Miles Malleson

Screenwriter

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Birth Place

Croydon, England, GB

Born

May 25, 1888

Died

March 15, 1969

Biography

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Made his British stage debut in 1911 and entered films in the early 1930s....

Filmography

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You Must Be Joking! (1965)

The Brain (1964)

Murder Ahoy (1964)

Bishop Faulkner

First Men IN the Moon (1964)

They All Died Laughing (1964)

Circus World (1964)

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Thief Of Bagdad, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) This Is No Dog

Thief Of Bagdad, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Free, Free, After Two Thousand Years

Biography

Made his British stage debut in 1911 and entered films in the early 1930s.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

You Must Be Joking! (1965)

The Brain (1964)

Murder Ahoy (1964)

Bishop Faulkner

First Men IN the Moon (1964)

They All Died Laughing (1964)

Circus World (1964)

Fury at Smuggler's Bay (1963)

Heavens Above! (1963)

The Hellfire Club (1963)

Bachelor of Hearts (1962)

The Phantom of the Opera (1962)

Philosophical cabby

Go to Blazes (1962)

Postman's Knock (1962)

Double Bunk (1961)

Reverend Thomas

Peeping Tom (1960)

Elderly gentleman

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)

Assistant curator

The Brides of Dracula (1960)

Kidnapped (1960)

And The Same To You (1960)

I'm All Right Jack (1960)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

Bishop [Franklin]

Gideon of Scotland Yard (1959)

Judge at Old Bailey

Man in a Cocked Hat (1959)

British Resident

Paradise Lagoon (1958)

All at Sea (1958)

Happy Is the Bride (1958)

Behind The Mask (1958)

Sir Oswald Pettiford

Your Past Is Showing (1958)

Reverend Bastable

The Silken Affair (1958)

Horror of Dracula (1958)

Brothers in Law (1957)

The Man Who Never Was (1956)

Private's Progress (1956)

Windrush Senior

Three Men in a Boat (1956)

King's Rhapsody (1955)

Trent's Last Case (1953)

The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952)

The Woman's Angle (1952)

A Christmas Carol (1951)

The Magic Box (1951)

Stage Fright (1950)

The History of Mr. Polly (1949)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

The Queen of Spades (1948)

Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)

Dead of Night (1945)

Demi-Paradise (1943)

Box Office Manager

Wings and the Woman (1942)

This Was Paris (1942)

Major Barbara (1941)

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

The Lion Has Wings (1940)

Knight Without Armor (1937)

Drunken Red commissar

Nine Days a Queen (1936)

Nell Gwyn (1935)

Runaway Queen (1934)

Perfect Understanding (1933)

The Sign of Four (1932)

Thaddeus Sholto

Writer (Feature Film)

Yellow Canary (1944)

Wings and the Woman (1942)

Scenario and Screenplay

The First of the Few (1942)

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

Screenplay and dial

Queen of Destiny (1940)

Scenario and dial

Action for Slander (1938)

Screenplay Adapted

Victoria the Great (1937)

Peg of Old Drury (1936)

Original story and Screenplay

Nine Days a Queen (1936)

Nell Gwyn (1935)

Nell Gwyn (1935)

Lorna Doone (1935)

Perfect Understanding (1933)

Perfect Understanding (1933)

Strange Evidence (1933)

Life Events

Videos

Thief Of Bagdad, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) This Is No Dog Plenty of spectacle in the opening scene, introducing the evil magician Jaffar (Conrad Veidt) arriving in Basra, and the not-much-explained "Blind Man" (John Justin), in Alexander Korda's The Thief Of Bagdad, 1940.

Thief Of Bagdad, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Free, Free, After Two Thousand Years Abu (Sabu), shipwrecked by his evil magician enemy, discovers a bottle, the not overly bright Djinn (Rex Ingram) inside, one of the more famous effects from producer Alexander Korda's The Thief Of Bagdad, 1940.

Thief Of Bagdad, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) You Talk In Riddles In Basra, blind Ahmad, King of Bagdad (John Justin), closely observed by sneaky Halima (Mary Morris) and her master Jaffar (Conrad Veidt), reveals his back-story and his dog's too, introducing Sabu as "Abu," early in Alexander Korda's The Thief Of Bagdad, 1940.

Murder Ahoy -- (1964) -- (Movie Clip) To Put Backbone Into Young Jellyfish In her village where Miss Marple (Margaret Rutherford, in an original, non-Agathae Christie story), who was outfitted with a naval suit during the credits, joins a meeting chaired by the bishop (Miles Malleson) but derailed by Ffolly-Hardwicke (Henry Longhurst), from the third in the MGM series, Murder Ahoy, 1964.

Stage Fright (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I Love Strange Men Aspiring actress Eve (Jane Wyman) pretends feeling faint, drawing the attention of first Fortesque (Miles Malleson) then policeman Smith (Michael Wilding), hoping to learn about the murder he's investigating, in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright, 1950.

Thief Of Bagdad, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Most Complete Completion Jaffar (Conrad Veidt), evil usurper of the throne of Bagdad, visits the nutty Sultan of Basra (Miles Malleson, also the screenwriter), offering toys in the hope of procuring his daughter (June Duprez), in Alexander Korda's The Thief Of Bagdad, 1940.

First Of The Few -- (Movie Clip) Strange Ideas Aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell (producer and director Leslie Howard) with wife Diana (Rosamund John) en route to celebrations after his plane wins a race, bosses Bride and Higgins (Roland Culver, David Horne) thwarting his plans, in First Of The Few, 18942.

First Of The Few -- (Movie Clip) Zero Day On the day later known as "Battle Of Britain Day," controllers and pilots repel German raids, cameos by famous fliers including Tony Bartley and Brian Kingcombe, David Niven as the character "Crisp," in the bio-pic starring, produced and directed by Leslie Howard, First Of The Few, 1942.

First Of The Few -- (Movie Clip) British Faith And Purpose Producer, director and star Leslie Howard narrates the opening, heady framing featuring footage the high command of Nazi Germany, and the voice of PM Churchill, in the aviation-history bio-pic First Of The Few, a.k.a. Spitfire, 1942.

First Of The Few -- (Movie Clip) This Is The Future Dining with wife Diana (Rosamund John), test pilot Crisp (David Niven) and his obligatory date (Rosalyn Boulter), aircraft designer Mitchell (producer and director Leslie Howard) reveals plans that will become the famous "Spitfire" fighter, in First Of The Few, 1942.

Trent's Last Case -- (Movie Clip) Unfit To Live Reporter and amateur sleuth Trent (Michael Wilding) tracks down old friend Cupples (Miles Malleson), also the uncle of the widow of the deceased, on the golf course, in Trent's Last Case, 1953, from the E.C. Bentley novel.

Man In A Cocked Hat -- (Movie Clip) No Lavatories The newly arrived young king (Ian Bannen) baffles the Brits (Terry-Thomas, Thorley Walters) then his own Prime Minister Amphibulos (Peter Sellers) in the Boulting brothers' Man In A Cocked Hat (a.k.a. Carlton-Browne Of The F.O.), 1959.

First Men In The Moon - (Original Trailer) In 1899, a British scientist creates a craft that takes him and two others to the Moon in H.G. Wells' First Men In The Moon, 1964, special effects by Ray Harryhausen.

Captain's Paradise, The - (Original Trailer) Alec Guinness runs a ferryboat between Gibraltar and Tangiers, with a wife in each port. It's The Captain's Paradise (1953).

Postman's Knock - (Original Trailer) The Goon Show comedian Spike Milligan plays a too-efficient mailman in Postman's Knock (1962).

This Was Paris - (Original Trailer) On the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other in This Was Paris (1942).

Wings and the Woman - (Original Trailer) Wings and the Woman (1942), the true story of Amy Johnson, England's record-breaking airplane pilot of the 1930's.

Murder Ahoy - (Original Trailer) Margaret Rutherford played Agatha Christie's Miss Marple for the last time in Murder Ahoy (1964), a mystery set on a naval training ship.

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