Arthur Malet

Acting · Born 1927-09-24 in Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, England, UK

Biography

Arthur Malet (24 September 1927 – 18 May 2013) was an English actor. He was known for appearing in Mary Poppins (1964), Halloween (1978), The Secret of NIMH (1982), and Hook (1991). Malet was born in Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, England in 1927. He emigrated to the United States in the 1950s, starting out onstage and winning two Drama Desk Awards in 1957. He came to some prominence in the 1960s, starring in films playing characters much older than his real age, such as Mr. Dawes, Jr. in Mary Poppins. He played Joe Fenwick in a 1972 episode of Columbo, "Dagger of the Mind". He went on to play a village elder in Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein in 1974, and Tootles in Hook in 1991. His appearances on television include The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, “The McGregor Affair” (original air date November…

Filmography

• Mary Poppins as Mr. Dawes Jr.
• Halloween as Graveyard Keeper
• Young Frankenstein as Village Elder
• In the Heat of the Night as Ulam
• The Secret of NIMH as Mr. Ages (voice)
• Vanishing Point as Second Male Hitchhiker
• Anastasia as Travelling Man / Major Domo (voice)
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks as Mr. Widdenfield (Museum Guard) (uncredited)
• A Little Princess as Charles Randolph
• Hook as Tootles

TV

• The Andy Griffith Show as Vagrant
• Perry Mason as Ralph Day
• Bewitched
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Dr. Larson
• Night Gallery as Ennis (segment "The Little Black Bag")
• The Andy Griffith Show as Purvis
• MacGyver as Pathologist Ed
• I Dream of Jeannie as Vasmir
• Columbo as Fenwick
• WKRP in Cincinnati as Father O'Riley