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

• Fortunes of War — Liversage
• Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder — Mr. Galbraith
• 1987Superman IV: The Quest for Peace — Second Elder
• 1984A Voyage Round My Father — Judge
• 1984The Element of Crime — Osborne
• The Invisible Man — Blind Man
• 1983King Lear — Old Man
• My Cousin Rachel — Sam Bates
• Fame Is the Spur — Old Etchells
• 1981Antony & Cleopatra — Lepidus
• 1981Troilus & Cressida — Priam
• 1980Drake's Venture — John Dee
• Rebecca — Coroner
• Return of the Saint — Paul Hanson
• 1978Romeo and Juliet — Old Capulet
• The BBC Television Shakespeare — Old Capulet
• 1990 — Mitchell
• Supernatural — Sir Charles
• 1977The Man in the Iron Mask — Armand
• I, Claudius — Domitius
• 1976Robin and Marian — Old Defender
• Quiller — General Pickford
• Bedtime Stories — Vere Rawley
• Churchill's People — Penda's Father
• Fall of Eagles — General Ruzski
• Wessex Tales — Conjuror Trendle
• 1973Yellow Dog — Mundt
• Arthur of the Britons — Athel
• New Scotland Yard — General Travers
• 1972The Boy Who Turned Yellow — Doctor
• Cousin Bette — General Hulot, Marshal Hulot
• Elizabeth R — Bishop de Quadra
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes — Captain Cutler
• 1969Anne of the Thousand Days — Kingston
• 1969Doctor Who: The Space Pirates — Dom Issigri
• Softly Softly: Task Force — Mr. Justice Ruddy
• 1969Where's Jack? — Ballad Singer
• The Champions — Minister
• 1968The Parachute — Helmut
• 1968The Winter's Tale — Camillo
• King of the River — Donner
• Lord Raingo — Sid Jenkin
• The Spies — General Loren
• BBC Play of the Month — Helmut
• Gideon's Way — Robson
• Public Eye — Dr. Stowe
• 1965The Spy Who Came In from the Cold — Old Judge
• The Troubleshooters — Foss
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — President
• Detective — Commodore Rupert Gill, Albert, Ernest Guppy
• The Protectors — Pearce Kettner
• 1963Decision at Midnight — Peter Hauser
• Doctor Who — Dom Issigri
• Festival — Chorus
• Dr. Finlay's Casebook — Colonel Grahame, Hugh Armitage
• The Saint — Antoine Louvois
• Z-Cars — Albert Wallace
• A for Andromeda — Professor Ernest Reinhart
• An Age of Kings — Jack Cade
• Barnaby Rudge — Dennis, the Hangman
• Danger Man — Baron
• 1960Peeping Tom — Arthur Baden
• 1960Sink the Bismarck! — Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
• Sunday-Night Play — Harold P. Jackman
• Interpol Calling — Von Schriber
• The Third Man — Theodore Ratteau
• 1958Battle of the V-1 — Stricker
• The Invisible Man — Wilson
• Nicholas Nickleby — Wackford Squeers. Sr
• Sailor of Fortune — Oberon
• 1957The Prince and the Showgirl — Hoffman
• Armchair Theatre — Uncle Karl
• 1956Helen of Troy — High Priest
• The Count of Monte Cristo — Gustav
• 1955The Dark Avenger — Dialogue Coach
• 1953Full Circle
• 1953The Steel Key — Prof. Newman
• 1952Girdle of Gold — Evans the Milk
• 1951The River — The Father
• 1951Without Fear — Narrator (voice)
• 1950Gone to Earth — Abel Woodus
• Sunday Night Theatre — Bubnov, a Capmaker, Major Kartuschke, Legal Officer
• 1948Hamlet — Bernardo
• 1948The Red Shoes — Livy
• 1947Black Narcissus — The Old General
• 1947Holiday Camp — Camp Announcer
• 1947The End of the River — Dantos
• 1947Uncle Silas — Dr. Bryerly
• 1944A Canterbury Tale — Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
• 1944Henry V — Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
• 1944The Halfway House — David Davies
• 1943The Silver Fleet — Von Schiffer
• 1941This England — Vicar's Son
• 1940Contraband — Mr. Pidgeon
• 1939The Arsenal Stadium Mystery — Raille
• 1938Weddings Are Wonderful — Guy Rogers
• 1938What Men Live By — Michael
• 1937The Vicar of Bray — Dennis Melross
• 1936Black Roses — Pavo Collin
• 1936Pagliacci — Cadet Silvio
• 1935Crime Unlimited — Pete Borden
• 1935Dandy Dick — Tony Mardon
• 1935Father and Son — Michael Bolton
• 1935Someday — Curly Blake
• 1934Girls Will Be Boys — Geoffrey Dawson
• 1934The Blue Squadron — Captain Carlo Banti
• 1934Waltzes from Vienna — Johann Strauss, the Younger
• 1933The Bermondsey Kid — Eddie Martin
• 193177 Park Lane — Philip Connor
• 1931Deadlock — John Tring
• 1931Romany Love — Davy Summers
• 1931The Ringer — John Lenley
• 1928The Blue Peter — Radio operator

Appearances as themselves (1)

• This Is Your Life — Self