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Esmond Knight
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.
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As actor
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
The Element of Crime
A Voyage Round My Father
King Lear
Troilus & Cressida
Antony & Cleopatra
Drake's Venture
Romeo and Juliet
The Man in the Iron Mask
Robin and Marian
Yellow Dog
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
Anne of the Thousand Days
Where's Jack?
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
The Parachute
The Winter's Tale
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Decision at Midnight
Peeping Tom
Sink the Bismarck!
Battle of the V-1
The Prince and the Showgirl
Helen of Troy
The Steel Key
Full Circle
Girdle of Gold
The River
Without Fear
Gone to Earth