
Marne Maitland
Born December 18, 1914 · Calcutta, West Bengal, India
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
Notable Appearances
Movies

The Man with the Golden Gun

Cleopatra

Trail of the Pink Panther

The Black Stallion

Khartoum

The Shoes of the Fisherman

Anne of the Thousand Days

March or Die

Lord Jim

First Men in the Moon

The Scarlet and the Black

The King's Whore

The Phantom of the Opera

Pope John Paul II

Roma

I'm All Right Jack

Shaft in Africa

I Was Monty's Double
More Movies

The Belly of an Architect

Man of La Mancha

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Grog

The Stranglers of Bombay

The Day Christ Died

The Terror of the Tongs

Street Law

The Dark Avenger

The Mark of the Hawk

Outcast of the Islands

Ashanti

Break in the Circle

Bhowani Junction

The Camp on Blood Island

Lovers and Liars

Interpol

Cellini: A Violent Life

Memed My Hawk

John and Julie

The Key to Rebecca

The Wind Cannot Read

And the Violins Stopped Playing

Sands of the Desert

Tiger Bay

Three on a Spree

The Return of Mr. Moto

The Fox and the Forest

The Reptile

Duffy

Cairo Road

The Assisi Underground

Sammy Going South

Father Brown

Visa to Canton

The Bobo

The Dybbuk

I Am an ESP

Man with a Gun

Svengali

Seven Thunders

Windom's Way

Cone of Silence

The Man Out There

Appuntamento a Liverpool

Saadia

The Bushbaby

Deadly Nightshade

Master Spy

Hazard

Diplomatic Passport






















