Rosalind Knight
Actor
Born December 3, 1933 in Marylebone, London, England, UK
Born in Marylebone, London, versatile character actress Rosalind Marie Knight was born to theatrical parentage. Her father was the accomplished thespian Esmond Knight. Her mother, the comedienne Frances Clare, often featured in Ivor Novello operettas. Rosalind's interest in theatre was first kindled at the age of six when she and her mother attended a staging of Novello's "The Dancing Years" at Drury Lane. Rosalind was evacuated to the countryside with her nanny during the war years. In 1949, she accompanied her father to the Old Vic Theatre and became enthralled by a production of "The Snow Queen", primarily performed by drama school novices. The following year she won an audition and spent two years at the Old Vic Theatre School. This was succeeded by a lengthy apprenticeship in repertory which led to her gaining further experience as assistant stage manager for the West of England Theatre Company, the Midland Theatre Company in Coventry and the Piccolo Theatre Company in Manchester. In 1955, she made her first impact on screen as a lady-in-waiting in Laurence Olivier's Richard III (1955), which also featured her father in the cast. A year later, having come to the attention of a movie producer, she played Annabel, one of the schoolgirls, in Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957) (decades later, she would return as a teacher in the sequel The Wildcats of St. Trinian's (1980)). This set the tone for a number of subsequent comedic roles which included a couple of early Carry On's and the Tony Richardson-directed Tom Jones (1963), in which she played the giddy Mrs. Harriet Fitzpatrick. While doing the Carry On films she was not under any form of contract and was paid a mere $50 a week. In 1957, Rosalind joined her father in an early BBC adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby (1957) as the spiteful Fanny Squeers. In a later miniseries based on Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1964), she was a splendidly shrewish Charity Pecksniff.
Filmography
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
Horrible Grandma (archive footage)
The Crown
Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark
The Lady in the Van
Old Nun
The Lost World Cup
Friday Night Dinner
Cynthia Goodman
Sherlock
Grace
The Shell Seekers
Mrs. Croftway
Cheeky
Pam
About a Boy
Lindsey's Mum
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Hag Woman
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Beryl Merit
What's a Carry On?
Miss Felicity Wheeler (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gunslinger's Revenge
Miss Willow
Berkeley Square
Great Aunt Effie
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Mrs. D'Urberville
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Mrs. D'Urberville
Midsomer Murders
Eleanor Macpherson
Dalziel and Pascoe
Brigid Stewart
Solitaire for 2
Receptionist
Harry Enfield and Chums
Lady Fotherington Carstairs
Pleasure
Madame Desneuves
Wycliffe
Mrs. Prentice
Royal Celebration
Mrs. Maynard
Swords at Teatime
Shirley
Heartbeat
Edith Benton
Afraid of the Dark
Edith
In Suspicious Circumstances
Agnes
Jeeves and Wooster
Dame Daphne
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Georgina Morley
Claws
Mrs Hargreaves
Watching
Mrs. Lloyd Roberts
Prick Up Your Ears
RADA Judge
The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams
Nurse Stronach
Mapp & Lucia
La Contessa Amelia Faraglione
Sherlock Holmes
Countess of Morcar
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Countess of Morcar
Diana
Mrs Eggins
Up the Elephant and Round the Castle
Mrs London
The Disappearance of Harry
Dr Abbeydale
Nancy Astor
Margot Asquith
The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
Matron
The Wildcats of St Trinian's
Miss Walsh
The Lady Vanishes
Evelyn Barnes
That's Carry On!
Miss Felicity Wheeler (archive footage)
It Could Happen to You
Mrs Ramlin
The Old Curiosity Shop
Mrs. George
Eskimo Nell
Lady Longhorn
Playhouse
Mrs. Mattison
Baby Blues
Sister Maidenhead
Crown Court
Felicity Price
Start the Revolution Without Me
Helene de Sisi
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Critic Bentley
Diamonds for Breakfast
Museum Visitor in Pink Dress (uncredited)
On the Eve of Publication
Barbara
Nicholas Nickleby
Miss Snevellicci
Not in Front of the Children
Biddy
The Wednesday Play
Barbara
Martin Chuzzlewit
Tom Jones
Mrs. Fitzpatrick
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Kitchen
Daphne
There Was a Crooked Man
Nurse
Doctor in Love
Doctor (uncredited)
Carry On Teacher
Miss Felicity Wheeler
Carry On Nurse
Student Nurse Nightingale
The Horse's Mouth
Art Student (uncredited)
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
Annabel
Fortune Is a Woman
(uncredited)