
Marne Maitland
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
97 acting credits
Acting · 97

The Avengers
1961

The Saint
1962

No Hiding Place
1959

The Champions
1968

Danger Man
1960

Maigret
1960

The Buccaneers
1956
Festival
1963

Return of the Saint
1978

Out of the Unknown
1965

Department S
1969
International Detective
1959

Interpol Calling
1959

Callan
1967

Espionage
1963

Cleopatra
1963

Sir Francis Drake
1961

The Man with the Golden Gun
1974

Journey to the Unknown
1968

Colonel March of Scotland Yard
1956

The Jewel in the Crown
1984

Richard the Lionheart
1962

March or Die
1977

Armchair Theatre
1956

The Black Stallion
1979

Grog
1982

It's Dark Outside
1964

Khartoum
1966

Anne of the Thousand Days
1969

The Belly of an Architect
1987

Tiger Bay
1959

Father Brown
1954

Man of La Mancha
1972

First Men in the Moon
1964

Lord Jim
1965

Ashanti
1979

Trail of the Pink Panther
1982

The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968

The Scarlet and the Black
1983

Roma
1972

The Reptile
1966

I Was Monty's Double
1958

Shaft in Africa
1973

The King's Whore
1990

The Phantom of the Opera
1962

The Dark Avenger
1955

Sammy Going South
1963

Outcast of the Islands
1951

Pope John Paul II
1984

The Stranglers of Bombay
1959

Saadia
1953
Boy Meets Girls
1959

Cellini: A Violent Life
1990

I'm All Right Jack
1959

La promessa
1979

The Camp on Blood Island
1958

The Bobo
1967

Cone of Silence
1960

The Terror of the Tongs
1961

The Day Christ Died
1980

Interpol
1957

Bhowani Junction
1956

The Assisi Underground
1985

Svengali
1954

Memed My Hawk
1984

The Wind Cannot Read
1958

The Return of Mr. Moto
1965

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
1959

Lovers and Liars
1979

Duffy
1968

The Key to Rebecca
1985

The Mark of the Hawk
1957

And the Violins Stopped Playing
1988

Cairo Road
1950

Break in the Circle
1955

I Am an ESP
1985

Seven Thunders
1957

Street Law
1974

Visa to Canton
1960

Sands of the Desert
1960

John and Julie
1955

The Bushbaby
1969

Deadly Nightshade
1953

Three on a Spree
1961
If Only the Trains Came
1968

The Man Out There
1961

Appuntamento a Liverpool
1988
Middle Course
1961

Windom's Way
1957

Master Spy
1964

The Dybbuk
1952
Hazard
1959

Diplomatic Passport
1954

Man with a Gun
1958

The Fox and the Forest
1965
A Glass Full of Snow
1984

All at Sea
1969