Marne Maitland
Born: 1920-05-01 Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Died: 1991-12-01
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 ...
Acting (in our collection)
Mussolini and I
(1985)
The Scarlet and the Black
(1983)
Ashanti
(1979)
The Man with the Golden Gun
(1974)
Shaft in Africa
(1973)
Man of La Mancha
(1972)
The Shoes of the Fisherman
(1968)
Khartoum
(1966)
First Men in the Moon
(1964)
Cleopatra
(1963)
I'm All Right Jack
(1959)