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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- Doctor Who (1963) as Dom Issigri
- The Saint (1962) as Antoine Louvois
- Z-Cars (1962) as Albert Wallace
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Helmut
- The Champions (1968) as Minister
- This Is Your Life (1955) as Self
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) as President
- Danger Man (1960) as Baron
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962) as Colonel Grahame
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962) as Hugh Armitage
- Sunday Night Theatre (1950) as Bubnov, a Capmaker
- Sunday Night Theatre (1950) as Major Kartuschke, Legal Officer
- Sunday-Night Play (1960) as Harold P. Jackman
- Public Eye (1965) as Dr. Stowe
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971) as Captain Cutler
- Gideon's Way (1965) as Robson
- Return of the Saint (1978) as Paul Hanson
- I, Claudius (1976) as Domitius
- Churchill's People (1974) as Penda's Father
- Festival (1963) as Chorus
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1956) as Gustav
- The Third Man (1959) as Theodore Ratteau
- The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978) as Old Capulet
- Interpol Calling (1959) as Von Schriber