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Esmond Knight
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Biography
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.
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The Red Shoes
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Element of Crime
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Helen of Troy
As High Priest
Peeping Tom
As Arthur Baden
Anne of the Thousand Days
As Kingston
The River
As The Father
The Man in the Iron Mask
As Armand
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Art of the Unresolved
From the sun-bleached streets of Los Angeles to the fog-bound docks of Hamburg, these eight films turn the detective story inside out, leaving questions hanging...
8 films
The Art of the Fall
From viral infamy to quiet vindication: a chain of films about bold artists whose audacity is mistaken for failure, tracing the same arc that turned Raygun from...
8 films
Dancing Against the Current: Eight Films of Rebellion in Motion
From the steel mills of Pittsburgh to the streets of Baltimore, these films trace the dancer's fight for selfhood against the weight of expectation. A curated j...
8 films
Love in the Time of Espionage
From Berlin to Buenos Aires, a journey through films where romance and espionage entwine, revealing the human cost of secrets.
7 films
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The Element of Crime
1984 · Osborne
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977 · Armand
Robin and Marian
1976 · Old Defender
Anne of the Thousand Days
1969 · Kingston
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965 · Old Judge
Peeping Tom
1960 · Arthur Baden
Helen of Troy
1956 · High Priest
The River
1951 · The Father
Hamlet
1948 · Bernardo
The Red Shoes
1948 · Livy
Black Narcissus
1947 · The Old General
Henry V
1944 · Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
The Halfway House
1944 · David Davies