Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1906-05-04
Day of Death
1987-02-23
Place of Birth
East Sheen, Surrey, England
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Esmond Knight, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (61)
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
The Element of Crime
1984
A Voyage Round My Father
1984
King Lear
1983
Troilus & Cressida
1981
Antony & Cleopatra
1981
Drake's Venture
1980
Romeo and Juliet
1978
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977
Robin and Marian
1976
Yellow Dog
1973
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
1972
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
1969
