Edward Ernest Malin (23 October 1894 in Stoke Newington, London – 1 March 1977 in Ealing, London) was an English actor.[1]
He was the youngest of seven children of John Malin (1850–1921), a purse maker in a fancy leather works,[2] and Martha née Hackworthy (1855–1905). In 1911 at age 16, he was working as a tracer in a boiler works.[3] During World War I, he served in the Royal Navy and became a Freemason in the Antioch Lodge No. 3271 in February 1918.[4]
Malin mostly played in small, often uncredited roles in both film and TV, including as a dining saloon steward in the 1958 film A Night to Remember, as well as a waiter in the seminal 1964 film A Hard Day's Night, starring The Beatles.[5] He achieved most of his fame as the mute and geriatric character of Walter Tattersall in the sitcom Nearest and Dearest from 1969 to 1973.[6]
Malin died on 1 March 1977, aged 82 at the King Edward Memorial hospital in Ealing, London.[7] He had been resident at the actors' retirement home of Denville Hall, Northwood, Middlesex, for several years.
