People
Miles Malleson
Acting · follow into films and chains
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 and The Imaginary Invalid).
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Importance of Being Earnest
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Thief of Bagdad
As Sultan
Peeping Tom
As Elderly Gentleman Customer
Dracula
As Marx - Undertaker (uncredited)
Stage Fright
As Mr. Fortesque
Dead of Night
As Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")
Scrooge
As Old Joe
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Quiet Art of the British Character Actor
Eight films that celebrate the scene-stealers, the scene-setters, and the soul of British cinema: the character actors who make every frame richer.
8 films
Anarchy in the UK
From Ealing's sly subversions to Python's surreal dismantling of authority, a journey through the films that taught Britain to laugh at itself.
7 films
Related people
Collaborators & neighbours
Acted
Murder Ahoy
1964 · Bishop
Fury at Smugglers' Bay
1961 · Duke of Avon
Peeping Tom
1960 · Elderly Gentleman Customer
I'm All Right Jack
1959 · Windrush Sr., Stanley's father
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1959 · Bishop Frankland
Dracula
1958 · Marx - Undertaker (uncredited)
The Captain's Paradise
1953 · Lawrence St. James
The Importance of Being Earnest
1952 · Canon Chasuble
Scrooge
1951 · Old Joe
The Man in the White Suit
1951 · The Tailor
Stage Fright
1950 · Mr. Fortesque
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · The Hangman
Dead of Night
1945 · Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")
The Thief of Bagdad
1940 · Sultan
