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
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.825 |
| Birthday | 1914-12-18 |
| Place of Birth | Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
| Also Known As | James Robinson Maitland, Marne J. Maitland, Марн Мэйтленд, Марне Мейтленд, |
1951
Outcast of the Islands
6/26
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal ch...
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Outcast of the Islands
1988
And the Violins Stopped Playing
7.5/6
This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a for...
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And the Violins Stopped Playing
1957
The Mark of the Hawk
3/4
The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their lan...
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The Mark of the Hawk
1972
Roma
7.3/308
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
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Roma
1963
Cleopatra
7.038/734
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his g...
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Cleopatra
1954
Father Brown
6.1/24
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
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Father Brown
1977
March or Die
5.8/80
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost...
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March or Die
1952
The Dybbuk
0/0
A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.
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The Dybbuk
1959
I'm All Right Jack
6.657/70
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start fr...
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I'm All Right Jack
1961
The Terror of the Tongs
5.8/28
In 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city, but, hidden in the shadows of its many narrow streets, th...
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The Terror of the Tongs
1966
The Reptile
6/86
Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by...
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The Reptile
1962
The Phantom of the Opera
6.356/90
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is inten...
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The Phantom of the Opera
1958
The Wind Cannot Read
6.3/10
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and...
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The Wind Cannot Read
1961
The Man Out There
0/0
A Russian astronaut trapped in space in a faulty rocket, has five hours to live when his radio makes contact with Marie, a hunter's wife also trapped,...
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The Man Out There
1959
The Stranglers of Bombay
6.333/27
In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousa...
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The Stranglers of Bombay
1965
The Return of Mr. Moto
3.8/4
Mr. Moto goes undercover to find out who has been blowing up oil wells and trying to gain total control of all the oil leases from a petroleum-rich Mi...
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The Return of Mr. Moto
1959
Hazard
0/0
A BAFTA award nominated dramatised documentary telling the story of two steelworkers who attempt to climb a rock in the Dolomites.
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Hazard
1958
The Camp on Blood Island
6.6/20
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as...
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The Camp on Blood Island
1961
Middle Course
0/0
During World War II, the residents of a French village find an able helper in their task of making life difficult for German-occupying forces in a Can...
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Middle Course
1967
The Bobo
6/5
Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him,...
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The Bobo
1969
The Bushbaby
6/1
The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England, thus separating her...
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The Bushbaby
1960
Cone of Silence
6.722/9
A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for...
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Cone of Silence
1988
Appuntamento a Liverpool
5.3/3
Caterina's father died before her eyes in the Heysel Stadium disaster. Years later, she's summoned by British police to look at some possible suspects...
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Appuntamento a Liverpool
1950
Cairo Road
5.8/6
In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.
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Cairo Road
1984
Pope John Paul II
8/2
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 197...
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Pope John Paul II
1966
Khartoum
6.2/106
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from...
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Khartoum
1979
The Black Stallion
7.065/285
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is...
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The Black Stallion
1974
The Man with the Golden Gun
6.438/1998
Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths wit...
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The Man with the Golden Gun
1956
Bhowani Junction
5.9/32
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
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Bhowani Junction
1959
Tiger Bay
7.2/48
In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting P...
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Tiger Bay
1965
Lord Jim
6.753/73
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in pa...
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Lord Jim
1968
Duffy
6.05/10
Half-brothers Stefane and Antony despise their biological father, callous millionaire Charles Calvert. Because Charles refuses to share his wealth wit...
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Duffy
1982
Grog
0/0
Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local televisi...
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Grog
1972
Man of La Mancha
6.6/56
In the sixteenth century, Miguel de Cervantes, poet, playwright, and part-time actor, has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish...
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Man of La Mancha
1968
If Only the Trains Came
0/0
Play based on a story by Chekhov. For Gromov, behind the bars of a mental ward, the railway is the one hope of escape. For the doctor in charge, Andre...
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If Only the Trains Came
1958
Man with a Gun
5/3
A £20,000 insurance claim is lodged when a nightclub is destroyed by fire, and claims investigator Mike Davies is assigned to get to the bottom of thi...
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Man with a Gun
1953
Saadia
5/3
Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her she...
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Saadia
1954
Diplomatic Passport
7/1
An American diplomat and his wife arrive in London, and are soon involved in a series of confusing and sometimes frightening events
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Diplomatic Passport
1979
Lovers and Liars
4.4/11
An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.
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Lovers and Liars
1964
First Men in the Moon
6.3/119
The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts di...
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First Men in the Moon
1983
The Scarlet and the Black
6.982/56
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His...
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The Scarlet and the Black
1984
Memed My Hawk
5/3
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province'...
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Memed My Hawk
1984
La neve nel bicchiere
0/0
The lives of three generations of peasant farmers in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy are the focus of this unexciting, flat-footed saga by...
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La neve nel bicchiere
1985
The Assisi Underground
5.5/4
This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
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The Assisi Underground
1980
The Day Christ Died
5.8/5
A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.
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The Day Christ Died
1974
Street Law
6.7/40
Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand,...
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Street Law
1953
Deadly Nightshade
6.2/4
Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
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Deadly Nightshade
1985
I Am an ESP
5.7/32
Roberto Razzi, skeptical and convinced atheist, is the conductor of the Futuro program, in which he unmasks the most common tricks and deceptions that...
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I Am an ESP
1957
Windom's Way
5/10
A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local r...
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Windom's Way
1968
The Shoes of the Fisherman
6.7/68
All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at...
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
1973
Shaft in Africa
6/62
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
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Shaft in Africa
1979
Ashanti
5.9/40
Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and t...
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Ashanti
1957
Interpol
6.4/18
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Stur...
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Interpol
1958
I Was Monty's Double
6.8/22
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions befo...
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I Was Monty's Double
1960
Visa to Canton
4.7/12
A former World War II pilot, now the owner of a travel agency in Hong Kong, gets involved in espionage trying to help a Chinese woman locate her son.
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Visa to Canton
1963
Sammy Going South
6/12
After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South...
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Sammy Going South
1985
Mussolini and I
5.9/7
A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler to the betr...
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Mussolini and I
1954
Svengali
5.9/8
A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
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Svengali
1982
Trail of the Pink Panther
5.206/265
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-ro...
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Trail of the Pink Panther
1955
Break in the Circle
0/0
An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West.
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Break in the Circle
1969
Anne of the Thousand Days
7.082/116
Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
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Anne of the Thousand Days
1961
Three on a Spree
5.3/3
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what...
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