Esmond Knight
- Recitazione
- 4 maggio 1906 · East Sheen, Surrey, England
- 23 febbraio 1987
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Fortunes of War · Liversage
- Superman IV · Second Elder
- Addio miss Marple · Mr. Galbraith
- Blott on the Landscape · Sir Francis Puckerington
- The Invisible Man · Blind Man
- L'elemento del crimine · 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 and Juliet · Old Capulet
- The BBC Television Shakespeare · Old Capulet
- Il ritorno del Santo · Paul Hanson
- 1990 · Mitchell
- L'uomo dalla maschera di ferro · Armand
- Supernatural · Sir Charles
- I, Claudius · Domitius
- Robin e Marian · 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
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes · Captain Cutler
- Cousin Bette · General Hulot, Marshal Hulot
- Elisabetta Regina · Bishop de Quadra
- Anna dei mille giorni · Kingston
- Softly Softly: Task Force · Mr. Justice Ruddy
- Doctor Who: The Space Pirates · Dom Issigri
- Where's Jack? · Ballad Singer
- Tris d'assi · Minister
- The Winter's Tale · Camillo
- The Parachute · Helmut
- King of the River · Donner
- Lord Raingo · Sid Jenkin
- The Spies · General Loren
- La spia che venne dal freddo · 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
- Il Santo · 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
- Gioco pericoloso · Baron
- An Age of Kings · Jack Cade
- L'occhio che uccide · Arthur Baden
- Affondate la Bismarck! · Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
- The Third Man · Theodore Ratteau
- Interpol Calling · Von Schriber
- L'uomo invisibile · Wilson
- Battle of the V-1 · Stricker
- Nicholas Nickleby · Wackford Squeers. Sr
- Il principe e la ballerina · Hoffman
- Sailor of Fortune · Oberon
- Armchair Theatre · Uncle Karl
- The Count of Monte Cristo · Gustav
- Elena di Troia · High Priest
- This Is Your Life · In persona
- Il vendicatore nero · Dialogue Coach
- Full Circle
- The Steel Key · Prof. Newman
- Girdle of Gold · Evans the Milk