Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1888-05-24 (81 years old)
Deathday
1969-03-15
Place of Birth
Croydon, Surrey, England
Also known As
Майлс Моллесон
William Miles Malleson
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...
1964
as Bishop
1950
as Mr. Fortesque
1952
as Canon Chasuble
1960
as Elderly Gentleman Customer
1934
as The Chancellor
1960
as Dr. Tobler
1959
as Bishop Frankland
1935
as Palladium Manager (uncredited)
1940
as Sultan
1951
as Old Joe
1964
as Dymchurch Registrar
1959
as Windrush Snr.
1945
as Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")
1959
as Resident Advisor Davidson
1960
as Mr. Rankeillor
1953
as Lawrence St. James
1962
as 2nd Cabby
1948
as Lord of Misrule
1949
as Tchybukin
1960
as Assistant Curator
1950
as Douvet
1949
as Prof. Ernest Belman
1962
as Psychiatrist
1936
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1932
as Thaddeus Sholto
1933
as Announcer
1943
as Theatre Cashier
1933
as Beach
1949
as Judge Gorebucket
1952
as Burton Cupples
1958
as 1st Magistrate
1965
as Salesman
1959
as Canon Swingler
1932
as Doorman
1935
as Pessimist
1957
as Angler
1961
as Judge
1956
as Mr. Windrush Sr.
1949
as The Hangman
1935
as Henri Popinot
1936
as Jane's Father
1939
as Minor Role
1964
as Dr. Woolley
1961
as Rev. Thomas
1955
as Jules
1952
as A. Secrett
1940
as Minor Role
1930
as Minor Role
1962
as Dr. Miller
1937
as Drunken Red Commissar
1932
as Registrar
1942
as Farmfield
1937
as Sir James
1963
as Bishop Rockeby
1958
as Sir Oswald Pettiford
1932
as Peters
1932
as Academy of Music Porter
1942
as Vacuum Salesman
1931
as Minor Role
1952
as Mr. Thwaites
1938
as Wounded Soldier
1955
as Lord Paunceton
1941
as Morrison
1937
as Minor Role
1952
as Mr. Walsh
1934
as Chiffinch
1958
as Dr. Butson
1952
as Orchestra Conductor
1931
as Theater Watchman
1958
as Marx - Undertaker (uncredited)
1932
as Clerk
1961
as Self
1956
as Country Gentleman
1951
as The Tailor
1943
as Tran Guard
1942
as Chairman of Directors
1949
as Johnson, the Timekeeper
1960
as Bishop
1957
as Kendall Grimes Q.C.
1956
as Mr. Blucher
1935
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1946
as Mr. Know-All
1948
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1952
as Dr. Hector McAdam
1956
as 2nd Old Gentleman
1962
as Salesman
1952
as Grespi
1945
as (uncredited)
1948
as Offenbach
1958
as The Judge
1956
as Scientist
1948
as Vicar
1957
as Rev. Bastable
1957
as (unconfirmed - not present in US release version)
1947
as Horton
1964
as Quince
1961
as Duke of Avon
1932
1921
as Palliser Grantley
1935
as The Pessimist
2021
as Writer
1940
as Screenplay
1942
as Screenplay
1943
as Screenplay
1942
as Screenplay
1933
as Screenplay
1938
as Writer
1934
as Screenplay
1932
as Writer
1937
as Screenplay
1943
as Writer
1930
as Writer
1937
as Dialogue
1930
as Writer
1932
as Writer
1937
as Writer
1936
as Dialogue
1934
as Writer
1931
as Screenplay
1930
as Writer
1931
as Writer
1930
as Dialogue
1930
as Dialogue
1931
as Theatre Play
1931
as Screenplay
1932
as Writer
1933
as Dialogue
1933
as Story
1934
as Writer
1935
as Scenario Writer
1946
as Writer
1930
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1938
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1943
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1936
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1940
as Dialogue
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