Marne Maitland
Acting
- Born:
- 1914-12-18
- Died:
- 1991-12-01
- Place of birth:
- Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Biography
Distinctive character actor, born in Calcutta and educated at Magdalen College, Cambridge. His acting career was interrupted by wartime service (for six years) in the British Army. He then joined the Old Vic Company and subsequently appeared on screen. With his hooked nose and furtive eyes, he made the perfect sinister villain, playing an assortment of Arabic or Central Asian diamond smugglers, drug dealers or black market racketeers. Occasionally, he was on the right side of the law, notably as commissioner Govindaswami in La croisée des destins (1956), or as a cardinal in Les souliers de Saint-Pierre (1968). Early on in his career, Maitland worked for Hammer Studios where he had memorable roles as Patel Shari, a member of the murderous Kali sect in Les étrangleurs de Bombay (1959), and as an evil Malay servant, dedicated to worshipping La femme reptile (1966). Marne was also very active on British television (Le Saint (1962), Département S(1969), and others) in very much the same capacity. He stood out as the mysterious dissident Pandit Baba in the excellent award-winning miniseries The Jewel in the Crown(1984). From the early 1970's until his death, he lived in Rome. - IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis
Known For
Filmography
The King's Whore
Cellini: A Violent Life
Appuntamento a Liverpool
And the Violins Stopped Playing
The Belly of an Architect
I Am an ESP
The Assisi Underground
The Key to Rebecca
A Glass Full of Snow
Memed My Hawk
Pope John Paul II
The Jewel in the Crown
The Scarlet and the Black
Trail of the Pink Panther
Grog
The Day Christ Died
La promessa
The Black Stallion
Ashanti
Lovers and Liars
Return of the Saint
March or Die
The Man with the Golden Gun
Street Law
Shaft in Africa
Man of La Mancha
Roma
Anne of the Thousand Days
Department S
The Bushbaby
All at Sea
If Only the Trains Came
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Journey to the Unknown
The Champions
Duffy
Boy Meets Girl
The Bobo
Callan
Khartoum
The Reptile
The Return of Mr. Moto
The Fox and the Forest
Out of the Unknown
Lord Jim
Master Spy
First Men in the Moon
It's Dark Outside
Festival
Espionage
Cleopatra
Sammy Going South
The Saint
The Phantom of the Opera
Richard the Lionheart
Sir Francis Drake
Middle Course
Three on a Spree
The Terror of the Tongs
The Man Out There
The Avengers
Visa to Canton
Maigret
Danger Man
Sands of the Desert
Cone of Silence
International Detective
The Stranglers of Bombay
No Hiding Place
Interpol Calling
I'm All Right Jack
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Tiger Bay
Hazard
I Was Monty's Double
Man with a Gun
The Wind Cannot Read
The Camp on Blood Island
Windom's Way
The Mark of the Hawk
Seven Thunders
Interpol
The Buccaneers
Armchair Theatre
Bhowani Junction
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
John and Julie
The Dark Avenger
Break in the Circle
Svengali
Diplomatic Passport
Father Brown
Saadia
Deadly Nightshade
The Dybbuk
Outcast of the Islands
Cairo Road