Esmond Knight
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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Filmography (98 Appearances)
Fortunes of War
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
The Invisible Man
The Element of Crime
A Voyage Round My Father
King Lear
My Cousin Rachel
Troilus & Cressida
Antony & Cleopatra
Drake's Venture
Rebecca
Romeo and Juliet
Return of the Saint
1990
The Man in the Iron Mask
Supernatural
I, Claudius
Robin and Marian
Quiller
Churchill's People
Fall of Eagles
Bedtime Stories
Wessex Tales
Yellow Dog
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Cousin Bette
Elizabeth R
Anne of the Thousand Days
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
Where's Jack?
The Champions
The Winter's Tale
The Parachute
King of the River
Softly, Softly
The Spies
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
BBC Play of the Month
Gideon's Way
Public Eye
Detective
Decision at Midnight
Festival
The Saint
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Z-Cars
A for Andromeda
Barnaby Rudge
Sunday-Night Play
An Age of Kings
Peeping Tom
Sink the Bismarck!
Interpol Calling
Battle of the V-1
Nicholas Nickleby
The Prince and the Showgirl
The Count of Monte Cristo
Helen of Troy
This Is Your Life
Full Circle
The Steel Key
Girdle of Gold
The River
Without Fear
Gone to Earth
Sunday Night Theatre
Hamlet
The Red Shoes
The End of the River
Uncle Silas
Holiday Camp
Black Narcissus
Henry V
A Canterbury Tale
The Halfway House
The Silver Fleet
This England
Contraband
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Weddings Are Wonderful
What Men Live By
The Vicar of Bray
Black Roses
Pagliacci
Someday
Crime Unlimited
Dandy Dick
Father and Son
The Blue Squadron
Girls Will Be Boys
Waltzes from Vienna
The Bermondsey Kid
Deadlock
77 Park Lane
The Ringer
Romany Love
The Blue Peter