8.0
8.0
What Men Live By
1938
as Michael
Esmond Knight
Acting
Born:May 4, 1906
Died:February 23, 1987(aged 80)
Birthplace:East Sheen, Surrey, England
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CommunityBiography
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 (58 movies)
8.0
8.0
Troilus & Cressida
1981
as Priam
8.0
8.0
The Red Shoes
1948
as Livy
7.7
7.7
Girdle of Gold
1952
as Evans the Milk
7.6
7.6
A Voyage Round My Father
1984
as Judge
7.5
7.5
Black Narcissus
1947
as The Old General
7.4
7.4
Peeping Tom
1960
as Arthur Baden
7.4
7.4
Romeo and Juliet
1978
as Old Capulet
7.4
7.4
Hamlet
1948
as Bernardo
7.2
7.2
The River
1951
as The Father
7.2
7.2
Where's Jack?
1969
as Ballad Singer
7.1
7.1
Contraband
1940
as Mr. Pidgeon
7.1
7.1
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965
as Old Judge
7.1
7.1
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969
as Kingston
6.9
6.9
A Canterbury Tale
1944
as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
6.8
6.8
Sink the Bismarck!
1960
as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
6.6
6.6
Holiday Camp
1947
as Camp Announcer
6.6
6.6
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
1939
as Raille
6.6
6.6
Henry V
1944
as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
6.5
6.5
King Lear
1983
as Old Man
6.4
6.4
The Halfway House
1944
as David Davies
6.4
6.4
The Element of Crime
1984
as Osborne
6.3
6.3
The Prince and the Showgirl
1957
as Hoffman
6.3
6.3
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977
as Armand
6.3
6.3
Robin and Marian
1976
as Old Defender
6.3
6.3
Antony & Cleopatra
1981
as Lepidus
6.2
6.2
Gone to Earth
1950
as Abel Woodus
6.2
6.2
This England
1941
as Vicar's Son
6.0
6.0
Decision at Midnight
1963
6.0
6.0
The Silver Fleet
1943
as Von Schiffer
5.8
5.8
Uncle Silas
1947
as Dr. Bryerly
5.8
5.8
Dandy Dick
1935
as Tony Mardon
5.8
5.8
Crime Unlimited
1935
as Pete Borden
5.5
5.5
Drake's Venture
1980
as John Dee
5.5
5.5
The Steel Key
1953
as Prof. Newman
5.5
5.5
The Vicar of Bray
1937
as Dennis Melross
5.4
5.4
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
1969
as Dom Issigri
5.4
5.4
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
1972
as Doctor
5.3
5.3
Waltzes from Vienna
1934
as Johann Strauss, the Younger
5.0
5.0
The End of the River
1947
as Dantos
4.5
4.5
Battle of the V-1
1958
as Stricker
4.3
4.3
Girls Will Be Boys
1934
as Geoffrey Dawson
4.2
4.2
Yellow Dog
1973
as Mundt
Full Circle
1953
Deadlock
1931
as John Tring
The Ringer
1931
as John Lenley
Romany Love
1931
as Davy Summers
The Blue Squadron
1934
as Captain Carlo Banti
Black Roses
1936
as Pavo Collin
Weddings Are Wonderful
1938
as Guy Rogers
Pagliacci
1936
as Cadet Silvio
The Bermondsey Kid
1933
as Eddie Martin
The Blue Peter
1928
as Radio operator
The Parachute
1968
as Helmut
The Winter's Tale
1968
as Camillo
Someday
1935
as Curly Blake
Father and Son
1935
as Michael Bolton
77 Park Lane
1931
as Philip Connor
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