Eric Maturin

Maturin was born in Nainital, India in 1883,[1] the oldest of three sons born to Edith Emily (née Money; 1863–1945) and Colonel Frederick Henry Maturin (1848–1936) of the East Surrey Regiment, who married on 1 August 1882 at St Andrew's church in Darjeeling; the couple divorced in 1911.

[3] Maturin served in Mesopotamia for eleven months but he was invalided back to the UK in August 1917 suffering from neurasthenia.

At a medical board in Norwich in November 1917, he was passed as fit for anti-aircraft defence duty but his condition returned and he was sent to a hospital in Birmingham in February 1918 for treatment.

By June 1918, he was listed as unfit for further service and relinquished his commission, though retaining the honorary rank of lieutenant and permission to wear his uniform on occasions that necessitated it.

[11] His film roles included Captain Arthur Mason in Wisp o' the Woods (1919), Adrian Redwood in The Naked Man (1923), Major Maurewarde in His House in Order (1928), Frank Sutton in The Squeaker (1930), Hector Braydon in Beyond the Cities (1930), Fenton in The Girl in the Night (1931), Count Fournal in The Face at the Window (1932), James Kelver in The Flaw (1933), The Director in Love, Life and Laughter (1934), Tim Gierson Youthful Folly (1934), Smith in Sanders of the River (1935), Robert Downing in City of Beautiful Nonsense (1935), Nevern in The Price of a Song (1935), Captain Mellock in Bees on the Boat-Deck (1939), The Almost Perfect murder (1939), Passport Officer in Contraband (1940), Older Man in The Foreman Went to France (1942), Colonel Goodhead in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Geoffrey's Father in A Canterbury Tale (1944), Group Capt.