Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
May 4, 1906
Died
February 23, 1987 (80 years old)
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!
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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
Acting
Fortunes of War
1987
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
The Element of Crime
1984
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977
I, Claudius
1976
Robin and Marian
1976
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
1972
Elizabeth R
1971
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
The Champions
1968
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965
The Saint
1962
Peeping Tom
1960
Sink the Bismarck!
1960
The Prince and the Showgirl
1957
Helen of Troy
1956
The River
1951
Gone to Earth
1950
Hamlet
1948
The Red Shoes
1948
Uncle Silas
1947
Holiday Camp
1947
Black Narcissus
1947
Henry V
1944