Esmond Knight
Actor
Born May 4, 1906 in East Sheen, Surrey, England
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.
Filmography
Fortunes of War
Liversage
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Second Elder
Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder
Mr. Galbraith
The Invisible Man
Blind Man
The Element of Crime
Osborne
A Voyage Round My Father
Judge
King Lear
Old Man
My Cousin Rachel
Sam Bates
Troilus & Cressida
Priam
Antony & Cleopatra
Lepidus
Drake's Venture
John Dee
Rebecca
Coroner
Romeo and Juliet
Old Capulet
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Old Capulet
Return of the Saint
Paul Hanson
1990
Mitchell
The Man in the Iron Mask
Armand
Supernatural
Sir Charles
I, Claudius
Domitius
Robin and Marian
Old Defender
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
Elizabeth R
Bishop de Quadra
Anne of the Thousand Days
Kingston
Softly Softly: Task Force
Mr. Justice Ruddy
Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
Dom Issigri
Where's Jack?
Ballad Singer
The Champions
Minister
The Winter's Tale
Camillo
The Parachute
Helmut
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
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
Decision at Midnight
Peter Hauser
Doctor Who
Dom Issigri
The Saint
Antoine Louvois
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Colonel Grahame
Z-Cars
Albert Wallace
A for Andromeda
Professor Ernest Reinhart
Barnaby Rudge
Dennis, the Hangman
Danger Man
Baron
An Age of Kings
Jack Cade
Peeping Tom
Arthur Baden
Sink the Bismarck!
Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
The Third Man
Theodore Ratteau
Interpol Calling
Von Schriber
The Invisible Man
Wilson
Battle of the V-1
Stricker
The Prince and the Showgirl
Hoffman
Armchair Theatre
Uncle Karl
The Count of Monte Cristo
Gustav
Helen of Troy
High Priest
This Is Your Life
Self
The Dark Avenger
The Steel Key
Prof. Newman
Girdle of Gold
Evans the Milk
The River
The Father
Gone to Earth
Abel Woodus
Sunday Night Theatre
Bubnov, a Capmaker
Hamlet
Bernardo
The Red Shoes
Livy
The End of the River
Dantos
Uncle Silas
Dr. Bryerly
Holiday Camp
Camp Announcer
Black Narcissus
The Old General
Henry V
Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
A Canterbury Tale
Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
The Halfway House
David Davies
The Silver Fleet
Von Schiffer
This England
Vicar's Son
Contraband
Mr. Pidgeon
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Raille
Pagliacci
Cadet Silvio
Crime Unlimited
Pete Borden
Dandy Dick
Tony Mardon
Girls Will Be Boys
Geoffrey Dawson
Waltzes from Vienna
Johann Strauss, the Younger
Deadlock
John Tring
77 Park Lane
Philip Connor