Esmond Knight
Acting
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.
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Second Elder
The Element of Crime
Osborne
A Voyage Round My Father
Judge
King Lear
Old Man
Troilus & Cressida
Priam
Antony & Cleopatra
Lepidus
Drake's Venture
John Dee
Romeo and Juliet
Old Capulet
The Man in the Iron Mask
Armand
Robin and Marian
Old Defender
Yellow Dog
Mundt
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
Doctor
Anne of the Thousand Days
Kingston
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
Dom Issigri
Where's Jack?
Ballad Singer
The Winter's Tale
Camillo
The Parachute
Helmut
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Old Judge
Decision at Midnight
Peeping Tom
Arthur Baden
Sink the Bismarck!
Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
Battle of the V-1
Stricker
The Prince and the Showgirl
Hoffman
Helen of Troy
High Priest
Full Circle
The Steel Key
Prof. Newman
Girdle of Gold
Evans the Milk
The River
The Father
Without Fear
Narrator (voice)
Gone to Earth
Abel Woodus
Hamlet
Bernardo
The Red Shoes
Livy
The End of the River
Dantos
Uncle Silas
Dr. Bryerly
Holiday Camp
Camp Announcer
Black Narcissus
The Old General
Henry V
Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
A Canterbury Tale
Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
The Halfway House
David Davies
The Silver Fleet
Von Schiffer
This England
Vicar's Son
Contraband
Mr. Pidgeon
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Raille
Weddings Are Wonderful
Guy Rogers
What Men Live By
Michael
The Vicar of Bray
Dennis Melross
Black Roses
Pavo Collin
Pagliacci
Cadet Silvio
Someday
Curly Blake
Crime Unlimited
Pete Borden
Dandy Dick
Tony Mardon
Father and Son
Michael Bolton
The Blue Squadron
Captain Carlo Banti
Girls Will Be Boys
Geoffrey Dawson
Waltzes from Vienna
Johann Strauss, the Younger
The Bermondsey Kid
Eddie Martin
Deadlock
John Tring
77 Park Lane
Philip Connor
The Ringer
John Lenley
Romany Love
Davy Summers
The Blue Peter
Radio operator