Biography: 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 Saint-Pierre (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 S(1969), and others) in very much the same capacity. He stood out as the mysterious dissident Pandit Baba in the excellent award-winning miniseries The Jewel in the Crown(1984). From the early 1970's until his death, he lived in Rome. - IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 18, 1914
Deathday: December 01, 1991
Popularity:
1951-11-15
Overview: After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-15
Popularity:
1988-01-01
Overview: This is the true story about a group of Romani's (gypsy) in occupied Poland during World War II as they confront the atrocities and tragedies of a forgotten holocaust.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
Popularity:
1957-12-01
Overview: The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their land and lives back from the British colonists. Obam's motives are questioned by his own people, in particular his brother Kanda. With the help of his wife Renee and missionary Bruce Craig, will he be able to get things under control before the country self-destructs? Written by Greg Bruno
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
Popularity:
1972-03-16
Overview: A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-16
Popularity:
1963-06-12
Overview: Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-12
Popularity:
1954-06-08
Overview: Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-08
Popularity:
1977-09-08
Overview: Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-08
Popularity:
1952-10-21
Overview: A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-21
Popularity:
1959-08-18
Overview: Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-18
Popularity:
1961-03-15
Overview: In 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city, but, hidden in the shadows of its many narrow streets, the hideous members of the Red Dragon gang, a branch of the evil Chinese secret society of the Tongs, lurk and murder those who oppose to their tyranny, which thrives on vice, crime and the fear of the weakest.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-15
Popularity:
1966-03-06
Overview: Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious population. Harry's brother dies suddenly, bitten by a lethal reptilian bite. They befriend a young woman Anna whose tyrannical father controls her life and, as they discover that others in the village have suffered a similar fate, their investigations lead to Anna. What they uncover is a victim of the most terrifying legacy... a destiny of mutilation and murder.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-06
Popularity:
1962-06-25
Overview: A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is intent on seeking his revenge.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-25
Popularity:
1958-06-10
Overview: A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and is not accepted by his countrymen.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-10
Popularity:
1961-03-12
Overview: A Russian astronaut trapped in space in a faulty rocket, has five hours to live when his radio makes contact with Marie, a hunter's wife also trapped, in a blizzard swept area of Canada. Her daughter is dying of diphtheria, he as a doctor can help her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-12
Popularity:
1959-12-04
Overview: In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments of the British East-Indian Tea Company. As the British military leaders play down the implications of the piracy and disappearances, a lone captain realizes that they are not just coincidence and sets out to uncover the source of the deviltry, at the risk of his career. Based on history.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-04
Popularity:
1965-12-01
Overview: Mr. Moto goes undercover to find out who has been blowing up oil wells and trying to gain total control of all the oil leases from a petroleum-rich Middle Eastern country.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-01
Popularity:
1959-01-01
Overview: A BAFTA award nominated dramatised documentary telling the story of two steelworkers who attempt to climb a rock in the Dolomites.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
Popularity:
1958-04-15
Overview: Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
Genres: War Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-15
Popularity:
1961-11-10
Overview: During World War II, the residents of a French village find an able helper in their task of making life difficult for German-occupying forces in a Canadian pilot they rescue after he crash-lands in the vicinity and ends up in the hands of the Nazis. As the villagers grow increasingly dependent on the flyer's training and smarts, the Germans grow more determined to eliminate the force behind the strengthened local resistance. [Netflix]
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-10
Popularity:
1967-03-31
Overview: Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia, a "shrewd merciless beauty" who seems effortlessly to collect apartments and Maserati sports cars while leaving a trail of broken hearts behind her. Juan approaches the challenge by pretending to her he is an emissary for a rich count. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-31
Popularity:
1969-09-01
Overview: The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England, thus separating her from the one thing she loves most, a pet Bushbaby. Fearing what the future holds she decides to set the pet free but while doing so misses the boat back to England. After meeting up with a friendly native they try to resolve the situation together. Things take a turn for the worse when it is falsely reported that the native has kidnapped her, thus putting a price on his head
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-01
Popularity:
1960-05-10
Overview: A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-10
Popularity:
1988-09-02
Overview: Caterina's father died before her eyes in the Heysel Stadium disaster. Years later, she's summoned by British police to look at some possible suspects. She recognizes her father's murderer, a Scouser cab driver, but doesn't say anything, choosing to track him down and exact revenge on her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-09-02
Popularity:
1950-06-21
Overview: In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-21
Popularity:
1984-04-22
Overview: Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-22
Popularity:
1966-06-09
Overview: English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
Genres: History War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-09
Popularity:
1979-10-13
Overview: While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-13
Popularity:
1974-12-04
Overview: Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a Thai tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-04
Popularity:
1956-05-01
Overview: Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-01
Popularity:
1959-03-01
Overview: In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
Popularity:
1965-02-15
Overview: After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-15
Popularity:
1968-09-16
Overview: Half-brothers Stefane and Antony despise their biological father, callous millionaire Charles Calvert. Because Charles refuses to share his wealth with his sons, Stefane and Antony ask hip American thrill-seeker Duffy to help steal the money they believe is their birthright. When Charles decides to move a large portion of his savings from Morocco to France, Duffy has an opportunity to stage a daring burglary attempt at sea.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-16
Popularity:
1982-09-03
Overview: Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-03
Popularity:
1972-12-12
Overview: In the sixteenth century, Miguel de Cervantes, poet, playwright, and part-time actor, has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisition. They are accused of presenting an entertainment offensive to the Inquisition. Inside the huge dungeon into which they have been cast, the other prisoners gang up on Cervantes and his manservant, and begin a mock trial, with the intention of stealing or burning his possessions. Cervantes wishes to desperately save a manuscript he carries with him and stages, with costumes, makeup, and the participation of the other prisoners, an unusual defense--the story of Don Quixote.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-12
Popularity:
1968-12-16
Overview: Play based on a story by Chekhov. For Gromov, behind the bars of a mental ward, the railway is the one hope of escape. For the doctor in charge, Andrei, it is the link with civilisation which alone could rose him from the lethargy of life in provincial Russia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-16
Popularity:
1958-08-11
Overview: A £20,000 insurance claim is lodged when a nightclub is destroyed by fire, and claims investigator Mike Davies is assigned to get to the bottom of things. One suspect is Harry Drayson, the club owner but if he torched his own property for the insurance, how safe are his other, heavily insured properties?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-11
Popularity:
1953-12-01
Overview: Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her she has the "evil eye" and brings disaster to all who love her. French doctor Henrik takes her to his clinic, for rehabilitation purposes, and falls in love with her as does his friend, Si Lahssen, the reigning prince of this small Moroccan state. When a plague falls on the town, Saadia is convinced she is responsible, and rides alone into the mountain country to retrieve the plague serum being held for ransom by bandits. The love triangle dominates most of the rest of the film.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-01
Popularity:
1954-08-13
Overview: An American diplomat and his wife arrive in London, and are soon involved in a series of confusing and sometimes frightening events
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-13
Popularity:
1979-01-05
Overview: An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-05
Popularity:
1964-07-01
Overview: The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked 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.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-01
Popularity:
1983-02-02
Overview: Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-02
Popularity:
1984-05-10
Overview: In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, the young man flees his village and joins up with a group of outlaws fighting against the wealthy and powerful landowners who control the lives of the locals and make life miserable for them. The outlaws' successes prompt the governor to call in the Turkish army to capture or kill them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-10
Popularity:
1984-06-12
Overview: The lives of three generations of peasant farmers in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy are the focus of this unexciting, flat-footed saga by Florestano Vancini. When the grandfather (Marne Maitland) first decides to leave his job of canal-building and move to northern Italy, he takes up work as a peasant on the land of a local priest, while his oldest son Venancio (Massimo Ghini) starts driving a carriage. More of a visionary than a chauffeur, Venancio first gets involved in organizing the peasants into a kind of farmer's union, and when that movement goes under, he devotes himself to educating the farmers instead. Along the way, his mother dies, he marries Mariena (Anna Teresa Rossini), and they have children. Much to Venancio's sorrow, his own sons do not want to stay in farming, and as they grow older, only one remains at home to till the soil. In the meantime, the specter of fascism is growing stronger by the day and the clouds of war being to darken the horizon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-06-12
Popularity:
1985-05-03
Overview: This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
Popularity:
1980-03-26
Overview: A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-26
Popularity:
1974-09-17
Overview: Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-17
Popularity:
1953-03-01
Overview: Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-01
Popularity:
1985-12-24
Overview: Roberto Razzi, skeptical and convinced atheist, is the conductor of the Futuro program, in which he unmasks the most common tricks and deceptions that make the miracle cry out to everyone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-12-24
Popularity:
1957-12-07
Overview: A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force both parties to make decisions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-07
Popularity:
1968-11-14
Overview: All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at stake. The new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear nightmare.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-14
Popularity:
1973-06-14
Overview: Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-14
Popularity:
1979-02-21
Overview: Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-21
Popularity:
1957-04-02
Overview: Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-02
Popularity:
1958-10-21
Overview: The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-21
Popularity:
1960-12-26
Overview: A former World War II pilot, now the owner of a travel agency in Hong Kong, gets involved in espionage trying to help a Chinese woman locate her son.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-26
Popularity:
1963-03-18
Overview: After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives. On the way he meets a variety of different people who help or hinder his journey - including an ageing diamond smuggler.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-18
Popularity:
1985-04-14
Overview: A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler to the betrayal of his son-in-law and untimely demise.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-14
Popularity:
1954-09-01
Overview: A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-01
Popularity:
1982-12-03
Overview: The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-03
Popularity:
1955-01-01
Overview: An adventurer is hired by a German millionaire to help a Polish scientist escape to the West.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
Popularity:
1969-12-18
Overview: Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-18
Popularity:
1961-06-28
Overview: A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-28
Popularity:
1985-04-29
Overview: From master storyteller and best-selling author, Ken Follett, comes the exotic spy-thriller based on true events. North Africa, Summer of 1942 — master spy, Alex Wolff is on a mission to send General Erwin Rommel's advancing army the secrets that would unlock the doors to Cairo... and the ultimate Nazi triumph in the war. Wolff's pursuer, Major Vandarn, engages the seductive charm of Elene Fontana to lure him into range for what is to be a startling and explosive confrontation.
Genres: Action Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-29
Popularity:
1959-03-10
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-10
Popularity:
1964-08-19
Overview: Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the British. As Boris struggles to make his superiors believe he is there to work and not to spy for the Russians, an office romance blossoms that could put his mission in jeopardy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-19
Popularity: