Esmond Knight

Infobox Actor
name = Esmond Knight

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caption = Esmond Knight as Fluellen (1944)
birthname = Esmond Penington Knight
birthdate = birth date|1906|5|4|df=yes
birthplace = East Sheen, Surrey, England
deathdate = death date and age|1987|2|23|1906|5|4|df=yes
deathplace = London, England
occupation = Actor, dialogue coach
yearsactive = 1928-1987
spouse = Nora Swinburne (1946-1987)
Frances Clare (1929-1946)
homepage = http://www.esmondknight.org.uk/

Esmond Penington Knight (4 May, 1906 – 23 February, 1987) was an English actor.

He was probably best known for his role as Professor Ernest Reinhartin the 1961 British science fiction drama, "A for Andromeda", alongside Patricia Kneale and Peter Halliday.

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 was attacked by the Bismarck, 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 died of a heart attack. His daughter is the actress Rosalind Knight.

Work

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*"The Wild Duck" - Pax Robertson's Salon, London (1925)
*Various Shakespeare productions - full season, Old Vic (1926)
*Various productions - Children's Theatre, London (1928)
*"Hamlet" - Queen's Theatre, London (with John Gielgud and Donald Wolfit) (930)
*Full Season - King's Theatre, Hammersmith (1939)
*Full Season - Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon (1948-1949)
*"Caesar and Cleopatra" - St James's Theatre, London (with Laurence Olivier, Peter Cushing and Vivien Leigh) (1951)
*"The Emperor's New Clothes" - Ethel Barrymore Theater, New York (with Lee J. Cobb) (1953)
*Full Season - The Old Vic, London (1962-1963)
*"The Family Reunion" - Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester (with Edward Fox) (1973 & 1979)
*"Moby-Dick"- Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester (with Edward Fox) (1983-1984)

Filmography

*"The Blue Peter" (1929)
*"The Bermondsey Kid" (1933)
*"Crime Unlimited" (1935)
*"The Arsenal Stadium Mystery" (1939)
*"Contraband" (1940)
*"The Silver Fleet" (1943)
*"Henry V" (1944)
*"A Canterbury Tale" (1944)
*"Black Narcissus" (1947)
*"The Red Shoes" (1948)
*"Hamlet" (1948)
*"Gone to Earth" (1950)
*"The River" (1951)
*"Richard III" (1954)
*"The Prince and the Showgirl" (1957)
*"Peeping Tom" (1960)
*"Sink the Bismarck!" (1960)
*"The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" (1965)
*"Anne of the Thousand Days" (1969)
*"Robin and Marian" (1976)
*"The Element of Crime" (1984)
*"" (1987)

Television

*"Arrow to the Heart" (1952)
*"Nicholas Nickleby" (1957)
*"A for Andromeda" (1961)
*"Danger Man "(1961)
*"The Third Man" (1965)
*"Doctor Who" - (The Space Pirates) (1969)
*"Z-Cars" (1969)
*"She Stoops to Conquer" (1971)
*"Elizabeth R" (1971)
*"I, Claudius" (1976)
*"Return of the Saint" (1978)
*"The Borgias" (1981)
*"Troilus and Cressida" (1981)
*"Antony and Cleopatra" (1981)
*"A Voyage Round My Father" (1982)
*"Blott on the Landscape" (1985)
*"Fortunes of War" (1987)

External links

*imdb|0460874
*Screenonline name|id=449286|name=Esmond Knight biography and credits