Esmond Knight
Esmond Penington Knight was an English actor. He had a successful stage and film career before World War II. For much of his later career Knight was half-blind. He had been badly wounded in 1941 while 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.
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🎬 Movies
The Element of Crime
actor
1984
King Lear
actor
1983
Troilus & Cressida
actor
1981
The Man in the Iron Mask
actor
1977
Robin and Marian
actor
1976
Anne of the Thousand Days
actor
1969
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
actor
1965
Decision at Midnight
actor
1963
Peeping Tom
actor
1960
Sink the Bismarck!
actor
1960
Battle of the V-1
actor
1958
The Prince and the Showgirl
actor
1957
The River
actor
1951
Gone to Earth
actor
1950
Hamlet
actor
1948
The Red Shoes
actor
1948
Black Narcissus
actor
1947
Henry V
actor
1944
Contraband
actor
1940