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Rosalind Knight
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Rosalind Knight
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1933-12-03,Marylebone, London, England, UK
Gender
Female
Biography
Born in Marylebone, London, versatile character actress Rosalind Marie Knight was born to theatrical parentage. Her father was the accomplished thespian Esmond Knight. Her mother, the comedienne Frances Clare, often featured in Ivor Novello operettas. Rosalind's interest in theatre was first kindled at the age of six when she and her mother attended a staging of Novello's "The Dancing Years" at Drury Lane. Rosalind was evacuated to the countryside with her nanny during the war years. In 1949, she accompanied her father to the Old Vic Theatre and became enthralled by a production of "The Snow Queen", primarily performed by drama school novices. The following year she won an audition and spent two years at the Old Vic Theatre School. This was succeeded by a lengthy apprenticeship in repertory which led to her gaining further experience as assistant stage manager for the West of England Theatre Company, the Midland Theatre Company in Coventry and the Piccolo Theatre Company in Manchester. In 1955, she made her first impact on screen as a lady-in-waiting in Laurence Olivier's Richard III (1955), which also featured her father in the cast. A year later, having come to the attention of a movie producer, she played Annabel, one of the schoolgirls, in Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957) (decades later, she would return as a teacher in the sequel The Wildcats of St. Trinian's (1980)). This set the tone for a number of subsequent comedic roles which included a couple of early Carry On's and the Tony Richardson-directed Tom Jones (1963), in which she played the giddy Mrs. Harriet Fitzpatrick. While doing the Carry On films she was not under any form of contract and was paid a mere $50 a week. In 1957, Rosalind joined her father in an early BBC adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby (1957) as the spiteful Fanny Squeers. In a later miniseries based on Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1964), she was a splendidly shrewish Charity Pecksniff. During her prolific career, Rosalind relished every opportunity to portray a diverse range of characters, good and bad, from servants to princesses (Alice of Battenberg in The Crown (2016)) to old maids (Aspasia Fitzgibbon in The Pallisers (1974)) to wealthy socialites (Margot Asquith in Nancy Astor (1982)) and unpleasant aristocratic dowagers (Daphne Winkworth in Jeeves and Wooster (1990)). She even essayed a retired prostitute turned landlady in the sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999). In addition to a staple of period dramas she guested in numerous episodic TV dramas, including Poirot (1989), Dalziel and Pascoe (1996), Heartbeat (1992), Marple (2004), Midsomer Murders (1997) and Sherlock (2010). All the while, she remained heavily engaged in theatrical work with the Old Vic, The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre, her last appearance being the strict, incorruptible governess Mrs. Prism in Shaw's "The Importance of Being Earnest". Rosalind was married to director/producer Michael Elliott from 1959. In 1976, she helped rebuild and re-open the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, of which her husband was involved as one of five artistic directors. She was also a patron of the Actor's Centre in London and the Ladies' Theatrical Guild (a charity founded in 1891). Rosalind Knight continued to perform as an actress right up to her death on December 19 2020, at the age of 87.

Filmography

6.7

About a Boy
2002-04-26

The Lady Vanishes

6

The Lady Vanishes
1979-04-30

Carry On Teacher

6.24

Carry On Teacher
1959-08-20

Royal Celebration

6

Royal Celebration
1993-09-26

That's Carry On!

5.8

That's Carry On!
1977-11-10

Start the Revolution Without Me

5.8

Start the Revolution Without Me
1970-02-04

There Was a Crooked Man

6.1

There Was a Crooked Man
1960-08-31

3.842

Eskimo Nell
1975-01-17

The Old Curiosity Shop

4.5

The Old Curiosity Shop
1975-11-07

6.298

Carry On Nurse
1959-01-30

Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel

7.8

Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
2021-05-28

Swords at Teatime

0

Swords at Teatime
1992-04-14

The Lady in the Van

6.419

The Lady in the Van
2015-10-30

The Alchemistic Suitcase

4.2

The Alchemistic Suitcase
2009-01-01

5.385

Doctor in Love
1960-07-12

0

As You Like It
1963-03-21

The Wildcats of St. Trinian's

4.4

The Wildcats of St. Trinian's
1980-09-10

The Shell Seekers

7.167

The Shell Seekers
2007-10-18

It Could Happen to You

1

It Could Happen to You
1976-11-11

0

Claws
1987-10-04

Afraid of the Dark

5.3

Afraid of the Dark
1991-10-10

Prick Up Your Ears

6.6

Prick Up Your Ears
1987-04-17

Gunslinger's Revenge

4.5

Gunslinger's Revenge
1998-12-18

8

Pleasure
1994-10-25

0

Baby Blues
1973-12-06

Solitaire for 2

4

Solitaire for 2
1995-02-10

Fortune Is a Woman

6.7

Fortune Is a Woman
1957-03-13

7

The Kitchen
1961-08-14

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

6.4

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
1957-12-01

The Lost World Cup

7.2

The Lost World Cup
2011-09-05

On the Eve of Publication

0

On the Eve of Publication
1968-11-27

5.9

Tom Jones
1963-08-24

The Disappearance of Harry

7

The Disappearance of Harry
1982-12-08

The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe

0

The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe
1981-01-23

The Horse's Mouth

6.7

The Horse's Mouth
1958-11-11

Midsomer Murders

7.5

Midsomer Murders
1997-03-23

6

Wycliffe
1994-07-24

Jeeves and Wooster

8.031

Jeeves and Wooster
1990-04-22

The Beverly Hillbillies

6.8

The Beverly Hillbillies
1962-09-26

Gimme Gimme Gimme

7

Gimme Gimme Gimme
1999-01-08

7

Heartbeat
1992-04-10

Dalziel & Pascoe

6.4

Dalziel & Pascoe
1996-03-16

Up the Elephant and Round the Castle

5.3

Up the Elephant and Round the Castle
1983-11-30

Nicholas Nickleby

0

Nicholas Nickleby
1968-02-11

Within These Walls

5.3

Within These Walls
1974-01-04

Agatha Christie's Poirot

8.1

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989-01-08

Nicholas Nickleby

0

Nicholas Nickleby
1957-10-18

I Thought You'd Gone

0

I Thought You'd Gone
1984-07-27

Martin Chuzzlewit

0

Martin Chuzzlewit
1964-01-19

6

Mapp & Lucia
1985-04-14

Friday Night Dinner

7.8

Friday Night Dinner
2011-02-25

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

6.8

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
2001-12-02

The Wednesday Play

4.5

The Wednesday Play
1964-09-30

Sherlock Holmes

8.1

Sherlock Holmes
1984-04-24

Berkeley Square

7.636

Berkeley Square
1998-05-09

8.514

Sherlock
2010-07-25

8.2

The Crown
2016-11-04

Midsomer Murders

7.5

Midsomer Murders
1997-03-23

7

Playhouse
1974-03-13