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Marne Maitland
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…
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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
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1990
The King's Whore
Movie Conte Trevi
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1990
Cellini: A Violent Life
Movie Blind cardinal
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1988
Appuntamento a Liverpool
Movie Pilar
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1988
And the Violins Stopped Playing
Movie Sandu
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1987
The Belly of an Architect
Movie Battistino
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1985
I Am an ESP
Movie
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1985
The Assisi Underground
Movie Rabbi
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1985
The Key to Rebecca
Movie Gaafar
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1984
A Glass Full of Snow
Movie Nullo
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1984
Memed My Hawk
Movie Suleyman
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1984
Pope John Paul II
Movie Mountain Sacristan
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1984
The Jewel in the Crown
TV show Pandit Baba
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1983
The Scarlet and the Black
Movie Papal Secretary
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1982
Trail of the Pink Panther
Movie Deputy Commissioner Lasorde
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1982
Grog
Movie
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1980
The Day Christ Died
Movie Jacob
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1979
La promessa
TV show Von Gunthen
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1979
The Black Stallion
Movie Drake Captain
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1979
Ashanti
Movie Touareg Chief
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1979
Lovers and Liars
Movie
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1978
Return of the Saint
TV show Kemal
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1977
March or Die
Movie Leon
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1974
The Man with the Golden Gun
Movie Lazar
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1974
Street Law
Movie Records Keeper (uncredited)
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1973
Shaft in Africa
Movie Col. Gonder
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1972
Man of La Mancha
Movie Captain of the Guard
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1972
Roma
Movie Underground Guide
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1969
Anne of the Thousand Days
Movie Campeggio
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1969
Department S
TV show Turkish Caretaker
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1969
The Bushbaby
Movie The Hadj
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1969
All at Sea
Movie Pierre
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1968
If Only the Trains Came
Movie Mores
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1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Movie Cardinal Rahamani
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1968
Journey to the Unknown
TV show Edward Chardur
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1968
The Champions
TV show Minoes
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1968
Duffy
Movie Abdul
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1967
Boy Meets Girl
TV show Abdul Ghani
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1967
The Bobo
Movie Luis Castillo
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1967
Callan
TV show
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1966
Khartoum
Movie Sheikh Osman
