Marne Maitland
Born: 1914-12-18 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Died: 1991-12-01
Known For: Acting
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
Filmography
1990
- The King's Whore as Conte Trevi
- Cellini: A Violent Life as Blind cardinal
1988
- And the Violins Stopped Playing as Sandu
- Appuntamento a Liverpool as Pilar
1987
- The Belly of an Architect as Battistino
1985
- The Key to Rebecca as Gaafar
- The Assisi Underground as Rabbi
- I Am an ESP
1984
- The Jewel in the Crown as Pandit Baba
- Pope John Paul II as Mountain Sacristan
- Memed My Hawk as Suleyman
- A Glass Full of Snow as Nullo
1983
- The Scarlet and the Black as Papal Secretary
1982
- Trail of the Pink Panther as Deputy Commissioner Lasorde
- Grog
1980
- The Day Christ Died as Jacob
1979
- The Black Stallion as Drake Captain
- Ashanti as Touareg Chief
- Lovers and Liars
- La promessa as Von Gunthen
1978
- Return of the Saint as Kemal
1977
- March or Die as Leon
1974
- The Man with the Golden Gun as Lazar
- Street Law as Records Keeper (uncredited)
1973
- Shaft in Africa as Col. Gonder
1972
- Man of La Mancha as Captain of the Guard
- Roma as Underground Guide
1969
- Department S as Turkish Caretaker
- Anne of the Thousand Days as Campeggio
- The Bushbaby as The Hadj
- All at Sea as Pierre
1968
- The Champions as Minoes
- Journey to the Unknown as Edward Chardur
- The Shoes of the Fisherman as Cardinal Rahamani
- Duffy as Abdul
- If Only the Trains Came as Mores
1967
- Callan
- Boy Meets Girl as Abdul Ghani
- The Bobo as Luis Castillo
1966
- Khartoum as Sheikh Osman
- The Reptile as The Malay
1965
- Out of the Unknown as Shaw
- Lord Jim as Elder
- The Return of Mr. Moto as Wasir Hussein
- The Fox and the Forest as Shaw
1964
- It's Dark Outside as Chandra Bhutan
- First Men in the Moon as Dr. Tok, UN Space Agency (uncredited)
- Master Spy as Dr. Asafu
1963
- Espionage as Bishara
- Festival as Don Gregario Obregon
- Cleopatra as Euphranor
- Sammy Going South as Hassan
1962
- The Saint as The Guru
- Richard the Lionheart as Saladin
- The Phantom of the Opera as Xavier
1961
- The Avengers as Becker
- Sir Francis Drake as Uluch Ali
- The Terror of the Tongs as The Beggar
- Three on a Spree as Eastern Gentleman
- The Man Out There as Deputy Commander
- Middle Course as Renard
1960
- Danger Man as Sheik Ahmed
- Maigret
- Sands of the Desert as Advisor to Sheikh
- Visa to Canton as Han Po
- Cone of Silence as Mr. Robinson
1959
- No Hiding Place
- Interpol Calling as Bhandari
- International Detective as Inspector Rabat
- The Stranglers of Bombay as Patel Shari
- I'm All Right Jack as Mr. Mohammed
- Carlton-Browne of the F.O. as Archipolagos
- Tiger Bay as Doctor
- Hazard as Guido
1958
- I Was Monty's Double as Arab Proprietor
- The Camp on Blood Island as Captain Sakamura
- The Wind Cannot Read as Bahadur
- Man with a Gun as Max
1957
- The Mark of the Hawk as Sandar Lai
- Interpol as Guido Martinelli
- Windom's Way as Commissioner Belhedron
- Seven Thunders as Hassan (barstaff in the bordello)
1956
- The Buccaneers as Turk
- Colonel March of Scotland Yard as Thoreau
- Armchair Theatre as Deputy Commander
- Bhowani Junction as Govindaswami
1955
- The Dark Avenger as French Peasant (uncredited)
- Break in the Circle as The phony Kudnic
- John and Julie as Indian Prince
1954
- Father Brown as Maharajah
- Svengali as Stage Manager
- Diplomatic Passport as Philip
1953
- Saadia as Horse dealer
- Deadly Nightshade as Heinz
1952
- The Dybbuk as Rabbi Samson
1951
- Outcast of the Islands as Ships Mate
1950
- Cairo Road as Gohari