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The Element of Crime

as Osborne

1987
Antony & Cleopatra

as Lepidus

1981
Peeping Tom

as Arthur Baden

1961
Sink the Bismarck!

as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'

1960
The Steel Key

as Prof. Newman

1953
The River

as The Father

1951
Gone to Earth

as Abel Woodus

1952
The Red Shoes

as Livy

1948
Hamlet

as

1948
Black Narcissus

as The Old General

1947
Holiday Camp

as Camp Announcer

1948
Uncle Silas

as Dr. Bryerly

1947
A Canterbury Tale

as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot

1949
This England

as Vicar's Son

1941
Contraband

as Mr. Pidgeon

1940
Crime Unlimited

as Pete Borden

1935
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Esmond Knight Esmond Knight

Birthday

1906-05-04

Place of Birth

East Sheen, Surrey, England

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.
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