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Esmond Knight Stage Credits |
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Year click on images to enlarge |
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Theatre Company |
Part Other Cast Members |
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1984 |
The Devils |
The Pit Royal Shakespeare Company |
De la Rochepozay / Father Ambrose with Peter McEnery |
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1983/4 |
Moby Dick |
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester |
Captain Peleg and The Carpenter with Brian Cox (Captain Ahab), Nigel Terry, Philip Madoc |
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1982 |
Hamlet |
Young Vic, London |
First Player/Gravedigger with Edward Fox (Hamlet) |
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1979 |
The Family Reunion |
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester transferred to The Roundhouse then The Vaudeville, London |
Dr Warburton with Edward Fox, Joanna David |
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1978 |
One Man Battle |
Open Air Theatre, Regents Park, London |
One Man Show |
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1978 |
Crime and Punishment |
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester |
Marmaladov with Tom Courtney, Leo McKern |
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1977 |
Henry V |
Open Air Theatre, Regents Park, London |
Chorus with Celia Imrie |
| 1976 | The Three Sisters | Cambridge Theatre, London |
(directed by Jonathan Miller) |
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1975 |
The Cocktail Party |
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester / Manchester Cathedral |
with Nora Swinburne |
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1973/4
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Agincourt The Archer's Tale |
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester (and on tour at many venues thereafter) |
One Man Show |
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1973 |
The Family Reunion |
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester |
Dr Warburton with Edward Fox, Joanna David, Nora Swinburne |
| 1971 | Mister | The Duchess Theatre |
with Freddie Jones |
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1969 |
Martin Luther King |
Greenwich Theatre, London |
The Interlocutor with Nina Baden-Semper Derek Griffiths |
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1969 |
Spithead |
Greenwich Theatre, London |
Lord Howe |
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1969 |
The Black Swan Winter |
Hampstead Theatre Club |
Sam Pitt with Eric Thompson |
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1967 |
Getting Married |
New Theatre, Oxford / Strand Theatre, London |
General Bridgenorth with Ian Carmichael, Alec Clunes, Moira Lister, Googie Withers, Joanna Wake, Raymond Huntley |
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1966 |
The Winter's Tale |
Edinburgh Festival / Cambridge Theatre, London |
Camillo with Moira Redmond, Jane Asher, Jim Dale, Diana Churchill |
| 1966 | The Trojan Women |
Edinburgh Festival |
Menelaus with Moira Redmond |
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1965 |
SEASON |
Mermaid Theatre, London |
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Dandy Dick |
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Sir Tristram Mardon with Sonia Dresdel |
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Oedipus the King & Oedipus at Colonus |
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Creon |
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Four Thousand Brass Halfpennies |
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Amphitryon with James Bolam, Freddie Jones |
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The Wakefield Mystery Plays |
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Left-handed Liberty |
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William Marshal |
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1964 |
The Gift |
Bermondsey Savoy Repertory Company |
produced by Ivan Stanislaw |
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1962/3 |
SEASON |
The Old Vic, London |
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The Alchemist |
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Lovewit |
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Peer Gynt |
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Three parts |
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The Merchant of Venice |
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Antonio |
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Measure for Measure |
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Pompey |
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1962 |
Two Stars For Comfort |
Garrick Theatre, London |
Drake with Trevor Howard |
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1961 |
Beckett |
Globe/Aldwych, London |
King Louis with Christopher Plummer, Diana Rigg, Eric Porter |
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1961 |
The Lady From the Sea |
Golders Green Hippodrome/ Queen's, London |
Ballested with Vanessa Redgrave, Margaret Leighton |
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1960/1 |
The Taming of the Shrew |
Aldwych Theatre, London |
Baptista with Vanessa Redgrave, Diana Rigg |
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1960 |
A Piece of Silver |
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham |
Martin Keller with Joyce Heron, Derek Fowlds |
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1957 |
The Country Wife |
Chelsea Palace Theatre |
with Joan Plowright, Esme Percy, Robert Stephens, Terence Morgan |
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1956 |
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial |
Hippodrome, London also Bristol Hippodrome |
Captain Southard with Lloyd Nolan, Robert Hardy |
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1954 |
Bell, Book and Candle |
Streatham Hill Theatre, London |
Sidney Redlitch with Joan Greenwood, Athene Seyler |
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1953 |
The Emperor's New Clothes |
Ethel Barrymore Theater, New York |
The Baron with Lee J Cobb |
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1952 |
Montserrat |
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith following 6 nights at Arts Theatre, Cambridge |
Salcedo with Richard Burton |
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1952 |
Miranda, Magistrate, Family Reunion, Ring Around The Moon, Travellers Joy |
The Bermuda Theatre, Hamilton, Bermuda Moral Rearmament Company |
with Nora Swinburne, Eric Berry |
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1951 |
Heloise |
Duke of York's Theatre, London also King's Theatre, Southsea, and Golders Green Hippodrome |
Hugo with Mervyn Johns, Nigel Green |
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1951 |
Caesar and Cleopatra |
St James's Theatre, London |
Belzanor with Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Peter Cushing, Robert Helpmann, Niall MacGinnis, Wilfred Hyde White |
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1950 |
Who Is Sylvia? |
Criterion Theatre, London |
Williams with Roland Culver, Athene Sayler |
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1950 |
Wild Violets |
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London |
with Adele Dixon, Charlotte Greenwood |
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1950 |
Bartholomew Fair |
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, Old Vic Company |
Tom Quarlous with Roger Livesey, Alec Clunes |
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1949 |
Caroline |
The Arts Club, London |
Dr Cornish with Nora Swinburne |
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1948 |
The Relapse |
Phoenix Theatre, London |
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1948/9 |
SEASON
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Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon |
The company included Robert Helpmann, Claire Bloom, Diana Wynyard, Paul Scofield, John Justin, William Squire, Alfie Bass, Douglas Wilmer, Godfrey Tearle, Anthony Quayle |
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Hamlet |
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Ghost / Gravedigger with Robert Helpmann as Hamlet |
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The Taming of the Shrew |
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Christopher Sly |
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The Winter's Tale |
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Leontes |
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Troilus and Cressida |
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Thersites |
| King John |
Chatillon |
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The Merchant of Venice |
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Gratiano with Robert Helpmann as Shylock |
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1946 |
SEASON |
King's Theatre, Hammersmith |
The company included Renee Asherson, Douglas Wilmer, Basil Langton, Lewis Casson, Michael Goodliffe |
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Romeo and Juliet |
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Mercutio with Rene Asherson (Juliet) |
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Saint Joan |
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The Inquisitor |
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Man and Superman |
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Henry Straker |
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In Time to Come |
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Senator Lodge |
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Elektra |
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A Messenger with Sybil Thorndyke |
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The Wiser Have Not Spoken |
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no part |
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1944/5 |
The Three Waltzes |
Prince's Theatre, London also pre-West End run at Bristol Hippodrome and The Opera House Manchester (October 1944) |
Richard Wessex with Evelyn Laye, Frances Clare |
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1944 |
Crisis in Heaven |
Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith |
English Soldier Courage first stage role with partial sight |
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1943 |
Seventy Years of Song |
Royal Albert Hall, London |
Esmond sang in this one night only (16th June 1943) "cavalcade of tunes" - produced by C B Cochrane |
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1940 |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Open Air Theatre, Regents Park, London |
Margaret Vines |
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1940 |
The Peaceful Inn | Duke of York's Theatre |
with Nora Swinburne |
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1940 |
SEASON |
King's Theatre, Hammersmith |
Co-manager with Wilson Barrett |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | |||
| Through The Night |
Calvin Driscoll |
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| The Peaceful Inn | Alan Harper | ||
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1939 |
SEASON |
Empire Theatre, Edinburgh |
Co-manager with Wilson Barrett |
| You Can't Take It With You | |||
| The Enchanted Cottage | |||
| Tonight at 8.30 | |||
| Mind Over Murder | |||
| Love From A Stranger | |||
| Full House | |||
| Quality Street | |||
| Autumn Crocus | |||
| The Middle Watch | |||
| French Without Tears | |||
| It's A Boy | |||
| Goodness, How Sad! | |||
| Private Lives | |||
| The Green Pack | |||
| Tell Her The Truth | |||
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1939 |
SEASON |
King's Theatre, Hammersmith |
Co-manager with Wilson Barrett |
| Tonight at 8.30 |
Commander Peter Gilpin (in Hands Across The Sea) George Pepper (in Red Peppers) |
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Night Must Fall |
(Esmond also produced this play) |
Danny with Dame May Witty |
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Autumn Crocus |
with Nora Swinburne |
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Fallen Angels |
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Rain |
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| You Can't Take It With You | |||
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George and Margaret |
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First Stop North |
Terence Donnelly with Wilson Barrett, Judith Furse |
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| You Can't Take It With You | |||
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1938 |
The White Guard |
Phoenix Theatre, London |
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1938 |
Twelfth Night |
Phoenix Theatre, London |
Orsino |
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1938 |
Crest of the Wave |
On tour |
with Frances Clare, Dorothy Dickson, Finlay Currie |
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1938 |
The Melody That Got Lost |
Phoenix Theatre, London |
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1937
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Van Gogh |
Arts Theatre Club, London |
Vincent Van Gogh with Wilson Barrett |
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1937 |
Wise Tomorrow |
Lyric Theatre, London |
Peter Marsh with Nora Swinburne, Martita Hunt, Diana Churchill, Naunton Wayne |
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1936 |
Night Must Fall |
Playhouse Theatre, London |
Danny |
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1936 |
The Little Ol' Boy |
Arts Theatre, London |
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1936 |
The Insect Play |
Playhouse Theatre, London |
Parasite, Chief Engineer with Robert Helpmann |
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1934 |
Hamlet |
Sadlers Wells, London |
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1934
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Streamline |
Opera House, Manchester/ Palace Theatre, London |
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1934 |
The Three Sisters |
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London |
Gypsy Hood |
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1932 |
Wild Violets |
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London |
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1932 |
The Child Born at the Plough |
Barn Theatre, Small Hythe, Kent |
Moses |
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1932 |
Love For Love |
Faculty of Arts |
Valentine |
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1931/2 |
Waltzes From Vienna |
Alhambra Theatre, London |
Strauss The Younger |
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1931 |
Salome |
Gate Theatre, London |
Young Syrian |
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1931 |
Rahere |
St Bartholomew's Church, London |
with Tom Heslewood |
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1931 |
Much Ado About Nothing (excerpt) |
Barn Theatre, Small Hythe, Kent (3rd anniversary performance in memory of Ellen Terry) |
Balthazar (also other songs) |
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1931 |
Masque of Comus |
Westminster School, London |
The Attendant Spirit with Frances Clare |
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1930 |
Mr Eno - His Birth, Death and Life |
The Arts Club, London |
Munro |
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1930 |
Hamlet |
Queen's Theatre, London |
Rosencrantz with John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit |
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1929
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The Return of the Puritan |
Hippodrome, Golders Green, London |
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1929
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Art and Mrs Bottle |
Criterion Theatre, London |
Michael Stockfield with Joan Barry |
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1929 |
Improper People | The Arts Theatre, London |
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1929 |
Maya |
Studio des Theatres des Champs Elysees, Paris |
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1929 |
The Man I Killed |
Paris |
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1929 |
Fashion |
Kingsway Theatre, London |
with Frances Clare |
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1928 |
Today and Tomorrow, Managee and the Robbers, Spare a Copper, The Old Sailor, Bloweth the Wind |
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