Where to watch Esmond Knight in the UK
Find every Esmond Knight film and TV show streaming, free, or available to rent in the UK. Updated daily — verified 3 May 2026.
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. …
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- Doctor Who (1963) as Dom Issigri
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Helmut
- The Saint (1962) as Antoine Louvois
- Z-Cars (1962) as Albert Wallace
- The Champions (1968) as Minister
- Sunday Night Theatre (1950) as Bubnov, a Capmaker
- Festival (1963) as Chorus
- Return of the Saint (1978) as Paul Hanson
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook (1962) as Colonel Grahame
- Danger Man (1960) as Baron
- Churchill's People (1974) as Penda's Father
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971) as Captain Cutler
- Gideon's Way (1965) as Robson
- Public Eye (1965) as Dr. Stowe
- Sunday-Night Play (1960) as Harold P. Jackman
- Interpol Calling (1959) as Von Schriber
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) as President
- The Third Man (1959) as Theodore Ratteau
- An Age of Kings (1960) as Jack Cade
- I, Claudius (1976) as Domitius
- The Troubleshooters (1965) as Foss
- This Is Your Life (1955) as Self
- Detective (1964) as Commodore Rupert Gill
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1956) as Gustav
- Fall of Eagles (1974) as General Ruzski
- King of the River (1966) as Donner
- Softly Softly: Task Force (1969) as Mr. Justice Ruddy
- 1990 (1977) as Mitchell
- Fortunes of War (1987) as Liversage
- Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) as Second Elder
- Miss Marple (1984) as Mr. Galbraith
- Supernatural (1977) as Sir Charles
- Elizabeth R (1971) as Bishop de Quadra
- The Invisible Man (1958) as Wilson
- Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) as Mr. Galbraith
- Rebecca (1979) as Coroner
- Bedtime Stories (1974) as Vere Rawley
- Wessex Tales (1973) as Conjuror Trendle
- The Red Shoes (1948) as Livy
- A for Andromeda (1961) as Professor Ernest Reinhart
- Peeping Tom (1960) as Arthur Baden
- Quiller (1975) as General Pickford
- Arthur of the Britons (1972) as Athel
- Sink the Bismarck! (1960) as Captain Leach - 'Prince of Wales'
- Cousin Bette (1971) as General Hulot
- Nicholas Nickleby (1957) as Wackford Squeers. Sr
- Hamlet (1948) as Bernardo
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) as Old Judge
- Robin and Marian (1976) as Old Defender
- Black Narcissus (1947) as The Old General
- Helen of Troy (1956) as High Priest
- The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) as Hoffman
- The Protectors (1964) as Pearce Kettner
- The Spies (1966) as General Loren
- The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) as Armand
- The Invisible Man (1984) as Blind Man
- Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) as Kingston
- Armchair Theatre (1956) as Uncle Karl
- Barnaby Rudge (1960) as Dennis, the Hangman
- Yellow Dog (1973) as Mundt
- Henry V (1944) as Fluellen - Captain in the English Army
- The River (1951) as The Father
- The Dark Avenger (1955) Dialogue Coach
- The Element of Crime (1984) as Osborne
- Gone to Earth (1950) as Abel Woodus
- My Cousin Rachel (1983) as Sam Bates
- Uncle Silas (1947) as Dr. Bryerly
- Contraband (1940) as Mr. Pidgeon
- King Lear (1983) as Old Man
- Romeo and Juliet (1978) as Old Capulet
- The Halfway House (1944) as David Davies
- A Voyage Round My Father (1984) as Judge
- A Canterbury Tale (1944) as Narrator / Seven-Sisters Soldier / Village Idiot
- The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972) as Doctor
- Holiday Camp (1947) as Camp Announcer
- The End of the River (1947) as Dantos
- Waltzes from Vienna (1934) as Johann Strauss, the Younger
- The Steel Key (1953) as Prof. Newman
- Where's Jack? (1969) as Ballad Singer
- The Silver Fleet (1943) as Von Schiffer
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Most-watched Esmond Knight films currently: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), The Red Shoes (1948), Peeping Tom (1960), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Hamlet (1948).
What TV shows has Esmond Knight appeared in?
Selected TV credits: Doctor Who (1963), BBC Play of the Month (1965), The Saint (1962), Z-Cars (1962), The Champions (1968).
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