Birthday
1906/05/04
Day of death
1987/02/23 (80 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
East Sheen, Surrey, England
Also know as
Esmond Penington Knight, Эсмонд Найт
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 ...Read more
(1960) Peeping Tom
as Arthur Baden
(1969) Anne of the Thousand Days
as Kingston
(1948) Hamlet
as Bernardo
(1984) The Element of Crime
as Osborne
(1963) Decision at Midnight
as ---
(1965) The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
as Old Judge
(1935) Crime Unlimited
as Pete Borden
(1968) The Parachute
as Helmut
(1951) The River
as The Father
(1947) Black Narcissus
as The Old General
(1960) Sink the Bismarck!
as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
(1948) The Red Shoes
as Livy
(1934) The Blue Squadron
as ---
(1934) Waltzes from Vienna
as Johann Strauss, the Younger
(1947) Uncle Silas
as Dr. Bryerly
(1950) Gone to Earth
as Abel Woodus
(1940) Contraband
as Mr. Pidgeon
(1943) The Silver Fleet
as Von Schiffer
(1977) The Man in the Iron Mask
as Armand
(1973) Yellow Dog
as Mundt
(1935) Dandy Dick
as Tony Mardon
(1936) Black Roses
as Pavo Collin
(1937) The Vicar of Bray
as Dennis Melross
(1941) This England
as Vicar's Son
(1938) Weddings Are Wonderful
as Guy Rogers
(1947) The End of the River
as Dantos
(1947) Holiday Camp
as Camp Announcer
(1934) Girls Will Be Boys
as Geoffrey Dawson
(1944) A Canterbury Tale
as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
(1939) The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
as Raille
(1952) Girdle of Gold
as Evans the Milk
(1972) The Boy Who Turned Yellow
as Doctor
(1968) The Winter's Tale
as Camillo
(1936) Pagliacci
as Cadet Silvio
(1933) The Bermondsey Kid
as Eddie Martin
(1958) Battle of the V-1
as Stricker
(1944) Henry V
as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
(1969) Where's Jack?
as Ballad Singer
(1935) Someday
as Curly Blake
(1935) Father and Son
as Michael Bolton
(1944) The Halfway House
as David Davies
(1928) The Blue Peter
as Radio operator
(1981) Troilus & Cressida
as Priam
(1931) 77 Park Lane
as Philip Connor
(1984) A Voyage Round My Father
as Judge
(1931) Deadlock
as John Tring
(1931) The Ringer
as John Lenley
(1931) Romany Love
as Davy Summers
(1957) The Prince and the Showgirl
as Hoffman
(1938) What Men Live By
as Michael
(1978) Romeo & Juliet
as Old Capulet
(1976) Robin and Marian
as Old Defender
(1956) Helen of Troy
as High Priest
(1981) Antony & Cleopatra
as Lepidus
(1953) The Steel Key
as Prof. Newman
(1969) Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
as Dom Issigri
(1987) Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Second Elder
(1980) Drake's Venture
as John Dee
(1953) Full Circle
as ---
(1971) Elizabeth R
as Bishop de Quadra
(1966) Softly, Softly
as ---
(1962) Z-Cars
as ---
(1965) Gideon's Way
as Robson
(1962) The Saint
as Antoine Louvois
(1959) Interpol Calling
as Von Schriber
(1976) I, Claudius
as ---
(1968) The Champions
as Minister
(1962) Dr. Finlay's Casebook
as ---
(1966) King of the River
as ---
(1956) The Count of Monte Cristo
as ---
(1971) The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Captain Cutler
(1977) 1990
as ---
(1963) Festival
as Chorus
(1960) An Age of Kings
as ---
(1983) My Cousin Rachel
as Sam Bates
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Helmut
(1975) Quiller
as General Pickford
(1987) Fortunes of War
as Liversage
(1957) Nicholas Nickleby
as ---
(1978) The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Old Capulet
(1964) Detective
as ---
(1960) Barnaby Rudge
as ---
(1974) Bedtime Stories
as Vere Rawley
(1978) Return of the Saint
as Paul Hanson
(1971) Cousin Bette
as General Hulot
(1965) Public Eye
as Dr. Stowe
(1961) A for Andromeda
as Professor Ernest Reinhart
(1955) This Is Your Life
as Self