Marne Maitland
| Marne Maitland | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 1, 1920 Calcutta, India |
| Died |
December 1, 1991 (aged 71) Tyne and Wear, England |
| Years active | 1937-1990 |
James Marne Maitland[1] (1 May 1920 – December 1991) was an Anglo-Indian character actor in British films and television programmes.
He made his film debut in Cairo Road (1950). His sharp, dark features and small stature saw him type cast as villains from the Middle and Far East, particularly for Hammer Film Productions. These include The Camp on Blood Island (1958), The Stranglers of Bombay (1960), The Terror of the Tongs (1961), and as Malay in The Reptile (1965).
Other film roles include Father Brown (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959), I'm All Right Jack (1959), Cleopatra (1963), Lord Jim (1965);, Khartoum (1966), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Man of La Mancha (1972), and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
He made numerous television appearances in programmes such as The Buccaneers, Danger Man, The Avengers (appearing as a sinister eastern delegate in the episode "Death's Door" in 1967), The Saint, The Champions, Department S, and Randall and Hopkirk. One of his television roles was as Pandit Baba, a scholar agitating for an end to British rule in India, in the Granada series The Jewel in the Crown (1984).
He died in 1991.
Selected filmography
- Cairo Road (1950)
- South of Algiers (1953)
- Deadly Nightshade (1953)
- Flame and the Flesh (1954)
- Father Brown (1954)
- Diplomatic Passport (1954)
- Svengali (1954)
- Bhowani Junction (1956)
- Ramsbottom Rides Again (1956)
- Interpol (1957)
- Hour of Decision (1957)
- Windom's Way (1957)
- The Mark of the Hawk (1957)
- The Wind Cannot Read (1958)
- I Was Monty's Double (1958)
- I Only Arsked! (1958)
- The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
- Tiger Bay (1959)
- I'm Alright Jack (1959)
- The Stranglers of Bombay (1960)
- Sands of the Desert (1960)
- The Middle Course (1961)
- Passport to China (1961)
- Three on a Spree (1961)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
- Panic (1963)
- Cleopatra (1963)
- First Men in the Moon (1964)
- Master Spy (1964)
- Lord Jim (1965)
- The Return of Mr. Moto (1965)
- Khartoum (1966)
- The Bobo (1967)
- Duffy (1968)
- The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
- The Bushbaby (1969)
- Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
- The Statue (1971)
- Roma (1972)
- Man of La Mancha (1972)
- Shaft in Africa (1973)
- The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
- March or Die (1977)
- Ashanti (1979)
- Pope John Paul II (1984)
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