- He was the first chairman of the Screen Writers' Association, the predecessor of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, in 1937.
- Stubby, meek-looking British character actor/writer with small, puckered mouth and hook nose in scores of films, some of which he wrote, usually appearing in small, unobtrusive parts.
- He made five films with Christopher Lee: One Night with You (1948), Saraband (1948), Private's Progress (1956), Horror of Dracula (1958) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959).
- On the advisory council of the Masses Stage and Film Guild established by the Independent Labour Party in 1929 to bring plays and films of an international character to working-class audiences.
- A memorial service celebrating his life was held at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London on 16th April 1969 with readings by Sybil Thorndike and Laurence Olivier.
- Cousin of poet and novelist Lucy Beatrice Malleson, who wrote under the pseudonyms Anthony Gilbert, Lucy Egerton, Sylvia Denys Hooke, J. Kilmeny Keith, and Anne Meredith.
- Providing over-the-top comic relief to otherwise mystery/horror films by Hammer, including the eccentric doctor in The Brides of Dracula and a drunken vicar in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
- He was originally cast as Dr. Matthew Roney in Quatermass and the Pit (1958) but the role eventually went to Cec Linder.
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