Birthday
1914/12/18
Day of death
1991/12/01 (77 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Also know as
James Robinson Maitland, Marne J. Maitland, Марн Мэйтленд, Марне Мейтленд
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...Read more
(1951) Outcast of the Islands
as Ships Mate
(1988) And the Violins Stopped Playing
as Sandu
(1957) The Mark of the Hawk
as Sandar Lai
(1972) Roma
as Underground Guide
(1963) Cleopatra
as Euphranor
(1954) Father Brown
as Maharajah
(1977) March or Die
as Leon
(1952) The Dybbuk
as Rabbi Samson
(1959) I'm All Right Jack
as Mr. Mohammed
(1961) The Terror of the Tongs
as The Beggar
(1966) The Reptile
as The Malay
(1962) The Phantom of the Opera
as Xavier
(1958) The Wind Cannot Read
as Bahadur
(1961) The Man Out There
as Deputy Commander
(1959) The Stranglers of Bombay
as Patel Shari
(1965) The Return of Mr. Moto
as Wasir Hussein
(1959) Hazard
as Guido
(1958) The Camp on Blood Island
as Captain Sakamura
(1961) Middle Course
as Renard
(1967) The Bobo
as Luis Castillo
(1969) The Bushbaby
as The Hadj
(1960) Cone of Silence
as Mr. Robinson
(1988) Appuntamento a Liverpool
as Pilar
(1950) Cairo Road
as Gohari
(1984) Pope John Paul II
as Mountain Sacristan
(1966) Khartoum
as Sheikh Osman
(1979) The Black Stallion
as Drake Captain
(1974) The Man with the Golden Gun
as Lazar
(1956) Bhowani Junction
as Govindaswami
(1959) Tiger Bay
as Doctor
(1965) Lord Jim
as Elder
(1968) Duffy
as Abdul
(1982) Grog
as ---
(1972) Man of La Mancha
as Captain of the Guard
(1968) If Only the Trains Came
as Mores
(1958) Man with a Gun
as Max
(1953) Saadia
as Horse dealer
(1954) Diplomatic Passport
as Philip
(1979) Lovers and Liars
as ---
(1964) First Men in the Moon
as Dr. Tok, UN Space Agency (uncredited)
(1983) The Scarlet and the Black
as Papal Secretary
(1984) Memed My Hawk
as Suleyman
(1984) A Glass Full of Snow
as Nullo
(1985) The Assisi Underground
as Rabbi
(1980) The Day Christ Died
as Jacob
(1974) Street Law
as Records Keeper (uncredited)
(1953) Deadly Nightshade
as Heinz
(1985) I Am an ESP
as ---
(1957) Windom's Way
as Commissioner Belhedron
(1968) The Shoes of the Fisherman
as Cardinal Rahamani
(1973) Shaft in Africa
as Col. Gonder
(1979) Ashanti
as Touareg Chief
(1957) Interpol
as Guido Martinelli
(1958) I Was Monty's Double
as Arab Proprietor
(1960) Visa to Canton
as Han Po
(1963) Sammy Going South
as Hassan
(1985) Mussolini and I
as King Victor Emanuel
(1954) Svengali
as Stage Manager
(1982) Trail of the Pink Panther
as Deputy Commissioner Lasorde
(1955) Break in the Circle
as The phony Kudnic
(1969) Anne of the Thousand Days
as Campeggio
(1961) Three on a Spree
as Eastern Gentleman
(1985) The Key to Rebecca
as Gaafar
(1959) Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
as Archipolagos
(1964) Master Spy
as Dr. Asafu
(1990) Cellini: A Violent Life
as ---
(1969) Department S
as Turkish Caretaker
(1961) The Avengers
as Becker
(1962) The Saint
as The Guru
(1967) Callan
as ---
(1968) The Champions
as Minoes
(1956) The Buccaneers
as Turk
(1968) Journey to the Unknown
as ---
(1959) No Hiding Place
as ---
(1959) Interpol Calling
as Bhandari
(1961) Sir Francis Drake
as Uluch Ali
(1959) Boy Meets Girls
as ---
(1959) International Detective
as Inspector Rabat
(1956) Colonel March of Scotland Yard
as Thoreau
(1960) Maigret
as ---
(1956) Colonel March of Scotland Yard
as Waiter
(1979) La promessa
as Von Gunthen
(1978) Return of the Saint
as Kemal
(1962) The Saint
as Borota
(1962) The Saint
as Esteban