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
- A Glass Full of Snow as Nullo
- Memed My Hawk as Suleyman
1983
- The Scarlet and the Black as Papal Secretary
1982
- Grog
- Trail of the Pink Panther as Deputy Commissioner Lasorde
1980
- The Day Christ Died as Jacob
1979
- Ashanti as Touareg Chief
- The Black Stallion as Drake Captain
- La promessa as Von Gunthen
- Lovers and Liars
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
- Roma as Underground Guide
- Man of La Mancha as Captain of the Guard
1969
- Department S as Turkish Caretaker
- Anne of the Thousand Days as Campeggio
- All at Sea as Pierre
- The Bushbaby as The Hadj
1968
- The Champions as Minoes
- Duffy as Abdul
- The Shoes of the Fisherman as Cardinal Rahamani
- Journey to the Unknown
- If Only the Trains Came as Mores
1966
- The Reptile as The Malay
- Khartoum as Sheikh Osman
1965
- Lord Jim as Elder
- The Return of Mr. Moto as Wasir Hussein
1964
- Master Spy as Dr. Asafu
- First Men in the Moon as Dr. Tok, UN Space Agency (uncredited)
- It's Dark Outside as Chandra Bhutan
1963
- Cleopatra as Euphranor
- Festival as Don Gregario Obregon
- 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
- Middle Course as Renard
- The Terror of the Tongs as The Beggar
- Three on a Spree as Eastern Gentleman
- The Man Out There as Deputy Commander
1960
- Maigret
- Visa to Canton as Han Po
- Cone of Silence as Mr. Robinson
- Sands of the Desert as Advisor to Sheikh
1959
- No Hiding Place
- Tiger Bay as Doctor
- Hazard as Guido
- 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
- Boy Meets Girls
1958
- I Was Monty's Double as Arab Proprietor
- The Wind Cannot Read as Bahadur
- The Camp on Blood Island as Captain Sakamura
- Man with a Gun as Max
1957
- Seven Thunders as Hassan (barstaff in the bordello)
- Windom's Way as Commissioner Belhedron
- The Mark of the Hawk as Sandar Lai
- Interpol as Guido Martinelli
1956
- Bhowani Junction as Govindaswami
- The Buccaneers as Turk
- Colonel March of Scotland Yard as Thoreau
1955
- Break in the Circle as The phony Kudnic
- The Dark Avenger as French Peasant (uncredited)
- John and Julie as Indian Prince
1954
- Father Brown as Maharajah
- Diplomatic Passport as Philip
- Svengali as Stage Manager
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