Martin Miller

Martin Miller was a Czech-Austrian character actor who started out on stage in Vienna from 1921 and worked in cabaret and theater across Austria and Czechoslovakia before moving to London in 1939. There he co-founded the Viennese Theatre Club of Paddington, an emigre cabaret and theater group, and won notice for his parodies of Adolf Hitler. His stage work included Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace and Mr. Paravicini in The Mousetrap, which he played over a thousand times. On screen from 1940, he specialized in eccentric doctors, scientists and professors, and appeared in The Adventures of Tartu (1943), The Gamma People (1956), Libel (1959), Exodus (1960), The V.I.P.s (1963) and The Pink Panther (1963). Larger parts included George II of Great Britain in Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) and he played Kublai Khan in Marco Polo, a Doctor Who serial. He also worked in television series such as The Avengers and The Prisoner.