Esmond Knight

Acting · Born 1906-05-04 in East Sheen, Surrey, England

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 Wales in the 1960 movie Sink the Bismarck! He starred as Professor Ernest Reinhart in the 1961 British science fiction television series, A for…

Filmography

• Peeping Tom as Arthur Baden
• Anne of the Thousand Days as Kingston
• Hamlet as Bernardo
• The Element of Crime as Osborne
• Decision at Midnight
• The Spy Who Came In from the Cold as Old Judge
• Crime Unlimited as Pete Borden
• The River as The Father
• Black Narcissus as The Old General
• Sink the Bismarck! as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'