Miles Malleson
Born: 1888-05-24 in Croydon, Surrey, England
Died: 1969-03-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
William Miles Malleson (25 May 1888 – 15 March 1969) was an English actor and dramatist, particularly remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s. Towards the end of his career he also appeared in cameo roles in several Hammer horror films, with a fairly large role in The Brides of Dracula as the hypochondriac and fee-hungry local doctor. Malleson was also a writer on many films, including some of those in which he had small parts, such as Nell Gwyn (1934) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940). He also translated and adapted several of Molière's plays (The Misanthrope, which he titled The Slave of Truth, Tartuffe and The Imaginary Invalid).
Filmography
2021
- Yours Unfaithfully ... (Writer)
2020
- Conflict ... (Writer)
1965
- You Must Be Joking as Salesman
1964
- First Men in the Moon as Dymchurch Registrar
- Victoria Regina as Conyngham
- Murder Ahoy as Bishop
- A Jolly Bad Fellow as Dr. Woolley
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Quince
1963
- Call Me Bwana as Psychiatrist (uncredited)
- Heavens Above! as Bishop Rockeby
1962
- The Phantom of the Opera as 2nd Cabby
- Postman's Knock as Psychiatrist
- The Brain as Dr. Miller
- Go to Blazes as Salesman
1961
- The Hellfire Club as Judge
- Fury at Smugglers' Bay as Duke of Avon
- Double Bunk as Rev. Thomas
- The Bing Crosby Show as Self
1960
- Sunday-Night Play ... (Writer)
- Peeping Tom as Elderly Gentleman Customer
- The Brides of Dracula as Dr. Tobler
- Kidnapped as Mr. Rankeillor
- The Day They Robbed the Bank of England as Assistant Curator
- And the Same to You as Bishop
1959
- The Hound of the Baskervilles as Bishop Frankland
- I'm All Right Jack as Windrush Sr., Stanley's father
- Carlton-Browne of the F.O. as Resident Advisor Davidson
- The Captain's Table as Canon Swingler
1958
- Dracula as Marx - Undertaker (uncredited)
- Gideon's Day as The Judge
- Behind the Mask as Sir Oswald Pettiford
- Happy Is the Bride as 1st Magistrate
- Bachelor of Hearts as Dr. Butson
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Quince
1957
- The Admirable Crichton
- The Naked Truth as Reverend Cedric "Daddy Bassy" Bastable
- Barnacle Bill as Angler
- Campbell's Kingdom as (unconfirmed - not present in US release version)
- Brothers in Law as Kendall Grimes Q.C.
1956
- The Buccaneers as Josiah Parkerhouse
- The Man Who Never Was as Scientist
- Private's Progress as Mr. Windrush Sr.
- The Silken Affair as Mr. Blucher
- Three Men in a Boat as 2nd Old Gentleman
- Dry Rot as Country Gentleman
1955
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Albertus
- Television Playhouse as Uncle Simon
- Geordie as Lord Paunceton
- King's Rhapsody as Jules
1953
- The Captain's Paradise as Lawrence St. James
1952
- Venetian Bird as Grespi
- The Importance of Being Earnest as Canon Chasuble
- The Magic Box as Orchestra Conductor
- Trent's Last Case as Burton Cupples
- Folly to Be Wise as Dr. Hector McAdam
- The Woman's Angle as A. Secrett
- Treasure Hunt as Mr. Walsh
- The Happy Family as Mr. Thwaites
1951
- Scrooge as Old Joe
- The Man in the White Suit as The Tailor
1950
- Sunday Night Theatre as Quince
- Stage Fright as Mr. Fortesque
- Golden Salamander as Douvet
1949
- Kind Hearts and Coronets as The Hangman
- Train of Events as Johnson, the Timekeeper
- The Queen of Spades as Tchybukin
- Cardboard Cavalier as Judge Gorebucket
- The Perfect Woman as Prof. Ernest Belman
1948
- Saraband for Dead Lovers as Lord of Misrule
- Woman Hater as Vicar
- Bond Street as Minor Role (uncredited)
- One Night with You as Jailer
- Idol of Paris as Offenbach
1947
- While the Sun Shines as Horton
1946
- Land of Promise as Mr. Know-All
1945
- Dead of Night as Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")
- Journey Together as (uncredited)
1943
- The Demi-Paradise as Theatre Cashier
- Yellow Canary ... (Screenplay)
- They Met in the Dark ... (Writer)
- The Gentle Sex as Tran Guard
- Squadron Leader X ... (Writer)
1942
- The First of the Few ... (Screenplay)
- They Flew Alone as Vacuum Salesman
- Unpublished Story as Farmfield
- Thunder Rock as Chairman of Directors
1941
- Major Barbara as Morrison
1940
- The Thief of Bagdad as Sultan
- For Freedom as Minor Role
1939
- Q Planes as Minor Role
1938
- Sixty Glorious Years as Wounded Soldier
- A Royal Divorce ... (Writer)
1937
- Knight Without Armour as Drunken Red Commissar
- Victoria the Great as Sir James
- The Rat ... (Dialogue)
- Action for Slander as Minor Role
1936
- Tudor Rose as Jane's Father
- Rhodes of Africa as Minor Role (uncredited)
1935
- The 39 Steps as Palladium Manager (uncredited)
- Lazybones as Pessimist
- Vintage Wine as Henri Popinot
- Peg of Old Drury as Minor Role (uncredited)
1934
- Nell Gwyn as Chiffinch
- The Queen's Affair as The Chancellor
- Falling in Love ... (Writer)
1933
- Summer Lightning as Beach
- Perfect Understanding as Announcer
1932
- The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case as Thaddeus Sholto
- Love on Wheels as Academy of Music Porter
- Frail Women as Registrar
- The Blue Danube
- The Mayor's Nest as Clerk
- The Water Gipsies ... (Writer)
- Money Means Nothing as Doorman
- The Love Contract as Peters
1931
- A Night in Montmartre as Minor Role
- Sally in Our Alley ... (Screenplay)
- City of Song as Theater Watchman
- Lucky children ... (Screenplay)
1930
- The Two Worlds ... (Writer)
- Two Worlds ... (Dialogue)
- The W Plan ... (Writer)
- The Yellow Mask ... (Dialogue)
- Night Birds as Minor Role
- Children of Chance
1921
- The Headmaster as Palliser Grantley