Esmond Knight

Esmond Knight

Birthday: 1906-05-04

Deathday: 1987-02-23

Place of birth: East Sheen, Surrey, England

Also known as: Esmond Penington Knight, Эсмонд Найт

imdb_id: nm0460874

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.

Played in movies:

What Men Live By

Score: 8.0

Troilus & Cressida

Score: 8.0

The Red Shoes

Score: 8.0

Girdle of Gold

Score: 7.7

A Voyage Round My Father

Score: 7.6

Black Narcissus

Score: 7.5

Peeping Tom

Score: 7.4

Hamlet

Score: 7.4

Romeo and Juliet

Score: 7.4

Where's Jack?

Score: 7.2

The River

Score: 7.2

Anne of the Thousand Days

Score: 7.1

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Score: 7.1

Contraband

Score: 6.9

A Canterbury Tale

Score: 6.9

Sink the Bismarck!

Score: 6.8

Henry V

Score: 6.6

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

Score: 6.6

The Prince and the Showgirl

Score: 6.4

The Halfway House

Score: 6.4

The Man in the Iron Mask

Score: 6.4

The Element of Crime

Score: 6.4

Antony & Cleopatra

Score: 6.3

Helen of Troy

Score: 6.3

Robin and Marian

Score: 6.3

This England

Score: 6.2

Gone to Earth

Score: 6.2

Holiday Camp

Score: 6.1

The Silver Fleet

Score: 6.0

Decision at Midnight

Score: 6.0

Dandy Dick

Score: 5.8

Uncle Silas

Score: 5.8

Crime Unlimited

Score: 5.8

The Steel Key

Score: 5.5

The Vicar of Bray

Score: 5.5

Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

Score: 5.4

The Boy Who Turned Yellow

Score: 5.4

Waltzes from Vienna

Score: 5.3

Drake's Venture

Score: 5.0

The End of the River

Score: 5.0

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Score: 4.6

Battle of the V-1

Score: 4.5

Girls Will Be Boys

Score: 4.3

Yellow Dog

Score: 2.2

Full Circle

Score: 0.0

Romany Love

Score: 0.0

The Ringer

Score: 0.0

Deadlock

Score: 0.0

77 Park Lane

Score: 0.0

The Blue Peter

Score: 0.0

Father and Son

Score: 0.0

Someday

Score: 0.0

The Bermondsey Kid

Score: 0.0

Pagliacci

Score: 0.0

The Winter's Tale

Score: 0.0

Weddings Are Wonderful

Score: 0.0

Black Roses

Score: 0.0

The Blue Squadron

Score: 0.0

The Parachute

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

I, Claudius

Score: 7.8

Public Eye

Score: 7.8

Elizabeth R

Score: 7.4

The Saint

Score: 7.3

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Score: 7.3

Return of the Saint

Score: 7.0

Z-Cars

Score: 7.0

Gideon's Way

Score: 6.8

Interpol Calling

Score: 6.7

This Is Your Life

Score: 6.4

Fortunes of War

Score: 6.4

The Champions

Score: 6.1

My Cousin Rachel

Score: 6.0

1990

Score: 6.0

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

Score: 6.0

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Score: 5.2

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Score: 5.2

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Score: 5.2

A for Andromeda

Score: 5.0

Barnaby Rudge

Score: 5.0

BBC Play of the Month

Score: 5.0

Softly, Softly

Score: 5.0

An Age of Kings

Score: 4.7

The Count of Monte Cristo

Score: 4.4

Cousin Bette

Score: 3.5

Bedtime Stories

Score: 0.0

Detective

Score: 0.0

Nicholas Nickleby

Score: 0.0

Quiller

Score: 0.0

Festival

Score: 0.0

King of the River

Score: 0.0