Esmond Penington Knight (4 May 1906 – 23 February 1987) was an
English actor. He had a successful stage and film career before
World War II. For much of his later career Knight was half blind. He had been badly injured in 1941 whilst on active service on board
HMS Prince of Wales when she fought the
Bismarck at the
Battle of the Denmark Strait, and remained totally blind for two years, though he later regained some sight in his right eye.