Esmond Penington Knight (4 May 1906 ā 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 early autobiography to his secretary, Annabella Cloudsley, Seeking The Bubble (Hutchinson & Co. 1943). He played the captain of the HMS Prince of Wales in the 1960 movie Sink the Bismarck!
He starred as Professor Ernest Reinhart in the 1961 British science fiction television series, A for Andromeda, alongside Patricia Kneale and Peter Halliday.
His daughter is the actress Rosalind Knight. Knight died of a heart attack. He was cremated.
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as Second Elder
as Mr. Galbraith(2 eps)
as Sir Francis Puckerington(3 eps)
as Blind Man(1 ep)
as Osborne
as Judge
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as Sam Bates(1 ep)
as Old Etchells(1 ep)
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as John Dee
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as Bishop de Quadra(1 ep)
as Kingston
as Mr. Justice Ruddy(1 ep)
as Dom Issigri
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as Donner(1 ep)
as Sid Jenkin(4 eps)
as General Loren(1 ep)
as Old Judge
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as Antoine Louvois(1 ep)
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as Hugh Armitage(1 ep)
as Albert Wallace(2 eps)
as Professor Ernest Reinhart(7 eps)
as Dennis, the Hangman(1 ep)
as Dennis(5 eps)
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as Arthur Baden
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as Wilson(1 ep)
as Stricker
as Wackford Squeers. Sr(6 eps)
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as Self(1 ep)
as Prof. Newman
as Evans the Milk
as The Father
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as Abel Woodus
as Bubnov, a Capmaker(1 ep)
as Major Kartuschke, Legal Officer(1 ep)
as Bernardo
as Livy
as Dantos
as Dr. Bryerly
as Camp Announcer
as The Old General
as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
as David Davies
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as Davy Summers
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