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William Miles Malleson (25 May 1888 – 15 March 1969) was an English actor and dramatist, particularly remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s.
Miles Malleson’s beaming, cherubic face seemed a permanent fixture in British films (especially Ealing comedies and Hammer Horrors) in the 1950s; his trademark a bumbling, distracted demeanour, with perhaps an undercurrent of mischief.
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Miles Malleson (OB. 1899-08) Born: 25 May 1888, Croydon, Surrey. Died: 15 March 1969 - British actor, scriptwriter and playwright. Malleson is probably most familiar as the genteel hangman of Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) or as Canon Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest (1952).
Actor, Screenwriter. He will be best remembered for his role as 'Old Joe' in the classic holiday film, A Christmas Carol (1951), which was based on the book by Charles Dickens. The film also starred Alastair Sim as the crotchety title character, the miser, 'Ebenezer Scrooge.' He was born as William Miles Malleson in...
Miles Malleson (1888 - 1969) Miles Malleson was one of the most ubiquitous character actors in British cinema. His lack of a chin lead to him being typecast as bumbling vicars or pompous fools.
William Miles Malleson, known as Miles Malleson, was an English actor and playwright. Malleson was born in Croydon, Surrey, the son of Edmund Taylor Malleson (1859-1909), a manufacturing chemist, and Myrrha Bithynia Frances Borrell (1863-1931).
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