FrameThrower · Actors · Esmond Knight
Esmond Knight
4 films · 254 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1947–1960
Born 4 May 1906 · East Sheen, Surrey, England · died 23 February 1987
Esmond Penington Knight was an English actor.
He was an accomplished actor with a career spanning over half a century. For much of his career Esmond Knight was virtually 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.
During this period, Esmond dictated an early autobiography to his secretary, Annabella Cloudsley, Seeking The Bubble (Hutchinson & Co. 1943).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 254 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Esmond takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 45% of their frames are night — the look of the work Esmond takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 254 frames from Esmond Knight's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.