Acting credits
91
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Esmond Knight
Acting
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Movies: 49Series: 43Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 56875
IMDb ID: nm0460874
Known for: Acting
Born: May 4, 1906
Died: February 23, 1987
Age: 80
Place of birth: East Sheen, Surrey, England
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1931 - 1987
Years active: 57
Average TMDB rating: 6.88
Wikidata: Q462314
Also known as
Esmond Penington Knight • Эсмонд Найт
Other jobs
Dialogue Coach (1)
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.
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Esmond Knight.
as Second Elder
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987 • Movie
as Osborne
The Element of Crime
1984 • Movie
as Judge
A Voyage Round My Father
1984 • Movie
as Old Man
King Lear
1983 • Movie
as Priam
Troilus & Cressida
1981 • Movie
as Lepidus
Antony & Cleopatra
1981 • Movie
as John Dee
Drake's Venture
1980 • Movie
as Old Capulet
Romeo and Juliet
1978 • Movie
as Armand
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977 • Movie
as Old Defender
Robin and Marian
1976 • Movie
as Mundt
Yellow Dog
1973 • Movie
as Doctor
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
1972 • Movie
as Kingston
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969 • Movie
as Dom Issigri
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
1969 • Movie
as Ballad Singer
Where's Jack?
1969 • Movie
as Camillo
The Winter's Tale
1968 • Movie
as Helmut
The Parachute
1968 • Movie
as Old Judge
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965 • Movie
as Peter Hauser
Decision at Midnight
1963 • Movie
as Arthur Baden
Peeping Tom
1960 • Movie
as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
Sink the Bismarck!
1960 • Movie
as Stricker
Battle of the V-1
1958 • Movie
as Hoffman
The Prince and the Showgirl
1957 • Movie
as High Priest
Helen of Troy
1956 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Esmond Knight.
as Liversage • 2 eps
Fortunes of War
1987 • Series
as Mr. Galbraith • 2 eps
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
1987 • Series
as Blind Man • 1 eps
The Invisible Man
1984 • Series
as Sam Bates • 1 eps
My Cousin Rachel
1983 • Series
as Coroner • 1 eps
Rebecca
1979 • Series
as Old Capulet • 1 eps
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978 • Series
as Paul Hanson • 1 eps
Return of the Saint
1978 • Series
as Mitchell • 1 eps
1990
1977 • Series
as Sir Charles • 2 eps
Supernatural
1977 • Series
as Domitius • 1 eps
I, Claudius
1976 • Series
as General Pickford • 1 eps
Quiller
1975 • Series
as Penda's Father • 1 eps
Churchill's People
1974 • Series
as General Ruzski • 1 eps
Fall of Eagles
1974 • Series
as Vere Rawley • 1 eps
Bedtime Stories
1974 • Series
as Conjuror Trendle • 1 eps
Wessex Tales
1973 • Series
as Athel • 1 eps
Arthur of the Britons
1972 • Series
as General Travers • 1 eps
New Scotland Yard
1972 • Series
as Captain Cutler • 1 eps
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 • Series
as General Hulot • 2 eps
Cousin Bette
1971 • Series
as Bishop de Quadra • 1 eps
Elizabeth R
1971 • Series
as Mr. Justice Ruddy • 1 eps
Softly Softly: Task Force
1969 • Series
as Minister • 1 eps
The Champions
1968 • Series
as Helmut • 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
1965 • Series
as President • 1 eps
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 • Series