Malcolm Bart

"STOP THAT ANIMAL!!! I SAID STOP THAT ANIMAL!!!"

- Bart telling a deaf man at a post office to catch Benji after he steals Mrs. Elliot's necklace Malcolm Bart is the main antagonist of Joe Camp's 1980 comedy film by 20th Century Fox ''Oh! Heavenly Dog''.

He was portrayed by the late Omar Sharif.

Role in the film
Bart is first seen at Benji's office, telling him that Mrs. Elliot is in trouble. Benji sets out to her apartment to investigate, but finds her corpse. Bart stabs Benji in the back and takes the dead woman's necklace. However, Benji was brought back to life as a dog to find out who killed Mrs. Elliot.

When Benji comes into Bart's office, Bart hides in his closet and takes the 15th page. Benji tries to find pictures of Bart's victims until Jackie Howard comes into his office.

Bart is later seen with Jackie. When Bart leaves, Jackie holds Benji and he tries to go after him. Benji makes Jackie drop her radio, causing her to let go of Benji. When he finds Bart, he grabs Benji, but an old lady hits Bart several times, causing him to let go of Benji.

When Benji continues to find Bart's pictures of his victims, Bart comes into his office and Benji hides under his desk. As Bart was about to burn his pictures of his victims, he decides to do it later and leave his office. When Higgins temporarily restores Benji into his human form, he tells Higgins to turn off the lights so he can go after Bart. He turns into his dog form when he leaves the window.

The next day, Benji once again tries to find Bart's pictures, but Bart catches Benji under his desk and hands him to Jackie.

Benji comes to the mail office to get some of Bart's evidence. He finds his envelope, but Bart nearly catches him. He bites Bart in the hand, causing him to let go of Benji. When he runs to Bart's office and opens the envelope, he finds a necklace. He then realizes that it was the dead woman's necklace and Bart took it off. Bart arrives at his office and Benji takes toe necklace to show her evidence that Bart killed Mrs. Elliot. Bart chases Benji through the city and Benji ends up in a dead end. Higgins then shows up and once again temporarily restore Benji into his human form. When Bart arrives, Benji tricks Bart into thinking that the dog ran up the building into the sky.

When Benji gives Jackie the necklace, Alistair recognizes it and tells Jackie about the necklace and Jackie is confused of what he is talking about and believes that he killed Mrs. Elliot until Bart exposes himself before a man tells the police after he was behind Bart. He tries to shoot Benji, but Jackie sacrifices herself and Bart gets arrested.