Esmond Knight
British actor (1906-1987) · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Died at 80
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.
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Superman IV: The Quest for PeaceFilm, 1987Second Elder1983
King LearFilm, Old Man1980
Drake's VentureFilm, John Dee1978
Return of the SaintSeries, Paul Hanson1977
The Man in the Iron MaskFilm, Armand1974
Churchill's PeopleSeries, Penda's Father1972
New Scotland YardSeries, General Travers
The Boy Who Turned YellowFilm, 1972Doctor1969
Softly Softly: Task ForceSeries, Mr. Justice Ruddy1968
The ChampionsSeries, Minister1965
The Spy Who Came In from the ColdFilm, Old Judge1963
Doctor WhoSeries, Dom Issigri1962
Dr. Finlay's CasebookSeries, Colonel Grahame1959
Interpol CallingSeries, Von Schriber1958
Battle of the V-1Film, Stricker1956
The Count of Monte CristoSeries, Gustav
Helen of TroyFilm, 1956High Priest1952
Girdle of GoldFilm, Evans the Milk1950
Sunday Night TheatreSeries, Bubnov, a Capmaker
Gone to EarthFilm, 1950Abel Woodus1944
A Canterbury TaleFilm, Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot1941
This EnglandFilm, Vicar's Son1939
The Arsenal Stadium MysteryFilm, Raille1934
Girls Will Be BoysFilm, Geoffrey Dawson1906Born4 May 1906People around Esmond
Laurence Olivier Produced Hamlet, Henry V and Richard III
Michael Powell Directed Black Narcissus and A Canterbury Tale- Emeric Pressburger Directed The Red Shoes and A Canterbury Tale
- Irving Asher Produced Someday and Crime Unlimited
Patrick Troughton Also in Hamlet, Richard III and The Red Shoes
John Laurie Also in Hamlet, Richard III and Henry V
Niall MacGinnis Also in Henry V, Helen of Troy and Hamlet- Brian Easdale Wrote The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus
Charles Victor Also in Contraband and This England- Esma Cannon Also in Contraband and A Canterbury Tale
Jean Simmons Also in Hamlet, Black Narcissus and Uncle Silas
Ralph Richardson Also in Richard III and The Man in the Iron Mask
William Walton Wrote Hamlet, Henry V and Richard III- Robert Hardy Also in An Age of Kings
Cyril Cusack Also in Gone to Earth and The Wild Heart
Michael Hordern Also in Anne of the Thousand Days (1973)- George Cole Also in Gone to Earth and The Wild Heart
John Longden Also in Contraband and The Ringer
David Farrar Also in Gone to Earth and The Wild Heart- Vernon Sewell Directed The Silver Fleet (1945)
Russell Thorndike Also in Henry V, Richard III and Hamlet
John Paul Also in I, Claudius and Romeo and Juliet
Raymond Lovell Also in Crime Unlimited and Contraband
Norman Shelley Also in I, Claudius and Sink the Bismarck!
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The Red Shoes 1948
Black Narcissus 1947
Peeping Tom 1960
Hamlet 1948
Anne of the Thousand Days 1969
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
120 credits on file
Television 24
About this person
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.
