# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/esmond-knight
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:22:25.858Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/esmond-knight"
name: "Esmond Knight"
slug: "esmond-knight"
description: "Esmond Penington Knight was an English actor. He had a successful stage and film career before World War II. For much of his later career Knight was half-blind. He had been badly wounded in 1941 while 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."
tagline: "British actor (1906–1987)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Esmond_knight.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1906-05-04"
deathDate: "1987-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.297704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0460874/"
    handle:    "nm0460874"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Esmond Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esmond_Knight"
    title: "Esmond Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Esmond Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Esmond Knight"
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    title: "Esmond Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Esmond Knight"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Esmond Knight"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Esmond Knight"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump