Search results
May 31, 2020 · In this week's Comedy Chronicles, Graham McCann looks at the remarkable life and mission of prolific screen actor Miles Malleson.
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.
We knew instantly what the character was going to be like. 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.
- Best of British
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.
Jun 23, 2018 · A love of progressive politics and enactor of personal modern relationships, Malleson (1888–1969) infused his plays with social justice, personal freedoms, and modern attitudes towards sex and marriage.
Jan 26, 2017 · “Yours Unfaithfully,” Miles Malleson’s 1933 play, now receiving its world premiere at the Mint Theater, is a refined, rueful and often shrewd comedy about polyamory, written decades before...
People also ask
What did Miles Malleson look like?
Did Miles Malleson have a chin?
Who is Miles Malleson?
Was Miles Malleson a communist?
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. Yet he was far from being the idiot he portrayed and his career as a screenwriter is at least as distinguished as his career as an actor.
