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Esmond Knight Film Credits

Year

Title

Part

Other Cast Members

1987

Superman IV:

The Quest for Peace

Second Elder

Christopher Reeve,

Gene Hackman

1984

The Element of Crime

Osborne

Michael Elphick

1976

Robin and Marian

Old Defender

Sean Connery,

Richard Harris

1973

Yellow Dog

Mundt

Robert Hardy,

Carolyn Seymour

1972

The Boy Who Turned Yellow

Doctor

Helen Weir,

Brian Worth

1969

Where's Jack?

Ballad Singer

Tommy Steele

1969

Ann of the Thousand Days

Kingston

Richard Burton,

Genevieve Bujold,

Nora Swinburne

1965

The Spy Who Came

In From The Cold

Old Judge

Richard Burton,

Claire Bloom

1963 Decision at Midnight Peter Hauser

Walter Fitzgerald,

Martin Landau,

Nora Swinburne

Torin Thatcher

1960

Peeping Tom

Arthur Baden

Carl Boehm,

Anna Massey,

Moira Shearer

1960

Sink The Bismarck!

Captain Leach

(portraying the commanding officer of HMS Prince of Wales in the battle in which Esmond himself was blinded)

Kenneth Moore,

Michael Hordern

1959

Third Man On The Mountain

 

Michael Rennie,

Nora Swinburne

1958

The Battle of the V1

Stricker

Michael Rennie,

Christopher Lee

1958

Operation Dagger

Cast Member

 

1957

The Prince and the Showgirl

Hoffman

Marilyn Monroe,

Laurence Olivier

1956

Helen of Troy

High Priest

Brigitte Bardot,

Cedric Hardwicke,

Nora Swinburne

1955

The Dark Avenger

writing credit - provided some dialogue and dialogue coaching

Errol Flynn,

Peter Finch

1954

Richard III

Sir Richard Ratcliffe

Laurence Olivier,

Ralph Richardson

1954

Full Circle

Commentator

 

1953

The Steel Key

Professor Crabtree

Terence Morgan,

Joan Rice

1952

Girdle of Gold

William Evans

(Evans the Milk)

Petra Davies,

Glyn Houston

1952

Arrow To The Heart

Major Kartuschke,

Legal Officer

 

1951

The River

The Father

Nora Swinburne

1951 Without Fear

Narrator

(animated film)

 

1950

Gone to Earth

Abel Woodus

Jennifer Jones,

David Farrar

1950

The Compelled People

Hugo von Gerhardt

 

1948

Hamlet

Bernardo

Laurence Olivier,

Jean Simmons

1948

Deep Waters

Captain Charles Baxter RN

Dana Andrews

1948

Holiday Camp

Camp Announcer

Dennis Price,

Flora Robson

1948

The Red Shoes

Livingston (Livy) Montague

Moira Shearer,

Anton Walbrook

1947

Uncle Silas

Dr Bryerly

Jean Simmons,

Derrick de Marney

1947

The End of the River

Dantos

Sabu

1947

The Likes of 'Er

George Miles

 

1947

Black Narcissus

The Old General

Deborah Kerr,

David Farrar,

Flora Robson

1944

The Halfway House

David Davies

Mervyn Johns,

Glynis Johns

1944

Henry V

Fluellen

Laurence Olivier

1944

A Canterbury Tale

Narrator,

Seven Sisters Soldier,

Village Idiot

Eric Portman,

Dennis Price,

Sheila Sim

1943

The Silver Fleet

Von Schiffer

(first film role after

active service)

Ralph Richardson,

Googie Withers

1941

This England

 

Emlyn Williams,

Constance Cummings

1941

Fingers

Sid Harris

Clifford Evans,

Edward Rigby

1940

Contraband

Mr Pidgeon

Conrad Veidt,

Valerie Hobson

1939

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

Raille

Leslie Banks,

Brian Worth

1939

Weddings Are Wonderful

Guy Rogers

June Clyde,

Michael Ripper,

George Carney

1938

What Men Live By

Angel

 

1937

The Vicar of Bray

Dennis Melross

Stanley Holloway,

Felix Aylmer

1936

Pagliacci

Cadet Silvio

Richard Tauber,

Jerry Verno

1935

Schwarze Rosen

English version released as ...

Did I Betray? (1937)

Pavo Collin

Lillian Harvey

1935

Crime Unlimited

Pete Bordon

 

1935

Dandy Dick

Tony Mardon

Will Hay

1935

Some Day

Curly Blake

Margaret Lockwood

1934

The Blue Squadron

Captain Carlo Banti

Greta Hansen,

Cecil Parker,

Hay Plumb

1934

Father and Son

Michael Bolton

Edmund Gwenn,

Roland Culver

1934

Girls Will Be Boys

Geoffrey Dawson

Irene Vanbrugh,

Edward Chapman

1934

Lest We Forget

Pat Doyle Jnr

George Carney,

Roddy Hughes

1934

Womanhood

Jack Gordon

Christine Adrian,

Charles Castella

1934

King of Whales

Gideon

 

1933

The Bermondsey Kid

Eddie Martin

Len Harvey,

Anna Lee

1933

Waltzes From Vienna

Strauss the Younger

Jessie Matthews,

Edmund Gwenn

1933

The Private Life of Henry VIII

Falcon trainer with his uncle, Captain C.W.R.Knight

Charles Laughton,

Elsa Lanchester,

Robert Donat

1932

The Ringer

John Lenley

Gordon Harker,

Dorothy Bartlam

1932

Film about falconry made by

Captain C.W.R. Knight

Henry VIII

Frances Clare

1931

77 Park Lane

Philip Connor

Roland Culver,

Betty Stockfield

1931

Deadlock

John Tring

Hay Plumb,

Alma Taylor

1931

Romany Love

Davy Summers

Florence McHugh,

Roy Travers

1929

The Blue Peter

Radio Operator

Matheson Lang,

Mary Dibley

 

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