Miles Malleson

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1888-05-24 (81 years old)

Deathday

1969-03-15

Place of Birth

Croydon, Surrey, England

Miles Malleson

Biography

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 a...

Acting

1964

Murder Ahoy

as Bishop

1950

Stage Fright

as Mr. Fortesque

1952

1960

Peeping Tom

as Elderly Gentleman Customer

1934

The Queen's Affair

as The Chancellor

1960

1959

1935

The 39 Steps

as Palladium Manager (uncredited)

1940

1951

Scrooge

as Old Joe

1964

First Men in the Moon

as Dymchurch Registrar

1959

I'm All Right Jack

as Windrush Snr.

1945

Dead of Night

as Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")

1959

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

as Resident Advisor Davidson

1960

Kidnapped

as Mr. Rankeillor

1953

The Captain's Paradise

as Lawrence St. James

1962

1948

Saraband for Dead Lovers

as Lord of Misrule

1949

1950

1949

The Perfect Woman

as Prof. Ernest Belman

1962

Postman's Knock

as Psychiatrist

1936

Rhodes of Africa

as Minor Role (uncredited)

1933

1943

The Demi-Paradise

as Theatre Cashier

1933

1949

Cardboard Cavalier

as Judge Gorebucket

1952

Trent's Last Case

as Burton Cupples

1958

Happy Is the Bride

as 1st Magistrate

1965

1959

The Captain's Table

as Canon Swingler

1932

1935

Lazybones

as Pessimist

1957

Barnacle Bill

as Angler

1961

1956

Private's Progress

as Mr. Windrush Sr.

1949

1935

Vintage Wine

as Henri Popinot

1936

Tudor Rose

as Jane's Father

1939

Q Planes

as Minor Role

1964

A Jolly Bad Fellow

as Dr. Woolley

1961

Double Bunk

as Rev. Thomas

1955

1952

The Woman's Angle

as A. Secrett

1940

For Freedom

as Minor Role

1930

Night Birds

as Minor Role

1962

The Brain

as Dr. Miller

1937

Knight Without Armour

as Drunken Red Commissar

1932

Frail Women

as Registrar

1942

Unpublished Story

as Farmfield

1937

Victoria the Great

as Sir James

1963

Heavens Above!

as Bishop Rockeby

1958

Behind the Mask

as Sir Oswald Pettiford

1932

1932

Love on Wheels

as Academy of Music Porter

1942

They Flew Alone

as Vacuum Salesman

1931

1952

The Happy Family

as Mr. Thwaites

1938

Sixty Glorious Years

as Wounded Soldier

1955

Geordie

as Lord Paunceton

1941

Major Barbara

as Morrison

1937

Action for Slander

as Minor Role

1952

Treasure Hunt

as Mr. Walsh

1934

Nell Gwyn

as Chiffinch

1958

Bachelor of Hearts

as Dr. Butson

1952

The Magic Box

as Orchestra Conductor

1931

City of Song

as Theater Watchman

1958

Dracula

as Marx - Undertaker (uncredited)

1932

1956

Dry Rot

as Country Gentleman

1951

1943

The Gentle Sex

as Tran Guard

1942

Thunder Rock

as Chairman of Directors

1949

Train of Events

as Johnson, the Timekeeper

1960

1957

Brothers in Law

as Kendall Grimes Q.C.

1956

The Silken Affair

as Mr. Blucher

1935

Peg of Old Drury

as Minor Role (uncredited)

1946

Land of Promise

as Mr. Know-All

1948

Bond Street

as Minor Role (uncredited)

1952

Folly to Be Wise

as Dr. Hector McAdam

1956

Three Men in a Boat

as 2nd Old Gentleman

1962

Go to Blazes

as Salesman

1952

Venetian Bird

as Grespi

1945

Journey Together

as (uncredited)

1948

Idol of Paris

as Offenbach

1958

Gideon's Day

as The Judge

1956

1948

Woman Hater

as Vicar

1957

The Naked Truth

as Rev. Bastable

1957

Campbell's Kingdom

as (unconfirmed - not present in US release version)

1961

Fury at Smugglers' Bay

as Duke of Avon

1921

The Headmaster

as Palliser Grantley

1935

Lazybones

as The Pessimist

Production

2021

1940

The Thief of Bagdad

as Screenplay

1942

1943

Yellow Canary

as Screenplay

1942

They Flew Alone

as Screenplay

1933

Summer Lightning

as Screenplay

1938

1934

The Queen's Affair

as Screenplay

1932

1937

Action for Slander

as Screenplay

1943

1930

The W Plan

as Writer

1937

The Rat

as Dialogue

1930

Night Birds

as Writer

1932

1937

1936

Rhodes of Africa

as Dialogue

1934

1931

Lucky children

as Screenplay

1930

1931

City of Song

as Writer

1930

Two Worlds

as Dialogue

1930

The Yellow Mask

as Dialogue

1931

A Night in Montmartre

as Theatre Play

1931

Sally in Our Alley

as Screenplay

1932

1933

1934

Nell Gwyn

as Writer

1935

Peg of Old Drury

as Scenario Writer

1946

1930

1936

Tudor Rose

as Writer

1940

2020

Conflict

as Writer

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