Esmond Knight
Actor, Film actor
1906 – 1987
Who was Esmond Knight?
Esmond Penington Knight 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. He played Captain John Leach of HMS Prince of Wales in the 1960 film Sink the Bismarck!
Esmond was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1957 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the King's Theatre in Hammersmith, London.
He starred as Professor Ernest Reinhart in the 1961 British science fiction television series, A for Andromeda, alongside Patricia Kneale and Peter Halliday.
Knight died of a heart attack and was cremated. His daughter is the actress Rosalind Knight.
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- Born
- May 4, 1906
East Sheen - Also known as
- Esmond Penington Knight
- Spouses
- Frances Clare
(1929/01/19 - 1946) - Nora Swinburne
(1946/10/04 - 1987/02/23)
- Frances Clare
- Children
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Lived in
- East Sheen
- London
- Died
- Feb 23, 1987
London
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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