Esmond Knight

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1906-05-04 (81 years old)

Deathday

1987-02-23

Place of Birth

East Sheen, Surrey, England

Esmond Knight

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 ...

Acting

1960

Peeping Tom

as Arthur Baden

1948

Hamlet

as Bernardo

1984

1935

Crime Unlimited

as Pete Borden

1968

The Parachute

as Helmut

1951

The River

as The Father

1947

Black Narcissus

as The Old General

1960

Sink the Bismarck!

as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'

1948

1934

Waltzes from Vienna

as Johann Strauss, the Younger

1947

Uncle Silas

as Dr. Bryerly

1950

Gone to Earth

as Abel Woodus

1940

Contraband

as Mr. Pidgeon

1943

The Silver Fleet

as Von Schiffer

1973

Yellow Dog

as Mundt

1935

Dandy Dick

as Tony Mardon

1936

Black Roses

as Pavo Collin

1937

The Vicar of Bray

as Dennis Melross

1941

This England

as Vicar's Son

1938

1947

Holiday Camp

as Camp Announcer

1934

Girls Will Be Boys

as Geoffrey Dawson

1944

A Canterbury Tale

as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot

1952

Girdle of Gold

as Evans the Milk

1968

1936

Pagliacci

as Cadet Silvio

1933

The Bermondsey Kid

as Eddie Martin

1958

1944

Henry V

as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army

1969

Where's Jack?

as Ballad Singer

1935

Someday

as Curly Blake

1935

Father and Son

as Michael Bolton

1944

The Halfway House

as David Davies

1928

The Blue Peter

as Radio operator

1981

1931

77 Park Lane

as Philip Connor

1931

Deadlock

as John Tring

1931

The Ringer

as John Lenley

1931

Romany Love

as Davy Summers

1938

1978

Romeo and Juliet

as Old Capulet

1976

Robin and Marian

as Old Defender

1956

Helen of Troy

as High Priest

1981

1953

The Steel Key

as Prof. Newman

1980

Drake's Venture

as John Dee

1983

King Lear

as Old Man

Production

1955

The Dark Avenger

as Dialogue Coach

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