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Miles Malleson was a prolific screenwriter during the '30s, in particular associated with historical subjects such as Nell Gwyn (d. Miles malleson biography wikipedia He became ill and was discharged, unfit for further service. He became active in the No-Conscription Fellowship and wrote anti-war stage plays as well as a pamphlet, Cranks and Commonsense In the s he began to write for the screen and act in films, in which he became a very well-known character actor, as well as continuing his stage career at the Old Vic in London. He married three times: his second marriage was to Joan Billson, a physician married , divorced , with whom he had two children; his third wife was Tatiana Lieven, an actress married He died in London in MarchHerbert Wilcox, ), Tudor Rose (d. Robert Stevenson, ) and the hugely successful Victoria the Great (d. Wilcox, ), all of which he also appeared in. He was equally prolific as an actor. While his chinless features made him ideal casting as a bumbling or pompous fool, his intelligence and energy enabled him to endow these roles with genuine wit and vim. Miles malleson biography William Miles Malleson 25 May — 15 March was an English actor and dramatist, particularly remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the s to s. 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 and The Thief of Bagdad Miles' cousin and contemporary, Lucy Malleson, had a long career as a mystery novelist, mostly under the pen name " Anthony Gilbert ". At Cambridge , he created a sensation when it was discovered that he had successfully posed as a politician and given a speech instead of the visitor who had failed to attend a debating society dinner.He is the theatre manager in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (), the comic relief in several Hammer horrors, and the gentleman attempting to purchase pornographic 'views' in Peeping Tom (d. Michael Powell, ). He is also the hangman in Kind Hearts and Coronets (d. Robert Hamer, ) who contemplates retirement because, after hanging a duke with a silken rope, he could "never again be content with hemp". Peter Hutchings, Encyclopedia of British Film | |
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