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