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R osalind Knight was Esmond's daughter by his first wife, Frances Clare. She enjoyed a long and varied acting career on stage, in film and on television. As a child Rosalind harboured no great desire to become an actress and was inclined to feel that her parents were rather dull talking shop all the time.
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The play was a great success. Even Sir Winston Churchill (then the Prime Minister again) and Lady Churchill came to see a performance and wrote a letter to Esmond from No. 10 Downing Street saying: "Let me congratulate you on the brilliant acting of your wife.
Actor. Near-blindness suffered in naval action early in WW2 scarcely disturbed Esmond Knight's progress from handsome romantic lead to solid character actor; indeed it arguably gave extra depth to roles like the Village Idiot in A Canterbury Tale (1944) - in which he also played a soldier and narrated the Chaucerian Prologue - and the Holy Man in Black Narcissus (1947).
Golden Eagle, Mr Ramshaw. Chas Knight was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1884, the third son of Charles and Emily Knight and the brother of Esmond's father Frank. He was educated at Sevenoaks School and although he travelled widely, Sevenoaks remained 'home' for his entire life. In the 1901 census he is recorded at aged 17 as 'living off his own ...
Powell may have taken a chance casting Esmond, but his decision was thoroughly vindicated. The reviews when the film was released in March 1943 were excellent. The Picturegoer (March 20th 1943) wrote: "Esmond Knight, completely overcoming the disability of his blindness, scores as the ruthless Gestapo chief.
1948 - 1951 Stratford, Church Stretton and India. 1951 - 1955 "Dickie Three Eyes". 1955 - 1960 Esmond Knight, This Is Your Life! 1960 - 1969 Peeping Tom and the Sixties. 1970 - 1979 A One Man Triumph.
