Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1914-12-18
Day of Death
1991-12-01
Place of Birth
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Marne Maitland
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 (73)
The King's Whore
1990
Cellini: A Violent Life
1990
Appuntamento a Liverpool
1988
And the Violins Stopped Playing
1988
The Belly of an Architect
1987
I Am an ESP
1985
The Assisi Underground
1985
The Key to Rebecca
1985A Glass Full of Snow
1984
Memed My Hawk
1984
Pope John Paul II
1984
The Scarlet and the Black
1983
Trail of the Pink Panther
1982
Grog
1982
