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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 24, 1888
Died
March 15, 1969
Place of Birth
Croydon, Surrey, England
Also Known As
- Майлс Моллесон
- William Miles Malleson
Miles Malleson
0.7 Popularity
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).
Known For
5.1
Salesman
You Must Be Joking
1965
0.0
Conyngham
Victoria Regina
1964
7.1
Bishop
Murder Ahoy
1964
6.4
Dymchurch Registrar
First Men in the Moon
1964
0.0
Quince
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1964
4.0
Dr. Woolley
A Jolly Bad Fellow
1964
5.2
Psychiatrist (uncredited)
Call Me Bwana
1963
6.4
Bishop Rockeby
Heavens Above!
1963
5.6
Dr. Miller
The Brain
1962
6.4
2nd Cabby
The Phantom of the Opera
1962
Credits
You Must Be Joking
as Salesman
1965
5.1
Victoria Regina
as Conyngham
1964
0.0
Murder Ahoy
as Bishop
1964
7.1
First Men in the Moon
as Dymchurch Registrar
1964
6.4
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Quince
1964
0.0
A Jolly Bad Fellow
as Dr. Woolley
1964
4.0
Call Me Bwana
as Psychiatrist (uncredited)
1963
5.2
Heavens Above!
as Bishop Rockeby
1963
6.4
The Brain
as Dr. Miller
1962
5.6
The Phantom of the Opera
as 2nd Cabby
1962
6.4
Go to Blazes
as Salesman
1962
6.3
Postman's Knock
as Psychiatrist
1962
4.3
The Bing Crosby Show
as Self
1961
2.0
Double Bunk
as Rev. Thomas
1961
5.7
The Hellfire Club
as Judge
1961
4.7
Fury at Smugglers' Bay
as Duke of Avon
1961
5.7
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
as Assistant Curator
1960
6.1
Peeping Tom
as Elderly Gentleman Customer
1960
7.4
The Brides of Dracula
as Dr. Tobler
1960
6.7
Kidnapped
as Mr. Rankeillor
1960
6.6
And the Same to You
as Bishop
1960
5.6
I'm All Right Jack
as Windrush Sr., Stanley's father
1959
6.6
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Bishop Frankland
1959
6.8
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
as Resident Advisor Davidson
1959
5.9
The Captain's Table
as Canon Swingler
1959
5.8
Bachelor of Hearts
as Dr. Butson
1958
5.6
Behind the Mask
as Sir Oswald Pettiford
1958
6.0
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Quince
1958
0.0
Dracula
as Marx - Undertaker (uncredited)
1958
7.3
Gideon's Day
as The Judge
1958
6.4
Happy Is the Bride
as 1st Magistrate
1958
6.2
Barnacle Bill
as Angler
1957
6.4
The Naked Truth
as Reverend Cedric "Daddy Bassy" Bastable
1957
6.7
Campbell's Kingdom
as (unconfirmed - not present in US release version)
1957
5.9
The Admirable Crichton
1957
6.9
Brothers in Law
as Kendall Grimes Q.C.
1957
7.1
Three Men in a Boat
as 2nd Old Gentleman
1956
6.3
Dry Rot
as Country Gentleman
1956
7.1
The Silken Affair
as Mr. Blucher
1956
1.0
The Buccaneers
as Josiah Parkerhouse
1956
5.5
The Man Who Never Was
as Scientist
1956
7.0
Private's Progress
as Mr. Windrush Sr.
1956
6.6
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Albertus
1955
6.3
🎬
Television Playhouse
as Uncle Simon
1955
0.0
Geordie
as Lord Paunceton
1955
6.8
King's Rhapsody
as Jules
1955
3.0
The Captain's Paradise
as Lawrence St. James
1953
5.4
Folly to Be Wise
as Dr. Hector McAdam
1952
6.7
Venetian Bird
as Grespi
1952
5.9
Trent's Last Case
as Burton Cupples
1952
5.2
The Importance of Being Earnest
as Canon Chasuble
1952
7.2
Treasure Hunt
as Mr. Walsh
1952
5.4
The Happy Family
as Mr. Thwaites
1952
7.2
The Woman's Angle
as A. Secrett
1952
0.0
The Magic Box
as Orchestra Conductor
1952
6.4
Scrooge
as Old Joe
1951
7.4
The Man in the White Suit
as The Tailor
1951
6.9
Stage Fright
as Mr. Fortesque
1950
6.8
Golden Salamander
as Douvet
1950
5.9
Sunday Night Theatre
as Quince
1950
3.5
Kind Hearts and Coronets
as The Hangman
1949
7.6
The Perfect Woman
as Prof. Ernest Belman
1949
6.0
Cardboard Cavalier
as Judge Gorebucket
1949
5.7
The Queen of Spades
as Tchybukin
1949
6.5
Train of Events
as Johnson, the Timekeeper
1949
6.2
Woman Hater
as Vicar
1948
7.0
Saraband for Dead Lovers
as Lord of Misrule
1948
6.4
Bond Street
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1948
6.8
One Night with You
as Jailer
1948
6.5
Idol of Paris
as Offenbach
1948
7.0
While the Sun Shines
as Horton
1947
0.0
Land of Promise
as Mr. Know-All
1946
0.0
Journey Together
as (uncredited)
1945
6.4
Dead of Night
as Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")
1945
7.2
The Demi-Paradise
as Theatre Cashier
1943
6.3
The Gentle Sex
as Tran Guard
1943
7.0
Thunder Rock
as Chairman of Directors
1942
6.2
Unpublished Story
as Farmfield
1942
6.3
They Flew Alone
as Vacuum Salesman
1942
6.0
Major Barbara
as Morrison
1941
6.7
🎬
For Freedom
as Minor Role
1940
0.0
The Thief of Bagdad
as Sultan
1940
7.1
Q Planes
as Minor Role
1939
5.9
Sixty Glorious Years
as Wounded Soldier
1938
6.0
Victoria the Great
as Sir James
1937
5.4
Knight Without Armour
as Drunken Red Commissar
1937
5.6
Action for Slander
as Minor Role
1937
0.0
Tudor Rose
as Jane's Father
1936
8.1
Rhodes of Africa
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1936
6.0
Peg of Old Drury
as Minor Role (uncredited)
1935
6.3
Lazybones
as Pessimist
1935
6.3
Lazybones
as The Pessimist
1935
6.3
Vintage Wine
as Henri Popinot
1935
5.7
The 39 Steps
as Palladium Manager (uncredited)
1935
7.3
🎬
Nell Gwyn
as Chiffinch
1934
6.6
The Queen's Affair
as The Chancellor
1934
0.0
🎬
Summer Lightning
as Beach
1933
0.0
Perfect Understanding
as Announcer
1933
6.1
🎬
Money Means Nothing
as Doorman
1932
0.0
🎬
The Love Contract
as Peters
1932
0.0
Love on Wheels
as Academy of Music Porter
1932
5.0
The Mayor's Nest
as Clerk
1932
0.0
The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
as Thaddeus Sholto
1932
4.6
🎬
Frail Women
as Registrar
1932
4.7
The Blue Danube
1932
1.5
A Night in Montmartre
as Minor Role
1931
5.0
City of Song
as Theater Watchman
1931
0.0
Children of Chance
1930
0.0
Night Birds
as Minor Role
1930
2.0
Battling Bruisers: Some Boxing Buffoonery
1925
0.0
🎬
The Headmaster
as Palliser Grantley
1921
0.0