
Esmond Knight
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.
110 acting credits
Acting · 110

Doctor Who
1963

The Saint
1962

BBC Play of the Month
1965

Z-Cars
1962

The Champions
1968

Danger Man
1960

Dr. Finlay's Casebook
1962

Sunday Night Theatre
1950

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971

The Third Man
1959

Public Eye
1965
Festival
1963

Return of the Saint
1978

This Is Your Life
1955

Churchill's People
1974

Gideon's Way
1965

I, Claudius
1976

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965

Interpol Calling
1959
Sunday-Night Play
1960

Softly Softly: Task Force
1969

The Count of Monte Cristo
1956

Fall of Eagles
1974

The Troubleshooters
1965

Detective
1964

An Age of Kings
1960

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987

The Invisible Man
1958

1990
1977

Arthur of the Britons
1972

New Scotland Yard
1972

Elizabeth R
1971

Fortunes of War
1987
Quiller
1975

Supernatural
1977

The Red Shoes
1948

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
1987

Helen of Troy
1956
King of the River
1966

Armchair Theatre
1956

Barnaby Rudge
1960

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965

Peeping Tom
1960

Wessex Tales
1973

Cousin Bette
1971

Hamlet
1948

Sink the Bismarck!
1960

The Prince and the Showgirl
1957

Black Narcissus
1947

Anne of the Thousand Days
1969

The Man in the Iron Mask
1977

Bedtime Stories
1974

Miss Marple
1984

The Invisible Man
1984

Rebecca
1979

A for Andromeda
1961

Robin and Marian
1976
The Spies
1966

Henry V
1944
The Protectors
1964
Nicholas Nickleby
1957

Gone to Earth
1950

A Canterbury Tale
1944

Yellow Dog
1973

The River
1951

A Voyage Round My Father
1984

My Cousin Rachel
1983

Contraband
1940

The Element of Crime
1984

Holiday Camp
1947

Troilus & Cressida
1981

King Lear
1983

Antony & Cleopatra
1981

The End of the River
1947

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
1939

The Boy Who Turned Yellow
1972

The Halfway House
1944

Where's Jack?
1969

Romeo and Juliet
1978

Decision at Midnight
1963

The Silver Fleet
1943

Dandy Dick
1935

Waltzes from Vienna
1934

The Steel Key
1953
What Men Live By
1938

The Winter's Tale
1968
Black Roses
1936

This England
1941

Battle of the V-1
1958

Girdle of Gold
1952

Uncle Silas
1947

Crime Unlimited
1935

Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
1969

Deadlock
1931

The Parachute
1968

Drake's Venture
1980
The Ringer
1931

77 Park Lane
1931
Father and Son
1935

Girls Will Be Boys
1934

Pagliacci
1936
Someday
1935
The Vicar of Bray
1937
Full Circle
1953
The Blue Squadron
1934
The Bermondsey Kid
1933
The Blue Peter
1928
Weddings Are Wonderful
1938
Romany Love
1931
Without Fear
1951