Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "The Refit of HMS Hood - But what if she had survived?" video.

A bit of film trivia. The actor who played the captain of the Prince of Wales in the film Sink The Bismarck, Esmond Knight, was a gunnery offices aboard the Prince of Wales and saw Hood explode. Just after that he was wounded by shrapnel which resulted in the permanent lose of sight in one eye but he received a series of treatments from Dr Vincent Nesfield designed to restore sight to his remaining eye. The treatment was a great success, restoring much of Knight's sight in that eye.
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@nickgaskell6743 Yep. I knew about that one.👍😊 Got to have been a bit odd for both of them. The actor Jon Pertwee served onboard Hood but and was transferred off the ship for officer training shortly before she was sunk. He Later, he was attached to the highly-secretive Naval Intelligence Division working alongside future James Bond author Ian Fleming.
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@jonsouth1545 I think you may be referring to the actor Peter Butterworth and the film was The Wooden Horse. He was at the camp but was not deemed suitable to be in the film. Interestingly the Germans never had any problem with him being there.
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@jonsouth1545 I think you mean Peter Butterworth and the film was The Wooden Horse😊👍
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@sirmalus5153 Esmond Knight was a highly regarded actor of both stage and screen, which is obviously what you saw shining through.
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@anthonybanchero3072 It could not have been easy. Especially as it was one of the last things he saw of the battle
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Sean M John Ford, who became an admiral, would often humiliate Wayne about that. In fact the credits to one film listed everyone's service rank except Wayne who was listed as Mr.
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@Trek001 Thanks Trek. I did know about Ludovic Kennedy and his father, but it's good to be reminded of it.
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Niek Vels difficult to duck anything that size
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Sean M Sean. Ford filmed on Midway Island during the Japanese attack. Footage you see of Midway was his.
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