Esmond Knight
- Interprétation
- 4 mai 1906 · East Sheen, Surrey, England
- 23 février 1987
Biographie
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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Esmond Knight, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Fortunes of War · Liversage
- Superman IV : Le Face‐à‐face · Second Elder
- Miss Marple : La Dernière Énigme · Mr. Galbraith
- Blott on the Landscape · Sir Francis Puckerington
- The Invisible Man · Blind Man
- Element of crime · Osborne
- A Voyage Round My Father · Judge
- King Lear · Old Man
- My Cousin Rachel · Sam Bates
- Fame Is the Spur · Old Etchells
- Troilus & Cressida · Priam
- Antony & Cleopatra · Lepidus
- Drake's Venture · John Dee
- Rebecca · Coroner
- Romeo & Juliet · Old Capulet
- The BBC Television Shakespeare · Old Capulet
- Le Retour du Saint · Paul Hanson
- 1990 · Mitchell
- L'homme au masque de fer · Armand
- Supernatural · Sir Charles
- Moi, Claude empereur · Domitius
- La Rose et la Flèche · Old Defender
- Quiller · General Pickford
- Churchill's People · Penda's Father
- Fall of Eagles · General Ruzski
- Bedtime Stories · Vere Rawley
- Wessex Tales · Conjuror Trendle
- Yellow Dog · Mundt
- Arthur of the Britons · Athel
- The Boy Who Turned Yellow · Doctor
- New Scotland Yard · General Travers
- Les Rivaux de Sherlock Holmes · Captain Cutler
- Cousin Bette · General Hulot, Marshal Hulot
- Elizabeth R · Bishop de Quadra
- Anne des mille jours · Kingston
- Softly Softly: Task Force · Mr. Justice Ruddy
- Doctor Who: The Space Pirates · Dom Issigri
- Where's Jack? · Ballad Singer
- Les Champions · Minister
- The Winter's Tale · Camillo
- The Parachute · Helmut
- King of the River · Donner
- Lord Raingo · Sid Jenkin
- The Spies · General Loren
- L'Espion qui venait du froid · Old Judge
- BBC Play of the Month · Helmut
- Thirty-Minute Theatre · President
- The Troubleshooters · Foss
- Gideon's Way · Robson
- Public Eye · Dr. Stowe
- Detective · Commodore Rupert Gill, Albert
- The Protectors · Pearce Kettner
- Decision at Midnight · Peter Hauser
- Doctor Who · Dom Issigri
- Festival · Chorus
- Le Saint · Antoine Louvois
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook · Colonel Grahame, Hugh Armitage
- Z-Cars · Albert Wallace
- A for Andromeda · Professor Ernest Reinhart
- Barnaby Rudge · Dennis, the Hangman, Dennis
- Sunday-Night Play · Harold P. Jackman
- Destination Danger · Baron
- An Age of Kings · Jack Cade
- Le Voyeur · Arthur Baden
- Coulez le Bismarck ! · Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
- The Third Man · Theodore Ratteau
- Ici interpol · Von Schriber
- L'Homme invisible · Wilson
- La bataille des V.1 · Stricker
- Nicholas Nickleby · Wackford Squeers. Sr
- Le Prince et la Danseuse · Hoffman
- Sailor of Fortune · Oberon
- Armchair Theatre · Uncle Karl
- The Count of Monte Cristo · Gustav
- Hélène de Troie · High Priest
- This Is Your Life · En personne
- L'Armure noire · Dialogue Coach
- Full Circle
- The Steel Key · Prof. Newman
- Girdle of Gold · Evans the Milk