Distinctive character actor born in Calcutta and educated at Magdalen College Cambridge His acting career was interrupted by wartime service for six years in the British Army He then joined the Old Vic Company and subsequently appeared on screen With his hooked nose and furtive eyes he made the perfect sinister villain playing an assortment of Arabic or Central Asian diamond smugglers drug dealers or black market racketeers Occasionally he was on the right side of the law notably as commissioner Govindaswami in La croisée des destins 1956 or as a cardinal in Les souliers de SaintPierre 1968 Early on in his career Maitland worked for Hammer Studios where he had memorable roles as Patel Shari a member of the murderous Kali sect in Les étrangleurs de Bombay 1959 and as an evil Malay servant dedicated to worshipping La femme reptile 1966 Marne was also very active on British television Le Saint 1962 Département S1969 and others in very much the same capacity He stood out as the mysterious dissident Pandit Baba in the excellent awardwinning miniseries The Jewel in the Crown1984 From the early 1970s until his death he lived in Rome IMDb Mini Biography By ISMowis
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