Marne Maitland
ActingAlso Known As
James Robinson Maitland, Marne J. Maitland, Марн Мэйтленд, Марне Мейтленд
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
Movies
(73 total)
Cleopatra
as Euphranor
Roma
as Underground Guide
The Black Stallion
as Drake Captain
Trail of the Pink Panther
as Deputy Commissioner Lasorde
First Men in the Moon
as Dr. Tok, UN Space Agency (uncredited)
The Belly of an Architect
as Battistino
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Campeggio
Khartoum
as Sheikh Osman
The Phantom of the Opera
as Xavier
The Reptile
as The Malay
March or Die
as Leon
The Shoes of the Fisherman
as Cardinal Rahamani
I'm All Right Jack
as Mr. Mohammed
Lord Jim
as Elder
Shaft in Africa
as Col. Gonder
Man of La Mancha
as Captain of the Guard
The Scarlet and the Black
as Papal Secretary
Tiger Bay
as Doctor
Street Law
as Records Keeper (uncredited)
TV Shows
(25 total)
The Avengers
as Becker
The Saint
as The Guru
The Saint
as Borota
The Saint
as Esteban
The Jewel in the Crown
as Pandit Baba
The Champions
as Minoes
Department S
as Turkish Caretaker
Return of the Saint
as Kemal
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
as Thoreau
Out of the Unknown
as Shaw
Sir Francis Drake
as Uluch Ali
The Buccaneers
as Turk
Interpol Calling
as Bhandari
La promessa
as Von Gunthen
Richard the Lionheart
as Saladin