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Esmond Penington Knight (4 May 1906 – 23 February 1987) 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.
Mar 21, 2023 · A number of British actors served during the Second World War, but few could claim they came face to face with the German battleship Bismarck and lived to tell the tale. Someone who did just that was Esmond Knight, the stage and cinema star who actually became injured during an engagement with Bismarck, which resulted in him losing an eye. What ...
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Esmond Penington Knight (4 May 1906 – 23 February 1987) 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 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 ...
The Silver Fleet is a 1943 British World War II film written and directed by Vernon Sewell and Gordon Wellesley and produced by Powell and Pressburger under the banner of "The Archers". Plot [ edit ] Early during the Second World War , the Nazis overrun the Netherlands and take control of a submarine shipyard where Jaap van Leyden is the chief ...
He made his first film appearance in 1931 and then established a career in television. Notable among Knight’s numerous appearances was his one-man show Agincourt – the Archer’s Tale. During World War II Knight was in the Royal Navy, and while serving on the Prince of Wales was hit in the face by molten metal and blinded.
A t the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead Esmond took up his duties as a divisional officer whilst welders and riveters hurried to finish work on “Job No. X”, as it was known. Apart from becoming familiar with the ship and his new duties, there wasn't a great deal to do and the first few months of 1941 were rather dull.
A British ctor, born May 4, 1906 in East Shane, Surrey, England. He began his career in 1928, and served in the Royal Navy during World War II. He was an accomplished actor, whose...Read more career spanned more than half a century. He appeared on stage in John Gielgud's famous production of Hamlet in 1930, playing the role of Rosentrantz.
