Esmond Knight
Actor · Dialogue Coach
Born May 4, 1906 · East Sheen, Surrey, England
Active 1928–1987
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.
Filmography
The Red Shoes (1948) — LivyDoctor Who (1963) — Dom IssigriPeeping Tom (1960) — Arthur BadenBlack Narcissus (1947) — The Old GeneralHamlet (1948) — BernardoThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) — Old JudgeI, Claudius (1976) — DomitiusThe Saint (1962) — Antoine LouvoisThe River (1951) — The FatherRobin and Marian (1976) — Old DefenderAnne of the Thousand Days (1969) — Conjuror Trendle · KingstonThe Element of Crime (1984) — OsborneA Canterbury Tale (1944) — Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village IdiotThe Prince and the Showgirl (1957) — HoffmanSuperman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) — Second ElderHenry V (1944) — Fluellen - Captain in the English ArmySink the Bismarck! (1960) — Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) — Mr. GalbraithThe Man in the Iron Mask (1977) — ArmandHelen of Troy (1956) — High PriestDanger Man (1960) — BaronElizabeth R (1971) — Bishop de QuadraContraband (1940) — Mr. PidgeonThe Halfway House (1944) — David Davies