Where to watch Esmond Knight in the UK
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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. …
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- Doctor Who (1963) as Dom Issigri
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Helmut
- The Saint (1962) as Antoine Louvois
- Z-Cars (1962) as Albert Wallace
- Churchill's People (1974) as Penda's Father
- Sunday Night Theatre (1950) as Bubnov, a Capmaker
- The Champions (1968) as Minister
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962) as Colonel Grahame
- Return of the Saint (1978) as Paul Hanson
- Danger Man (1960) as Baron
- Festival (1963) as Chorus
- Interpol Calling (1959) as Von Schriber
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) as President
- Public Eye (1965) as Dr. Stowe
- Gideon's Way (1965) as Robson
- Sunday-Night Play (1960) as Harold P. Jackman
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971) as Captain Cutler
- I, Claudius (1976) as Domitius
- The Troubleshooters (1965) as Foss
- The Third Man (1959) as Theodore Ratteau
- An Age of Kings (1960) as Jack Cade
- Softly Softly: Task Force (1969) as Mr. Justice Ruddy
- Detective (1964) as Commodore Rupert Gill
- Fall of Eagles (1974) as General Ruzski
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1956) as Gustav
- This Is Your Life (1955) as Self
- King of the River (1966) as Donner
- Fortunes of War (1987) as Liversage
- 1990 (1977) as Mitchell
- The Invisible Man (1958) as Wilson
- Supernatural (1977) as Sir Charles
- Elizabeth R (1971) as Bishop de Quadra
- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) as Second Elder
- Quiller (1975) as General Pickford
- Miss Marple (1984) as Mr. Galbraith
- Bedtime Stories (1974) as Vere Rawley
- Rebecca (1979) as Coroner
- Wessex Tales (1973) as Conjuror Trendle
- Sink the Bismarck! (1960) as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
- Arthur of the Britons (1972) as Athel
- Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) as Mr. Galbraith
- The Red Shoes (1948) as Livy
- The Invisible Man (1984) as Blind Man
- Peeping Tom (1960) as Arthur Baden
- Helen of Troy (1956) as High Priest
- A for Andromeda (1961) as Professor Ernest Reinhart
- Cousin Bette (1971) as General Hulot
- Nicholas Nickleby (1957) as Wackford Squeers. Sr
- The Spies (1966) as General Loren
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) as Old Judge
- Armchair Theatre (1956) as Uncle Karl
- Hamlet (1948) as Bernardo
- The Protectors (1964) as Pearce Kettner
- The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) as Armand
- Robin and Marian (1976) as Old Defender
- Black Narcissus (1947) as The Old General
- Barnaby Rudge (1960) as Dennis, the Hangman
- Yellow Dog (1973) as Mundt
- Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) as Kingston
- Henry V (1944) as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
- The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) as Hoffman
- King Lear (1983) as Old Man
- The River (1951) as The Father
- Gone to Earth (1950) as Abel Woodus
- The Dark Avenger (1955) Dialogue Coach
- Contraband (1940) as Mr. Pidgeon
- The Element of Crime (1984) as Osborne
- Romeo and Juliet (1978) as Old Capulet
- My Cousin Rachel (1983) as Sam Bates
- A Canterbury Tale (1944) as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
- Uncle Silas (1947) as Dr. Bryerly
- The Halfway House (1944) as David Davies
- Holiday Camp (1947) as Camp Announcer
- Antony & Cleopatra (1981) as Lepidus
- The Silver Fleet (1943) as Von Schiffer
- A Voyage Round My Father (1984) as Judge
- Where's Jack? (1969) as Ballad Singer
- The Ringer (1931) as John Lenley
- Waltzes from Vienna (1934) as Johann Strauss, the Younger
- Battle of the V-1 (1958) as Stricker
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Most-watched Esmond Knight films currently: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), The Red Shoes (1948), Peeping Tom (1960), Helen of Troy (1956).
What TV shows has Esmond Knight appeared in?
Selected TV credits: Doctor Who (1963), BBC Play of the Month (1965), The Saint (1962), Z-Cars (1962), Churchill's People (1974).
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