Michael maitland biography

By DAN HICKEY
(with Marie Maginity)

He was born Michael Walker, son of Scott Walker, TV and movie bad guy, featured in HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER, THE MUPPET MOVIE and other light classics.

His mom, a former Broadway dancer and daughter of theatre critic Ward Morehouse, picked the stage name Michael Maitland from Sir Harry Maitland, an actor whom she admired.

I met Michael in college when he and I were two of 32 students accepted into the Acting Program at the State University of New York at Purchase in the fall of 1977.

"So, Michael, have you done much acting?"

 "Well, lately not so much, but, I did some stuff when I was a kid."

Maitland as leader of the Leviathans on DARK SHADOWS.

At which point he just casually rambled off a list of professional credits.

Michael had played Hal Linden’s son in THE ROTHSCHILDS, and portrayed Patrick Dennis (not Dennis Patrick) in the original cast of MAME with Angela Lansbury. Oh, and some television work for a