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.

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Peeping Tom

Arthur Baden

Movie 1960

Anne of the Thousand Days

Kingston

Movie 1969

Hamlet

Bernardo

Movie 1948

The Element of Crime

Osborne

Movie 1984

Decision at Midnight

Movie 1963

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Old Judge

Movie 1965

Crime Unlimited

Pete Borden

Movie 1935

The Parachute

Helmut

Movie 1968

The River

The Father

Movie 1951

Black Narcissus

The Old General

Movie 1947

Sink the Bismarck!

Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'

Movie 1960

The Red Shoes

Livy

Movie 1948

The Blue Squadron

Movie 1934

Waltzes from Vienna

Johann Strauss, the Younger

Movie 1934

Uncle Silas

Dr. Bryerly

Movie 1947

Gone to Earth

Abel Woodus

Movie 1950

Contraband

Mr. Pidgeon

Movie 1940

The Silver Fleet

Von Schiffer

Movie 1943

The Man in the Iron Mask

Armand

Movie 1977

Yellow Dog

Mundt

Movie 1973

Dandy Dick

Tony Mardon

Movie 1935

Black Roses

Pavo Collin

Movie 1936

The Vicar of Bray

Dennis Melross

Movie 1937

This England

Vicar's Son

Movie 1941

Weddings Are Wonderful

Guy Rogers

Movie 1938

The End of the River

Dantos

Movie 1947

Holiday Camp

Camp Announcer

Movie 1947

Girls Will Be Boys

Geoffrey Dawson

Movie 1934

A Canterbury Tale

Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot

Movie 1944

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

Raille

Movie 1939

Girdle of Gold

Evans the Milk

Movie 1952

The Boy Who Turned Yellow

Doctor

Movie 1972

The Winter's Tale

Camillo

Movie 1968

Pagliacci

Cadet Silvio

Movie 1936

The Bermondsey Kid

Eddie Martin

Movie 1933

Battle of the V-1

Stricker

Movie 1958

Henry V

Fluellen - Captain in the English Army

Movie 1944

Where's Jack?

Ballad Singer

Movie 1969

Someday

Curly Blake

Movie 1935

Father and Son

Michael Bolton

Movie 1935

The Blue Peter

Radio operator

Movie 1928

Troilus & Cressida

Priam

Movie 1981

77 Park Lane

Philip Connor

Movie 1931

A Voyage Round My Father

Judge

Movie 1984

Deadlock

John Tring

Movie 1931

The Ringer

John Lenley

Movie 1931

Romany Love

Davy Summers

Movie 1931

The Prince and the Showgirl

Hoffman

Movie 1957

What Men Live By

Michael

Movie 1938

Robin and Marian

Old Defender

Movie 1976

Helen of Troy

High Priest

Movie 1956

Antony & Cleopatra

Lepidus

Movie 1981

The Steel Key

Prof. Newman

Movie 1953

Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

Dom Issigri

Movie 1969

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Second Elder

Movie 1987

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Elizabeth R

Bishop de Quadra

Tv 1971

Softly, Softly

Tv 1966

Z-Cars

Tv 1962

Gideon's Way

Robson

Tv 1965

The Saint

Antoine Louvois

Tv 1962

Interpol Calling

Von Schriber

Tv 1959

I, Claudius

Tv 1976

The Champions

Minister

Tv 1968

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

Tv 1962

King of the River

Tv 1966

The Count of Monte Cristo

Tv 1956

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Captain Cutler

Tv 1971

1990

Tv 1977

Festival

Chorus

Tv 1963

An Age of Kings

Tv 1960

My Cousin Rachel

Sam Bates

Tv 1983

BBC Play of the Month

Helmut

Tv 1965

Quiller

General Pickford

Tv 1975

Nicholas Nickleby

Tv 1957

BBC Television Shakespeare

Old Capulet

Tv 1978

Detective

Tv 1964

Barnaby Rudge

Tv 1960

Bedtime Stories

Vere Rawley

Tv 1974

Return of the Saint

Paul Hanson

Tv 1978

Cousin Bette

General Hulot

Tv 1971

Public Eye

Dr. Stowe

Tv 1965

A for Andromeda

Professor Ernest Reinhart

Tv 1961

This Is Your Life

Self

Tv 1955