# Arthur Malet

Arthur Malet (24 September 1927 – 18 May 2013) was an English actor. He was known for his films Mary Poppins (1964), Halloween (1978), The Secret of NIMH (1982), and Hook (1991). His last film role was The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue (1998), in which he voiced Mr. Ages.

## Life and career

Vivian Arthur Rivers Malet was born on 24 September 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. 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 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.
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), Gunsmoke (S10E16’s “Run Sheep, Run” in 1964), Bewitched ("The Trial and Error of Aunt Clara"; originally aired 2 February 1967), Wonder Woman 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. Malet had a regular role on the short-lived 1983 television adaptation of the film Casablanca.

## Death

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

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1962 | Convicts 4 | Storekeeper | |
| 1964 | Mary Poppins | Mr. Dawes Jr. | |
| 1965 | King Rat | Blakely | |
| 1966 | Munster, Go Home! | Alfie | |
| 1966 | Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. | Umbrella Man | |
| 1966 | Penelope | Major Higgins | |
| 1967 | The Scorpio Letters | Hinton | |
| 1967 | The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin | Chinese Food Eater | Uncredited |
| 1967 | In the Heat of the Night | | |
| 1968 | The Helicopter Spies | White Hunter | |
| 1970 | The Great White Hope | Barrister | Uncredited |
| 1971 | Vanishing Point | Hitchhiker | |
| 1971 | Bedknobs and Broomsticks | Mr. Widdenfield | Uncredited |
| 1972 | The Culpepper Cattle Co. | Doctor | |
| 1973 | Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies | Brother Watson | |
| 1974 | Young Frankenstein | Village Elder | |
| 1976 | The Enforcer | Bystander | Uncredited |
| 1978 | Heaven Can Wait | Everett | |
| 1978 | Halloween | Graveyard Keeper | |
| 1979 | Disaster on the Coastliner | Southbound Conductor | Television film |
| 1981 | Savage Harvest | MacGruder | |
| 1982 | The Secret of NIMH | Mr. Ages | Voice |
| 1984 | Oh, God! You Devil | Houseman | |
| 1984 | City Heat | Doc Loomis | |
| 1985 | The Black Cauldron | King Eidilleg | Voice |
| 1989 | Worth Winning | Ticket Taker | |
| 1990 | Dick Tracy | Diner Patron | |
| 1991 | Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time | Wendel | |
| 1991 | The Runestone | Stoddard | |
| 1991 | Hook | Tootles | |
| 1992 | Toys | Owen Owens | |
| 1994 | Felidae | Jesaja | Voice; uncredited |
| 1995 | A Little Princess | Charles Randolph | |
| 1997 | Anastasia | Traveling Man, Major Domo | Voice |
| 1998 | The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue | Mr. Ages | Voice |

## Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1961 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Dr. Larson | Season 6 Episode 26: "Coming, Mama" |
| 1962 | Gunsmoke | Farnum | Season 7 Episode 34: "The Boys" |
| 1962 | The Rifleman | Jeremy Pennebroke | Season 4 Episode 18: "Sporting Chance" |
| 1962 | Dennis the Menace | Dr. Carl Cadwell / Dr. Cecil Cadwell | Season 3 Episode 29: "Wilson Goes to the Dentist" |
| 1962 | The Untouchables | Brother Adam | Season 3 Episode 26: "Pressure" |
| 1963 | The Untouchables | Mission Man | Season 4 Episode 25: "The Giant Killer" |
| 1963 | Dennis the Menace | Reverend Stone | Season 4 Episode 16: "Wilson's Little White Lie" (uncredited) |
| 1964 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Burke | Season 3 Episode 7: "The McGregor Affair" |
| 1965 | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Engineer | Season 4 Episode 27: "Never Bathe on Saturday" |
| 1965 | Rawhide | T. Reginald Wingate | Season 7 Episode 16: "A Time for Waiting" |
| 1965 | Gunsmoke | “Nester” Cox | Season 10 Episode 16: "Run, Sheep, Run" |
| 1966 | The Andy Griffith Show | Vagrant | Season 6 Episode 19: "Lost and Found" |
| 1966 | The Andy Griffith Show | Purvis | Season 6 Episode 29: "The Battle of Mayberry" |
| 1966 | The Wild Wild West | Doc Keyno | Season 1 Episode 16: "The Night of the Steel Assassin" |
| 1966 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Professor Kenton | Season 3 Episode 14: "The My Friend the Gorilla Affair" |
| 1967 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | White Hunter | Season 4 Episode 4: "The Prince of Darkness Affair: Part 1" |
| 1967 | Bewitched | Judge Bean | Season 3 Episode 21: "The Trial and Error of Aunt Clara" |
| 1967 | The Monkees | Curator | Season 2 Episode 5: "Art, for Monkees' Sake" |
| 1967 | The Wild Wild West | Doc Keyno | Season 3 Episode 9: "The Night of the Circus of Death" |
| 1968 | Bonanza | Tingle the Barber | Season 10 Episode 7: "Catch as Catch Can" |
| 1969 | The Wild Wild West | Professor Montague | Season 4 Episode 18: "The Night of the Janus" |
| 1969 | The Virginian | Night Clerk | Season 8 Episode 12: "Journey to Scathelock" |
| 1969 | I Dream of Jeannie | Uncle Vasmir | Season 5 Episode 10: "Uncle a Go-Go" |
| 1970 | Mission: Impossible | Undertaker | Season 5 Episode 8: "Decoy" |
| 1970 | Night Gallery | Ennis | Season 1 Episode 2: (segment) "The Little Black Bag" |
| 1971 | Night Gallery | Abel Joyce | Season 2 Episode 12: (segment) "Camera Obscura" |
| 1972 | Columbo | Fenwick | Season 2 Episode 4: "Dagger of the Mind" |
| 1973 | Gunsmoke | Oldtimer | Season 19 Episode 11: "The Hanging of Newly O'Brien" |
| 1973 | Hawaii Five-O | Artie Boland | Season 5 Episode 24: "Jury of One" |
| 1978 | Police Woman | Gardener | Season 4 Episode 21: "Flip of a Coin" |
| 1979 | Charlie's Angels | James Hannah | Season 3 Episode 15: "Disco Angels" |
| 1979 | Wonder Woman | Professor Zander | Season 3 Episode 18: "A Date with Doomsday" |
| 1981 | Dallas | Mr. Forest | Season 5 Episode 4: "Little Boy Lost" |
| 1982 | Dallas | Mr. Forest | Season 5 Episode 22: "Vengeance" |
| 1982 | Dallas | Forest | Season 5 Episode 24: "The Investigation" |
| 1982 | CHiPs | Junkman | Season 5 Episode 19: "Silent Partner" |
| 1983 | Casablanca | Carl | 5 episodes: (1) "Who Am I Killing?"; (2) "Master Builder's Woman"; (3) "Jenny"; (4) "The Cashier and the Belly Dancer"; (5) "Divorce Casablanca Style" |
| 1990 | Dallas | Ryan | Season 13 Episode 26: "Three, Three, Three: Part 1" |
| 1990 | Dallas | Ryan | Season 13 Episode 27: "Three, Three, Three: Part 2" |
| 1990 | Dallas | Ryan | Season 14 Episode 1: "April in Paris" |
| 1990 | Dallas | Ryan | Season 14 Episode 2: "Charade" |
| 1990 | Dallas | Ryan | Season 14 Episode 3: "One Last Kiss" |