Priest
Known For - TV Shows
Doctor Who
as Dom Issigri
BBC Play of the Month
as Helmut
The Saint
as Antoine Louvois
The Champions
as Minister
Z-Cars
as Albert Wallace
Fall of Eagles
as General Ruzski
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
as Colonel Grahame
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
as Hugh Armitage
Danger Man
as Baron
Sunday Night Theatre
as Bubnov, a Capmaker