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1 MAY 1920-MAR 1992 MARNE MAITLAND

Marne Maitland

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Marne Maitland
Actor Marne Maitland.jpg
Born1920
CalcuttaIndia
DiedMarch 1992
Years active1937-1990
Marne Maitland (1920 – March 1992)[1] was an Anglo-Indian character actor in British films and television programmes.[2]

Career[edit]

Born in CalcuttaIndia,[1] Maitland 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).[3]
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).[4]
He made numerous television appearances in programmes such as The BuccaneersDanger ManThe Avengers (appearing as a sinister eastern delegate in the episode "Death's Door" in 1967),[5] The SaintThe 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).[6]

Death[edit]

He died in March 1992.[1]

Selected filmography[edit]


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