Miles Malleson
Birthday: 1888-05-24
Deathday: 1969-03-15
Birthplace: Croydon, Surrey, England
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned
William Miles Malleson (25 May 1888 – 15 March 1969) was an English actor and dramatist, particularly remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s. Towards the end of his career he also appeared in cameo roles in several Hammer horror films, with a fairly large role in The Brides of Dracula as the hypochondriac and fee-hungry local doctor. Malleson was also a writer on many films, including some of those in which he had small parts, such as Nell Gwyn (1934) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940). He also translated and adapted several of Molière's plays (The Misanthrope, which he titled The Slave of Truth, Tartuffe and The Imaginary Invalid).
Credits
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1965-08-03 | You Must Be Joking | Salesman |
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1964-09-22 | Murder Ahoy | Bishop |
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1964-07-01 | First Men in the Moon | Dymchurch Registrar |
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1964-06-24 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Quince |
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1964-03-15 | A Jolly Bad Fellow | Dr. Woolley |
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1963-05-20 | Heavens Above! | Bishop Rockeby |
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1962-09-05 | The Brain | Dr. Miller |
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1962-06-25 | The Phantom of the Opera | 2nd Cabby |
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1962-04-18 | Go to Blazes | Salesman |
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1962-02-22 | Postman's Knock | Psychiatrist |
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1961-05-06 | Double Bunk | Rev. Thomas |
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1961-02-03 | The Hellfire Club | Judge |
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1961-01-01 | Fury at Smugglers' Bay | Duke of Avon |
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1960-09-04 | The Day They Robbed the Bank of England | Assistant Curator |
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1960-07-07 | The Brides of Dracula | Dr. Tobler |
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1960-05-16 | Peeping Tom | Elderly Gentleman Customer |
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1960-02-24 | Kidnapped | Mr. Rankeillor |
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1960-02-01 | And the Same to You | Bishop |
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1959-08-18 | I'm All Right Jack | Windrush Snr. |
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1959-05-04 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Bishop Franklin |
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1959-03-10 | Carlton-Browne of the F.O. | Resident Advisor Davidson |
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1959-01-06 | The Captain's Table | Canon Swingler |
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1958-12-12 | Bachelor of Hearts | Dr. Butson |
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1958-11-23 | Behind the Mask | Sir Oswald Pettiford |
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1958-05-22 | Dracula | Marx - Undertaker (uncredited) |
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1958-03-25 | Gideon's Day | The Judge |
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1958-03-04 | Happy Is the Bride | 1st Magistrate |
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1957-12-17 | Barnacle Bill | Angler |
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1957-12-03 | The Naked Truth | Rev. Bastable |
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1957-09-03 | Campbell's Kingdom | (unconfirmed - not present in US release version) |
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1957-06-11 | The Admirable Crichton | |
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1957-03-04 | Brothers in Law | Kendall Grimes Q.C. |
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1956-12-23 | Three Men in a Boat | 2nd Old Gentleman |
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1956-10-31 | Dry Rot | Country Gentleman |
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1956-10-02 | The Silken Affair | Mr. Blucher |
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1956-04-03 | The Man Who Never Was | Scientist |
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1956-02-17 | Private's Progress | Mr. Windrush Sr. |
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1955-09-02 | Geordie | Lord Paunceton |
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1955-06-07 | King's Rhapsody | Jules |
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1953-09-28 | The Captain's Paradise | Lawrence St. James |
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1952-12-04 | Folly to Be Wise | Dr. Hector McAdam |
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1952-10-01 | Venetian Bird | Grespi |
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1952-09-22 | Trent's Last Case | Burton Cupples |
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1952-06-02 | The Importance of Being Earnest | Canon Chasuble |
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1952-06-01 | Treasure Hunt | Mr. Walsh |
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1952-03-30 | The Happy Family | Mr. Thwaites |
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1952-02-12 | The Woman's Angle | A. Secrett |
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1952-01-01 | The Magic Box | Orchestra Conductor |
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1951-11-28 | Scrooge | Old Joe |
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1951-08-07 | The Man in the White Suit | The Tailor |
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1950-02-23 | Stage Fright | Mr. Fortesque |
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1950-02-01 | Golden Salamander | Douvet |
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1949-06-21 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | The Hangman |
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1949-05-23 | The Perfect Woman | Prof. Ernest Belman |
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1949-03-31 | Cardboard Cavalier | Judge Gorebucket |
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1949-03-16 | The Queen of Spades | Tchybukin |
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1949-01-18 | Train of Events | Johnson, the Timekeeper |
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1948-10-13 | Woman Hater | Vicar |
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1948-10-04 | Saraband for Dead Lovers | Lord of Misrule |
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1948-05-12 | Bond Street | Minor Role (uncredited) |
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1948-04-24 | Idol of Paris | Offenbach |
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1947-02-01 | While the Sun Shines | Horton |
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1946-01-02 | Land of Promise | Mr. Know-All |
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1945-10-01 | Journey Together | (uncredited) |
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1945-09-09 | Dead of Night | Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor") |
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1943-11-18 | The Demi-Paradise | Theatre Cashier |
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1943-05-23 | The Gentle Sex | Tran Guard |
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1942-12-04 | Thunder Rock | Chairman of Directors |
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1942-08-10 | Unpublished Story | Farmfield |
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1942-06-29 | They Flew Alone | Vacuum Salesman |
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1941-05-14 | Major Barbara | Morrison |
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1940-05-04 | For Freedom | Minor Role |
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1940-02-19 | The Thief of Bagdad | Sultan |
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1939-02-21 | Q Planes | Minor Role |
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1938-11-18 | Sixty Glorious Years | Wounded Soldier |
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1937-09-01 | Victoria the Great | Sir James |
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1937-07-23 | Knight Without Armour | Drunken Red Commissar |
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1937-07-21 | Action for Slander | Minor Role |
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1936-09-01 | Tudor Rose | Jane's Father |
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1936-06-30 | Rhodes of Africa | Minor Role (uncredited) |
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1935-08-27 | Peg of Old Drury | Minor Role (uncredited) |
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1935-06-23 | Lazybones | Pessimist |
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1935-06-19 | Vintage Wine | Henri Popinot |
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1935-06-06 | The 39 Steps | Palladium Manager (uncredited) |
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1934-08-01 | Nell Gwyn | Chiffinch |
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1934-03-01 | The Queen's Affair | The Chancellor |
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1933-07-10 | Summer Lightning | Beach |
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1933-01-15 | Perfect Understanding | Announcer |
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1932-09-01 | Money Means Nothing | Doorman |
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1932-07-27 | The Love Contract | Peters |
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1932-07-26 | Love on Wheels | Academy of Music Porter |
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1932-06-27 | The Mayor's Nest | Clerk |
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1932-05-12 | The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case | Thaddeus Sholto |
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1932-01-15 | Frail Women | Registrar |
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1932-01-11 | The Blue Danube | |
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1931-07-16 | A Night in Montmartre | Minor Role |
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1931-01-09 | City of Song | Theater Watchman |
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1930-11-20 | Children of Chance | |
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1930-10-16 | Night Birds | Minor Role |
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1925-11-01 | Battling Bruisers: Some Boxing Buffoonery | |
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1921-01-01 | The Headmaster | Palliser Grantley |