[3][page needed] He emigrated to the United States in the 1950s, changed his forename to Arthur, began acting onstage, and won two Drama Desk Awards in 1957.

He played undertaker Ted Ulam in Norman Jewison's 1967 film In the Heat of the Night, and Joe Fenwick in a 1972 episode of Columbo, "Dagger of the Mind".

[4] His appearances on television included episodes of The Donna Reed Show, The Rifleman, Adventures in Paradise, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ("The McGregor Affair"; originally aired 23 November 1964), Gunsmoke (S10E16’s “Run Sheep, Run” in 1964), Bewitched ("The Trial and Error of Aunt Clara"; originally aired 2 February 1967), Wonder Woman and Dallas.

In 1965 he appeared as murder victim Ralph Day in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Golden Venom".

In 1969 Malet appeared as the night clerk on the TV series The Virginian in the episode titled "Journey to Scathelock".