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Esmond Knight

Acting

Born May 4, 1906 · East Sheen, Surrey, England

Died February 23, 1987

Also known as Esmond Penington Knight · Эсмонд Найт

Biography

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.

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Filmography29 titles

The Red Shoes

1948as Livy

Doctor Who

1963as Dom Issigri

I, Claudius

1976as Domitius

Romeo and Juliet

1978as Old Capulet

Elizabeth R

1971as Bishop de Quadra

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

1971as Captain Cutler

Peeping Tom

1960as Arthur Baden

Black Narcissus

1947as The Old General

A Voyage Round My Father

1984as Judge

The Saint

1962as Antoine Louvois

Hamlet

1948as Bernardo

Antony & Cleopatra

1981as Lepidus

Danger Man

1960as Baron

The Invisible Man

1958as Wilson

The River

1951as The Father

Anne of the Thousand Days

1969as Kingston

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

1965as Old Judge

Sink the Bismarck!

1960as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'

A Canterbury Tale

1944as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot

Henry V

1944as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army

The Champions

1968as Minister

The Halfway House

1944as David Davies

The Element of Crime

1984as Osborne

The Man in the Iron Mask

1977as Armand

Robin and Marian

1976as Old Defender

The Prince and the Showgirl

1957as Hoffman

Helen of Troy

1956as High Priest

The Boy Who Turned Yellow

1972as Doctor

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

1987as Second Elder