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Esmond Knight Television Credits

Year

Title

Part

Other Cast Members

1987

The Fortunes of War

(episodes 5,7)

Liversage

Kenneth Branagh

Emma Thompson

1987

Miss Marple

Sleeping Murder

Mr Galbraith

Joan Hickson

1985

Blott On The Landscape

(episodes 1,2,3)

Sir Francis Puckerington

David Suchet

1985

The Debt Collectors

Paul Hanson

 

1984

The Invisible Man

Certain First Principles

Blind Man

Donald Bisset

1984

King Lear

Old Man

Laurence Olivier

Diana Rigg

Leo McKern

Robert Lindsay

1983 My Cousin Rachel    

1982

A Voyage Round My Father

Judge

Laurence Olivier

1982 I Remember Nelson

(episode - Love)

   
1982 Fame Is The Spur

(episode 1)

   

1981

Troilus and Cressida

Priam

Charles Gray

Kenneth Haig

1981

Antony and Cleopatra

Lepidus

Jane Lapotaire

Colin Blakely

1981

The Borgias

(episode 8)

Cardinal Gian

Battista Orsini

Adolfo Celi,

Alfred Burke

1980

Drake's Venture

Cast Member

John Thaw

1979

The Archer's Tale

The Archer

(adaptation of his one man theatre show)

 

1979

To Live Again

Narrator

 

1978

Rebecca

(part 4)

The Coroner

Jeremy Brett

Joanna David

1978

Return of the Saint

The Debt Collectors

(episode 1.15 - 17th December 1978)

Paul Hanson

Ian Ogily

1978

Romeo and Juliet

Old Capulet

 

1978

Kilvert's Diary

The Old Soldier

 

1977

1990

Voice From The Past

(episode 1.5 - 10th October 1977)

Mitchell

Edward Woodward

1977

Supernatural

Dorabella

Viktoria

(episode 1.6 - 16th July 1977)

Sir Charles

Billie Whitelaw.

Edward Hardwick,

Ian Hendry

1976

"I, Claudius"

Waiting in the Wings

(part 2)

Domitius

Derek Jacobi

Sian Phillips

1976

The Man In The Iron Mask

Armand

Richard Chamberlain

Jenny Agutter

1975

Shades of Greene

Dream of a Strange Land

The General

John Hurt

1975

Quiller

The Thin Red Line

(episode 1.8 - 24th October 1975)

General Pickford

Michael Jayston

1975

Ballet Shoes

(part 6)

Great Uncle Matthew

Angela Thorne

Joanna David

Mary Morris

1974

A Fall of Eagles

Russian General

Barry Foster

Marius Goring

Nora Swinburne

1974

Bedtime Stories

Sleeping Beauty

(episode 1.3 - 17th March 1974)

Vere Rawley

 

1974

New Scotland Yard

Death By Misadventure

(episode 4.3 1974 - 27th April 1974)

General Travers

John Woodvine

1973

Softly Softly

Trial

(episode 9.12 - 28th November 1973)

Mr Justice Ruddy

Stratford Johns

Frank Windsor

1973

Wessex Tales

The Withered Arm

(episode 1.1 - 7th November 1973)

Conjurer Trendle

 

1973

Arthur of the Britons

Enemies and Lovers

(episode 1.9 - 31st January 1973)

Athel

Oliver Tobias

Brian Blessed

Michael Gothard

1972

Spy Trap

(episodes 3 and 6)

   

1972

Man of Straw

 

Derek Jacobi

1972

Public Eye

Many a Slip

Dr Stowe

Alfred Burke

1971

Elizabeth R

The Marriage Game

(episode 2)

Bishop de Quadra

Glenda Jackson

1971

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

The Affair of the Tortoise

Captain Cutler

Peter Barkworth

1971

Stage 2

She Stoops To Conquer

Sir Charles Marlow

Ralph Richardson

Juliet Mills

1971

Cousin Bette

(parts 1,2,3,4)

Marshal Hulot

Margaret Tyzack

Helen Mirren

1971

Thirty Minute Theatre

Faith

Cast Member

John Franklyn-Robbins

1969

Detective

Mr Guppy's Tale

Ernest Guppy

Rupert Davies

1969

The Troubleshooters

A Dirty Old Man and a Rare Bird

Foss

Geoffrey Keen

Ray Barrett

1969

The Champions

The Silent Enemy

Minister

Stuart Damon

Alexandra Bastedo

William Gaunt

1969

W. Somerset Maugham

A Casual Affair

Sir Montague Trafford

 

1969

Z Cars

The Soft Touch

(episode in 2 parts)

Albert Wallace

James Ellis

1969

Dr Who

The Space Pirates

(season 6 - story 49)

Dom Issigri

Patrick Troughton

1968

Play of the Month

The Parachute

Cast Member

Alan Badel

Jill Bennett

John Osborne

Lindsay Anderson

1968

Detective

Lesson In Anatomy

Albert

Rupert Davies

1967

The Gamblers

The Glory Llewellyn Smiley

General Schneidel

 
1967

The Rat Catchers

The Seven Pillars of Hercules

   

1966

Lord Raingo

The Offer

(part 1)

Sid Jenkin

Kenneth More

Janet Suzman

1966

The Spies

There's Only One End For Traitors

General Loren

Dinsdale Landen

Peter Arne

1966

King of the River

It's An Ill Wind

Antoine Louvois

Bernard Lee

1965

Armchair Theatre

The Last Reunion

   

1965

Gideon's Way

Subway To Revenge

Cast Member

 

1965

The Third Man

The Trial of Harry Lime

Theodore Ratteau

Michael Rennie

1965

Blood And Thunder

The Changeling

Vermandero

 

1964

Detective

The Hungry Spider

Commodore Rupert Gill

Rupert Davies

1964

The Midnight Men

The Man From Miditz

The King Shall Die

Colonel Vymer

 

1964 Crime And Punishment

Marmeladov

   
1964 The Protectors

Who Killed Lazoryck?

   
1964 Dr Finlay's Casebook

The White Hunter

   
1964

Festival

Lysistrata

Murder In The Cathedral

Chorus

(Lysistrata)

Tempter/Knight

(Murder In The Cathedral)

 

1963

Television Playhouse

To Bury Caesar

Springwood

(Sleazy Welsh Journalist)

Jack Hawkins

Pamela Brown

1963

Picardy Affair

Cast Member

 

1963

The Sunday Night Play

She's A Free Country

Harold P. Jackman

 
1963 The Queen And The Rebels

General Biante

 

1962

Ghosts

Engstrang

Prunella Scales

1962

The Saint

The Covetous Headsman

Antoine Louvois

Roger Moore

1962

Fighting Men

The Fifteenth Century

Fluellen

(scene from Henry V 1944)

 

1961

The Knight Errant

The Colonel's Ghost

   

1961

Danger Man

Vacation

(episode 20)

Arthur Baron

Patrick Magoohan

1961

A For Andromeda

The Machine (episode 2)

The Monster (episode 4)

Professor Reinhart

Julie Christie

Mary Morris

1961

The Last Mystery

Cast Member

 

1961

The Sleeping Giant

Von Schreiber

 

1960

Deadline Midnight

1st series - episode 6

   

1960

An Age of Kings

The Rabble of Kent

(part 11)

Jack Cade

 

1960

David and Brocolli

Brocolli

 

1960

Barnaby Rudge

(episodes 8,9,1,0,11,12,13)

Dennis, The Hangman

John Wood

Joan Hickson

1959

Our Mutual Friend

(episodes 3,4,8)

Silas Wegg

 

1959

Armchair Theatre

Girl On The Beach

Cast Member

 

1959

Television World Theatre

Volpone

The Silver Box

 

Corvino (The Crow)

John Barthwick MP

 

1959

Interpol Calling

The Sleeping Giant

   
1959

Next to No Wife

(broadcast November 1959)

Archibald Brodie  

1959

The Hill

Pontius Pilate

 

1959

The Invisible Man

Flight Into Darkness

Wilson

Deborah Watling

1958

Television Playright

Afternoon For Antigone

(broadcast June 1958)

James Olroyd

 

1958

Television World Theatre

The Clandestine Marriage

Cast member

Rosalind Knight

1958

My Pal Bob

(episode 3)

   

1958

O.S.S.

Operation Firefly

Emil

Ron Randell

Lionel Murton

1957

O.S.S.

Operation Dagger

General Latour

 

1957

This Is Your Life

Esmond was the subject of the programme

1957

Television Playhouse

Naughty Mr Punch

Dr Halbert

 

1957

Nicholas Nickleby

(episodes 1,2,5,6,9,10)

Wackford Squeers

Rosalind Knight

1956/7

Sailor of Fortune

Stranger In Danger

The Crete Story

The Diamond Chips

Death At Sunset

El Kafir (Stranger In Danger)

Bishop (The Crete Story)

Oberon (Diamond Chips)

 

Lorne Green

 

1956

The Count of Monte Cristo

Lichtenburg

Gustav

George Dolenz

Nick Cravat

1956

The Adventures of Aggie

Cobalt Blue

Marcel Fleur

 

1953

Broadway Television Theatre

The Firebrand

(episode 2.25 - 2nd March 1953

Cast member

Sylvia Sidney

1949

Macbeth

Banquo

Patrick Macnee

Stephen Murray

1946

Saint Joan

(second of 2 episodes - June 1946)

Executioner (?)  

1939

Twelfth Night

Orsino

Michael Redgrave

Peggy Ashcroft

1939

First Stop North

Terence Donnelly

The Wilson Barrett Company (including Wilson Barrett

Judith Furse)

1939

Rake's Progress

(2nd May version only)

John Wilkes

Dame May Witty

1939

Mary Rose

Harry and Simon Blake

Dame May Witty

John Laurie

1938

Derby Day

Bert Bones

Muriel George

1938

Will Shakespeare

Kit Marlowe

Henry Oscar

Nancy Price

1937

Night Must Fall

Danny

Vivienne Bennett

1937

Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

Wilson Barrett

       
Unidentified (to be confirmed)
       
  The Lower Depths    

 

Esmond Knight Radio Credits

Year

Title

Episode

Part

Other Cast Members

1974

Our King Went Forth to Normandy

(shortened version of Esmond's one man stage show 'Agincourt - The Archer's Tale)

An Archer

 

1953

A Life of Bliss

Robert Batten

George Cole,

Nora Swinburne

1942

Henry at Agincourt

Henry V

Marius Goring

1942

Make and Mend

Himself - narrating naval stories

 

1941

(BBC)

Himself - Interview about his life

 

1931 Meet the Prince

(musical comedy - broadcast 1st & 2nd Jan 1931)

John Maude  
1929 The Prisoner of Zenda Sound effects Denis Freeman

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