Arthur Malet

Arthur Malet (24 September 1927 – 18 May 2013) was an English stage, film and television actor based in the United States.[2]

Arthur Malet
Born
Vivian Arthur Rivers Malet

(1927-09-24)24 September 1927
Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England[1]
Died18 May 2013(2013-05-18) (aged 85)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
OccupationActor
Years active1956–1998 (retired)

Life and career

Vivian Arthur Rivers Malet was born in 1927 in Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England, the son of Henry Guy Rivers Malet and Olga Muriel Balfour; a scion of the Malet baronets[3] He emigrated to the United States in the 1950s, changed his forename to Arthur, began acting onstage, and won two Drama Desk Awards in 1957. He came to some prominence in 1960s films, often playing characters much older than his real age, such as Mr. Dawes, Jr., in Disney's Mary Poppins (1964), and King Eidilleg in Disney's 1985 animated film The Black Cauldron.

He played undertaker Ted Ulam in Norman Jewison's 1967 film In the Heat of the Night, and Joe Fenwick in a 1972 episode of Columbo, "Dagger of the Mind". He went on to play a village elder in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein in 1974, the graveyard keeper in John Carpenter's Halloween in 1978, a houseman in the 1984 film Oh God, You Devil, Tootles in 1991's Hook, and Owen Owens in the 1992 film Toys.[4]

His appearances on television included episodes of The Donna Reed Show, The Rifleman, Adventures in Paradise, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ("The McGregor Affair"; originally aired 23 November 1964), and Bewitched ("The Trial and Error of Aunt Clara"; originally aired 2 February 1967), and Dallas. In 1965 he appeared as murder victim Ralph Day in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Golden Venom." He played a vagrant who claimed to have stolen Aunt Bea's pin on The Andy Griffith Show in 1966. In 1969 Malet appeared as the Night Clerk on the TV Series The Virginian in the episode titled "Journey to Scathelock." In 1995, he portrayed Charles Randolph in A Little Princess. In 1997, he did voice work in Anastasia. He voiced the character of "Mr. Ages" in The Secret of NIMH in 1982 and reprised the role in The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue in 1998.

Death

Malet died on 18 May 2013 at age 85, in Santa Monica, California.

Filmography
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References
  1. Birth record transcript
    GRO Birth Registry
    Civil registration event: Birth
    Name: MALET, Vivian R.
    Registration district: Fareham
    County: Hampshire
    Year of registration: 1927
    Quarter of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
    Mother's maiden name: Balfour
    Volume no: 2B
    Page #818
  2. Tom B. "Boot Hill: RIP Arthur Malet". Westernboothill.blogspot.co.uk. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  3. Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage. https://www.debretts.com/product/debretts-peerage/: Debrett's Ltd. 2019. ISBN 978-1999767006.
  4. Arthur Malet profile at Allmovie.com; retrieved 2 January 2007.
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