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Esmond Knight

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British actor (1906-1987)

United KingdomActorsLived 1906 to 1987 · aged 80
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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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Filmography 40

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace1987 · ★ 4.6
Peeping Tom1960 · ★ 7.5
The Red Shoes1948 · ★ 8.0
Black Narcissus1947 · ★ 7.5
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold1965 · ★ 7.1
Robin and Marian1976 · ★ 6.3
Hamlet1948 · ★ 7.4
The Prince and the Showgirl1957 · ★ 6.4
The Element of Crime1984 · ★ 6.4
Sink the Bismarck!1960 · ★ 6.9
Anne of the Thousand Days1969 · ★ 7.1
Henry V1944 · ★ 6.7
The River1951 · ★ 7.3
Helen of Troy1956 · ★ 6.3
A Canterbury Tale1944 · ★ 6.9
The Man in the Iron Mask1977 · ★ 6.4
Waltzes from Vienna1934 · ★ 5.4
Gone to Earth1950
The Halfway House1944
Contraband1940
Uncle Silas1947
King Lear1983
The Boy Who Turned Yellow1972
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery1939
Holiday Camp1947
The Silver Fleet1943
Romeo and Juliet1978
A Voyage Round My Father1984
Crime Unlimited1935
Battle of the V-11958
Yellow Dog1973
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates1969
The Steel Key1953
This England1941
Antony & Cleopatra1981
Drake's Venture1980
Girdle of Gold1952
Girls Will Be Boys1934
Dandy Dick1935
Where's Jack?1969

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Television 24

Doctor Who1963
The Saint1962
BBC Play of the Month1965
Z-Cars1962
The Champions1968
Danger Man1960
I, Claudius1976
Dr. Finlay's Casebook1962
This Is Your Life1955
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes1971
Thirty-Minute Theatre1965
Gideon's Way1965
Public Eye1965
Sunday Night Theatre1950
The Third Man1959
Return of the Saint1978
The BBC Television Shakespeare1978
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder1987
The Count of Monte Cristo1956
Fall of Eagles1974
Elizabeth R1971
Fortunes of War1987
The Troubleshooters1965
Supernatural1977

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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.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1906 to 1987 · aged 80
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16 languages

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