Esmond Knight
Biographie
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. 1943). He played the captain of the HMS Prince of Wales in the 1960 movie Sink the Bismarck!
He starred as Professor Ernest Reinhart in the 1961 British science fiction television series, A for Andromeda, alongside Patricia Kneale and Peter Halliday.
His daughter is the actress Rosalind Knight. Knight died of a heart attack. He was cremated.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Esmond Knight, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Biographie disponible en anglais sur la source TMDB.
Films et séries avec Esmond Knight
Doctor Who
BBC Play of the Month
Le Saint
This Is Your Life
Z-Cars
Destination Danger
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Les Champions
The Troubleshooters
An Age of Kings
Sunday Night Theatre
Les Rivaux de Sherlock Holmes
Churchill's People
The Count of Monte Cristo
Moi, Claude empereur
Ici interpol
New Scotland Yard
Detective
Superman IV : Le Face‐à‐face
Le Retour du Saint
Public Eye
