Esmond Knight
Acting
Born 1906-05-04
Died 1987-02-23
East Sheen, Surrey, England
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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.
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Doctor Who
An Age of Kings
The Saint
Gideon's Way
BBC Play of the Month
Z-Cars
Sunday Night Theatre
Danger Man
The Champions
Thirty-Minute Theatre
This Is Your Life
I, Claudius
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Sunday-Night Play
The Count of Monte Cristo
Public Eye
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Churchill's People
The Third Man
Detective
The Troubleshooters
Festival
Interpol Calling
New Scotland Yard
Softly Softly: Task Force
Return of the Saint
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Fall of Eagles
Helen of Troy
Elizabeth R
Peeping Tom
King of the River
The Red Shoes
Supernatural
Fortunes of War
Arthur of the Britons
The Invisible Man
1990
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
Black Narcissus
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Anne of the Thousand Days
Cousin Bette
The Protectors
Robin and Marian
The Spies
The Man in the Iron Mask
Quiller
A for Andromeda
Rebecca
Sink the Bismarck!
Hamlet
The River
Wessex Tales
The Prince and the Showgirl
The Invisible Man
Fame Is the Spur
Henry V
Lord Raingo
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