Esmond Knight

ESMOND KNIGHT d1987. English actor whose career spanned over half a century. For much of his career he was virtually blind, having been badly injured in 1941 whilst on active service on board HMS Prince of Wales when she fought the German battleship The Bismarck at The Battle of Denmark Strait. He amazingly went onto play the captain of the HMS Prince of Wales in the 1960 film Sink The Bismarck. He also starred as Professor Ernest Reinhart in the 1961 British science fiction television series, "A for Andromeda". He died of a heart attack aged 80 in 1987