Arthur Malet
Known For
Acting
Born
1927-09-24 in Lee-on-Solent, Hampshire, England, UK
Died
2013-05-18
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 23, 1964). Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Malet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Columbo
as Fenwick
Perry Mason
as Ralph Day
MacGyver
as Pathologist Ed
Mission: Impossible
as Undertaker
Bewitched
The Andy Griffith Show
as Vagrant
The Andy Griffith Show
as Purvis
The Waltons
The Fugitive
as Swanzie
Hawaii Five-O
as Artie Boland
Charlie's Angels
as James Hannah
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Burke
St. Elsewhere
as Mr. Peek
The Dick Van Dyke Show
as Engineer
I Dream of Jeannie
as Vasmir
The Facts of Life
The Rifleman
The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West
as Doc Keyno
Barney Miller
as Henry Creighton