Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
57
Gender
Male
Birthday
May 04, 1906 ( 81 years old )
Place of Birth
East Sheen, Surrey, England
Also Known As
Esmond Penington Knight
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Esmond Knight
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.
Known For
Peeping Tom
1960-05-16Anne of the Thousand Days
1969-12-18Hamlet
1948-12-10Forbrydelsens element
1984-05-14Decision at Midnight
1963-12-12The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965-12-16Crime Unlimited
1935-08-01The Parachute
1968-01-21The River
1951-09-10Black Narcissus
1947-05-26