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Marne Maitland

Acting · 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).

Movies with Marne Maitland

• The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) — Lazar
• Cleopatra (1963) — Euphranor
• Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) — Deputy Commissioner Lasorde
• The Black Stallion (1979) — Drake Captain
• Khartoum (1966) — Sheikh Osman
• The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) — Cardinal Rahamani
• Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) — Campeggio
• March or Die (1977) — Leon
• Lord Jim (1965) — Elder
• First Men in the Moon (1964) — Dr. Tok, UN Space Agency (uncredited)
• The Scarlet and the Black (1983) — Papal Secretary
• The King's Whore (1990) — Conte Trevi