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 Miles Malleson was a prolific screenwriter during the '30s, in particular associated with historical subjects such as Nell Gwyn (d. Herbert Wilcox, 1934), Tudor Rose (d. Robert Stevenson, 1936) and the hugely successful Victoria the Great (d. Wilcox, 1937), all of which he also appeared in. He was equally prolific as an actor. While his chinless features made him ideal casting as a bumbling or pompous fool, his intelligence and energy enabled him to endow these roles with genuine wit and vim. He is the theatre manager in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), the comic relief in several Hammer horrors, and the gentleman attempting to purchase pornographic 'views' in Peeping Tom (d. Michael Powell, 1960). He is also the hangman in Kind Hearts and Coronets (d. Robert Hamer, 1949) who contemplates retirement because, after hanging a duke with a silken rope, he could "never again be content with hemp". Peter Hutchings, Encyclopedia of British Film
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