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Marne Maitland

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Marne Maitland
Maitland in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Born
James Marne Kumar Maitland

(1914-12-18)December 18, 1914[1]
Calcutta, British India
(present-day Kolkata, India)
DiedMarch 1992(1992-03-00) (aged 77)
Rome, Italy
Alma materMagdalene College, Cambridge (B.A., 1936)
OccupationActor
Years active1937–1990

James Marne Kumar Maitland (18 December 1914 – March 1992) was an Anglo-Indian actor and voice artist. He worked extensively in his native Britain, mainly in character roles, but also appeared in many Italian productions, after moving there in the 1970s.

Early life

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Maitland was born in Calcutta,[2] to Indian and English parents. He was educated at Bedales School in Hampshire, before going up to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he took a BA in 1936.[3][4] He acted in repertory companies, before the outbreak of the Second World War led him to enlist in the Royal Army. He served in the Royal Artillery, commissioned as a second lieutenant on 20 November 1941.[5]

Career

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After his military discharge, Maitland joined the Old Vic Company. He made his film debut in Cairo Road (1950). His sharp, dark features and small stature saw him typecast as villains from the Middle and Far East, particularly for Hammer Film Productions. These include The Camp on Blood Island (1958), The Stranglers of Bombay (1960), The Terror of the Tongs (1961), and as Malay in The Reptile (1966).[6]

His other film roles include Father Brown (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959), I'm All Right Jack (1959), Cleopatra (1963), Lord Jim (1965), Khartoum (1966), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), and Man of La Mancha (1972). He played the shady gunsmith Lazar in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun.[7]

He made numerous television appearances in programmes such as The Buccaneers, Danger Man, The Avengers (as a sinister Eastern delegate in the 1967 episode "Death's Door"),[8] The Saint, The Champions, Department S, and Randall and Hopkirk, and the Granada series The Jewel in the Crown (1984, as Pandit Baba, a scholar agitating for an end to British rule in India).[9]

In the early 1970’s, Maitland moved to Italy and established residence in Rome, whereupon he appeared in many Italian productions, including in Federico Fellini's Roma and Peter Greenaway’s The Belly of an Architect. Like several of his fellow UK actors relocated to Italy, like Cyril Cusack and Edmund Purdom, Maitland moonlighted as an English-language dubber.

Personal life

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Maitland was married to actress Bettine Milne, whom he met working at the Bristol Old Vic. The two often worked alongside each other as dubbers.

Death

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He died in March 1992 in Rome, at the age of 77.[2]

Partial stage credits

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Year Title Role Venue Notes
1937-38 Macbeth Ensemble The Old Vic, London [10]
1940 The Tempest Antonio [10]
1946-47 Throng O’Scarlet Bristol Old Vic, Bristol [10]
Much Ado About Nothing [10]
1948 Captain Brassbound's Conversion Sidi El Assif Theatre Royal, Windsor [10]
1948-49 Lyric Theatre, London [10]
UK tour [10]
1950 The Purple Fig-Tree Major Skouze Theatre Royal, Brighton [10]
Piccadilly Theatre, London [10]
The Man with the Umbrella Police Officer Duchess Theatre, London [10]
1954 The Immoralist Arts Theatre, London [10]
1956 Simple Spymen Mr. Grobchick Theatre Royal, Windsor [10]
1961 The Bird of Time Mr. Sharma Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool [10]
Savoy Theatre, London [10]
1962 Orange Island Sultan Muglad Theatre Royal, Windsor [10]

Filmography

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References

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  1. ^ 1939 England and Wales Register
  2. ^ a b "Marne Maitland". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 12 April 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  3. ^ Bedales School Roll, 1993, published by Bedales School
  4. ^ The Cambridge University List of Members 1976, Cambridge University Press, 1976, p. 600
  5. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette 35415, 13 January 1942, p. 226
  6. ^ "Marne Maitland - Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.com.
  7. ^ "Marne Maitland". TVGuide.com.
  8. ^ "Death's Door (1967) - BFI". BFI.
  9. ^ "The Jewel in the Crown Episode 5 Regimental Silver (1984)". BFI.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Marne Maitland | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
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