Miles Malleson

Miles Malleson

Date of Birth: 25 May 1888

Country: UK

Total Credits at Criticker: 37 (Actor), 19 (Writer)

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    The Hound of the Baskervilles
    When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate. (imdb)
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    Peeping Tom
    A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
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    Stage Fright
    Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his lover's husband. (imdb)
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    The Thief of Bagdad
    Prince Ahmad is the rightful King of Bagdad but he has been blinded and cast out as a beggar. Now a captive of the wicked Grand Vizier Jaffar he is cast into a dungeon where he meets Abu, the best thief in all Bagdad. (imdb)
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    The Sign of Four
    A young woman turns to Sherlock Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her. (imdb)
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    The Importance of Being Earnest
    Jack Worthing lives in the country with his pretty ward Cecily Cardew. But in the city, he goes by the name of Earnest and is in love with Gwendolyn Fairfax (imdb)
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    A Christmas Carol
    An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve. (imdb)
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    Kind Hearts and Coronets
    Louis Mazzini's mother's frequent tales of how her titled D'Ascoyn family shunned her after she eloped... (imdb)
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    Dead of Night
    Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare (imdb)
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    First Men in the Moon
    Based on the HG Wells story. The world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, they think for the first time. But the delight turns to shock when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon... (imdb)
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    The Brides of Dracula
    A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr Van Helsing is already on his way. (imdb)
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    Trent\
    A society woman (Margaret Lockwood) is accused of murdering her businessman husband (Orson Welles). Called to piece the clues together is Inspector Trent (Michael Wilding), on the verge of retiring from detection. He learns that the dead man was a louse, providing the wife with plenty of motive... (All Movie Guide)
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    The Naked Truth
    Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose... (imdb)
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    Paradise Lagoon
    Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household; he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test. (imdb)
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    Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
    Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations. (imdb)
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    The Captain\
    The bigamist captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibralter and Spanish Morocco has wives of differing appeal and temperaments in each port. (imdb)
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    Thunder Rock
    A foreign correspondent becomes a lighthouse keeper in despair at the outside world and lives a fantasy life until he finds the spirit to return.
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    The Queen of Spades
    An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards (imdb)
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    Bachelor of Hearts
    German scholar Wolf Hauser arrives for a year at Cambridge. Apart from his studies he tries to muck in with the very English non-academic goings-on while romancing pretty Girton-girl Ann. (imdb)
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    The Brain
    A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer. (imdb)
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    Call Me Bwana
    A wisecracking fraud fights off enemy agents to retrieve a space capsule that crashed in Africa. (TCM.com)
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    Golden Salamander
    A man is torn between tackling a sinister crime syndicate or turning a blind eye to the suffering it creates. (imdb)
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    Brothers in Law
    Newly qualified barrister Roger Thursby joins his flatmate as a trainee at a London law firm. Thrown in at the deep end by the absent-minded senior partner, his first few appearances in court border on the disastrous as he encounters a succession of cantankerous judges. (imdb)
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    Sixty Glorious Years
    Color remake of "Victoria the Great", from the previous year. A biopic about the life of Britain's Queen Victoria.
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    Fury at Smugglers\
    A small coastal village is the setting for smuggling and ship wrecking. Only the Squire's son is prepared to speak out against the man responsible... (Amazon)
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    The Captain\
    A ship's captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties the new position involves, not least the way he becomes the target for all the comely unattached women on board. (imdb)
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    Train of Events
    A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it. (imdb)
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    Unpublished Story
    During the London blitz, a British war correspondent and a female reporter help to uncover a peace organisation supported by Nazi agents which is fomenting panic and defeatism. (BFI)
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    Behind the Mask
    Newly qualified surgeon takes the blame, for his drug addict colleague, after the death their patient, through neglect. (imdb)
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    Dry Rot
    A trio of not particularly bright bookmakers tries to fix a horse race. (imdb)
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    Vintage Wine
    The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
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    Tudor Rose
    A dramatization of Lady Jane Grey's short life, from her forced marriage (which she resisted) to her brief reign as monarch of England and finally to her beheading. The film portrays her as an innocent set up for the slaughter while the scheming courtiers and pretenders to the throne barely pay her mind, as they stab each other in the back in their attempts to gain power and influence. (imdb)
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    The Perfect Woman
    In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of Professor Belman, but it turns out rather to be the Professor's niece Penelope doing a pretty good imitation of the perfect Olga who winds up with them in the bridal suite at the Hotel Splendide. (imdb)
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    Nell Gwyn
    King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions. (imdb)
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    This Was Paris
    On the eve of the Nazi occupation, spies in Paris try to outguess each other.
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    Woman Hater
    Terence is a bachelor who doesn't have much use for women. He meets Colette and takes a dislike to her. He pretends to be a real-estate agent trying to sell her his country estate, all the while planning to expose her.
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    Treasure Hunt
    Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
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