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 and The Imaginary Invalid).

Actor

1921

[ ] The Headmaster (Palliser Grantley)

1925

[ ] Battling Bruisers: Some Boxing Buffoonery (????)

1930

[ ] Night Birds (Minor Role)
[ ] Children of Chance (????)

1931

[ ] A Night in Montmartre (Minor Role)
[ ] City of Song (Theater Watchman)

1932

[ ] The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (Thaddeus Sholto)
[ ] Money Means Nothing (Doorman)
[ ] Frail Women (Registrar)
[ ] The Love Contract (Peters)
[ ] Love on Wheels (Academy of Music Porter)
[ ] The Mayor's Nest (Clerk)
[ ] The Blue Danube (????)

1933

[ ] Perfect Understanding (Announcer)
[ ] Summer Lightning (Beach)

1934

[ ] The Queen's Affair (The Chancellor)
[ ] Nell Gwyn (Chiffinch)

1935

[ ] The 39 Steps (Palladium Manager (uncredited))
[ ] Lazybones (Pessimist)
[ ] Vintage Wine (Henri Popinot)
[ ] Peg of Old Drury (Minor Role (uncredited))
[ ] Lazybones (The Pessimist)

1936

[ ] Rhodes of Africa (Minor Role (uncredited))
[ ] Tudor Rose (Jane's Father)

1937

[ ] Knight Without Armour (Drunken Red Commissar)
[ ] Victoria the Great (Sir James)
[ ] Action for Slander (Minor Role)

1938

[ ] Sixty Glorious Years (Wounded Soldier)

1939

[ ] Q Planes (Minor Role)

1940

[ ] The Thief of Bagdad (Sultan)
[ ] For Freedom (Minor Role)

1941

[ ] Major Barbara (Morrison)

1942

[ ] Unpublished Story (Farmfield)
[ ] They Flew Alone (Vacuum Salesman)
[ ] Thunder Rock (Chairman of Directors)

1943

[ ] The Demi-Paradise (Theatre Cashier)
[ ] The Gentle Sex (Tran Guard)

1945

[ 6/10 ] Dead of Night (Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor"))
[ ] Journey Together ((uncredited))

1946

[ ] Land of Promise (Mr. Know-All)

1947

[ ] While the Sun Shines (Horton)

1948

[ ] Saraband for Dead Lovers (Lord of Misrule)
[ ] Bond Street (Minor Role (uncredited))
[ ] Idol of Paris (Offenbach)
[ ] Woman Hater (Vicar)
[ ] One Night with You (Jailer)

1949

[ ] The Queen of Spades (Tchybukin)
[ ] The Perfect Woman (Prof. Ernest Belman)
[ ] Cardboard Cavalier (Judge Gorebucket)
[ ] Kind Hearts and Coronets (The Hangman)
[ ] Train of Events (Johnson, the Timekeeper)

1950

[ 4/10 ] Stage Fright (Mr. Fortesque)
[ ] Golden Salamander (Douvet)

1951

[ ] Scrooge (Old Joe)
[ ] The Man in the White Suit (The Tailor)

1952

[ ] The Importance of Being Earnest (Canon Chasuble)
[ ] Trent's Last Case (Burton Cupples)
[ ] The Woman's Angle (A. Secrett)
[ ] The Happy Family (Mr. Thwaites)
[ ] Treasure Hunt (Mr. Walsh)
[ ] The Magic Box (Orchestra Conductor)
[ ] Folly to Be Wise (Dr. Hector McAdam)
[ ] Venetian Bird (Grespi)

1953

[ ] The Captain's Paradise (Lawrence St. James)

1955

[ ] King's Rhapsody (Jules)
[ ] Geordie (Lord Paunceton)

1956

[ ] Private's Progress (Mr. Windrush Sr.)
[ ] Dry Rot (Country Gentleman)
[ ] The Silken Affair (Mr. Blucher)
[ ] Three Men in a Boat (2nd Old Gentleman)
[ ] The Man Who Never Was (Scientist)

1957

[ ] Barnacle Bill (Angler)
[ ] The Admirable Crichton (????)
[ ] Brothers in Law (Kendall Grimes Q.C.)
[ ] The Naked Truth (Reverend Cedric "Daddy Bassy" Bastable)
[ ] Campbell's Kingdom ((unconfirmed - not present in US release version))

1958

[ ] Happy Is the Bride (1st Magistrate)
[ ] Behind the Mask (Sir Oswald Pettiford)
[ ] Bachelor of Hearts (Dr. Butson)
[ ] Dracula (Marx - Undertaker (uncredited))
[ ] Gideon's Day (The Judge)
[ ] A Midsummer Night's Dream (Quince)

1959

[ ] The Hound of the Baskervilles (Bishop Frankland)
[ ] I'm All Right Jack (Windrush Sr., Stanley's father)
[ ] Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (Resident Advisor Davidson)
[ ] The Captain's Table (Canon Swingler)

1960

[ 7/10 ] Peeping Tom (Elderly Gentleman Customer)
[ ] The Brides of Dracula (Dr. Tobler)
[ ] Kidnapped (Mr. Rankeillor)
[ ] The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (Assistant Curator)
[ ] And the Same to You (Bishop)

1961

[ ] The Hellfire Club (Judge)
[ ] Double Bunk (Rev. Thomas)
[ ] The Bing Crosby Show (Self)
[ ] Fury at Smugglers' Bay (Duke of Avon)

1962

[ ] The Phantom of the Opera (2nd Cabby)
[ ] Postman's Knock (Psychiatrist)
[ ] The Brain (Dr. Miller)
[ ] Go to Blazes (Salesman)

1963

[ ] Heavens Above! (Bishop Rockeby)
[ ] Call Me Bwana (Psychiatrist (uncredited))

1964

[ ] Murder Ahoy (Bishop)
[ ] First Men in the Moon (Dymchurch Registrar)
[ ] A Jolly Bad Fellow (Dr. Woolley)
[ ] A Midsummer Night's Dream (Quince)

1965

[ ] You Must Be Joking (Salesman)

Writing