Esmond Knight

ActorCrew May 4 (died age 80) East Sheen, Surrey, England 1928–1987 (59 year career)

6.2 avg rating

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 …

Known For

Film

The Red Shoes

Livy

Film

Peeping Tom

Arthur Baden

Film

Black Narcissus

The Old General

Film

Hamlet

Bernardo

Film

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Old Judge

Film

The River

The Father

Film

Robin and Marian

Old Defender

Film

The Element of Crime

Osborne

Filmography

Acting (104)

Movies (61)

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1987

as Second Elder

4.6

A Voyage Round My Father

as Judge

The Element of Crime

as Osborne

King Lear

as Old Man

Troilus & Cressida

as Priam

Antony & Cleopatra

as Lepidus

Drake's Venture

as John Dee

Romeo and Juliet

as Old Capulet

The Man in the Iron Mask

as Armand

Robin and Marian

as Old Defender

Yellow Dog

as Mundt

The Boy Who Turned Yellow

1972

as Doctor

5.4

Anne of the Thousand Days

as Kingston

Where's Jack?

as Ballad Singer

Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

1969

as Dom Issigri

5.2

The Winter's Tale

1968

as Camillo

The Parachute

1968

as Helmut

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

as Old Judge

Decision at Midnight

Peeping Tom

as Arthur Baden

Sink the Bismarck!

as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'

6.8

Battle of the V-1

1958

as Stricker

4.5

The Prince and the Showgirl

as Hoffman

Helen of Troy

as High Priest

The Steel Key

as Prof. Newman

Full Circle

Girdle of Gold

as Evans the Milk

The River

as The Father

Without Fear

as Narrator (voice)

Gone to Earth

as Abel Woodus

The Red Shoes

as Livy

Hamlet

as Bernardo

Black Narcissus

as The Old General

The End of the River

as Dantos

Uncle Silas

as Dr. Bryerly

Holiday Camp

as Camp Announcer

Henry V

as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army

6.7

A Canterbury Tale

1944

as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot

The Halfway House

as David Davies

The Silver Fleet

as Von Schiffer

This England

as Vicar's Son

Contraband

as Mr. Pidgeon

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

1939

as Raille

6.9

Weddings Are Wonderful

1938

as Guy Rogers

What Men Live By

as Michael

The Vicar of Bray

as Dennis Melross

Pagliacci

as Cadet Silvio

Black Roses

1936

as Pavo Collin

Crime Unlimited

1935

as Pete Borden

5.8

Father and Son

1935

as Michael Bolton

Dandy Dick

1935

as Tony Mardon

5.8

Someday

1935

as Curly Blake

The Blue Squadron

1934

as Captain Carlo Banti

Waltzes from Vienna

1934

as Johann Strauss, the Younger

Girls Will Be Boys

as Geoffrey Dawson

The Bermondsey Kid

as Eddie Martin

Romany Love

1931

as Davy Summers

77 Park Lane

1931

as Philip Connor

Deadlock

1931

as John Tring

The Ringer

1931

as John Lenley

The Blue Peter

1928

as Radio operator

Television (43)

Fortunes of War

1987

as Liversage

6.1

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder

as Mr. Galbraith

The Invisible Man

as Blind Man

Miss Marple

as Mr. Galbraith

My Cousin Rachel

as Sam Bates

Rebecca

as Coroner

Return of the Saint

as Paul Hanson

Supernatural

as Sir Charles

1990

I, Claudius

as Domitius

Quiller

as General Pickford

Churchill's People

as Penda's Father

Fall of Eagles

as General Ruzski

Bedtime Stories

as Vere Rawley

Wessex Tales

1973

as Conjuror Trendle

6.0

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

as Captain Cutler

Cousin Bette

as General Hulot

Elizabeth R

as Bishop de Quadra

Softly Softly: Task Force

as Mr. Justice Ruddy

The Champions

as Minister

Softly, Softly

King of the River

as Donner

The Spies

1966

as General Loren

BBC Play of the Month

as Helmut

Public Eye

as Dr. Stowe

Gideon's Way

as Robson

The Troubleshooters

as Foss

Thirty-Minute Theatre

as President

Detective

The Protectors

as Pearce Kettner

Festival

as Chorus

The Saint

as Antoine Louvois

Z-Cars

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

1962

6.0

A for Andromeda

1961

as Professor Ernest Reinhart

5.0

Sunday-Night Play

1960

as Harold P. Jackman

An Age of Kings

Barnaby Rudge

Interpol Calling

as Von Schriber

Nicholas Nickleby

The Count of Monte Cristo

This Is Your Life

as Self

Sunday Night Theatre

as Bubnov, a Capmaker

3.5

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

The Dark Avenger

1955

Dialogue Coach

6.0