Esmond Knight Born on May 4, 1906 · East Sheen, Surrey, England
† Died on February 23, 1987
27 Roles ★ 6.9 Average rating
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 y… Read more
Known for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace 1987 Peeping Tom 1960 The Red Shoes 1948 Doctor Who 1963 ★ 4.6 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace 1987
Second Elder Series ★ 7.4 Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder 1987
Mr. Galbraith ★ 6.4 The Element of Crime 1984
Osborne ★ 6.4 The Man in the Iron Mask 1977
Armand ★ 6.3 Robin and Marian 1976
Old Defender Series ★ 7.8 I, Claudius 1976
Domitius Series ★ 7.5 Elizabeth R 1971
Bishop de Quadra ★ 7.1 Anne of the Thousand Days 1969
Kingston Series ★ 6.5 The Champions 1968
Minister ★ 7.1 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold 1965
Old Judge Series ★ 7.9 Doctor Who 1963
Dom Issigri Series ★ 7.4 The Saint 1962
Antoine Louvois ★ 7.5 Peeping Tom 1960
Arthur Baden ★ 6.8 Sink the Bismarck! 1960
Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales' Series ★ 7.3 Danger Man 1960
Baron ★ 6.4 The Prince and the Showgirl 1957
Hoffman ★ 6.3 Helen of Troy 1956
High Priest ★ 7.2 The River 1951
The Father ★ 6.2 Gone to Earth 1950
Abel Woodus ★ 7.4 Hamlet 1948
Bernardo ★ 8 The Red Shoes 1948
Livy ★ 7.5 Black Narcissus 1947
The Old General ★ 6.9 A Canterbury Tale 1944
Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot ★ 6.7 Henry V 1944
Fluellen - Captain in the English Army ★ 6.5 The Halfway House 1944
David Davies ★ 7.1 Contraband 1940
Mr. Pidgeon ★ 5.4 Waltzes from Vienna 1934
Johann Strauss, the Younger 
