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Submitting. But she had the audacity to ask for a pay rise and was not entirely surprised when the notoriously stingy producer Peter Rogers sacked her on the spot – when he died the Daily Mail called him “the Carry On Scrooge”. She married a theatre director and wanted to take her career in a different direction and follow in the footsteps of her father, the Shakespearean actor Esmond Knight. Although she never became a household name like Barbara Windsor or Sid James, Knight acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Court Theatre and enjoyed a career on stage and screen spanning almost 70 years.