Top 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsMost Popular Video GamesMost Popular Music VideosMost Popular Podcasts
    Release CalendarBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV NewsIndia TV Spotlight
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsBest Picture WinnersBest Picture WinnersSundance Film FestivalIndependent Spirit AwardsBlack History MonthSXSWSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • All
  • Titles
  • TV Episodes
  • Celebs
  • Companies
  • Keywords
  • Advanced Search
Watchlist
Sign In
Sign In
New Customer? Create account
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
  • Biography
  • Awards
  • Trivia
IMDbPro

Ferdy Mayne(1916-1998)

  • Actor
IMDbProStarmeter
See rank
Ferdy Mayne in The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
Monsters: Cellmates
Play trailer1:59
Cellmates (1990)
3 Videos
20 Photos
His father was the Judge of Mayence (Mainz) and his mother, who was half-English, was a singing teacher. Since the family was Jewish, the teenage Ferdinand was sent to England to stay with his aunt Lee Hutchinson, a noted photographer and sculptress. His parents were briefly interned in Buchenwald, but his mother's English connections enabled them also to get to England before war broke out.
BornMarch 11, 1916
DiedJanuary 30, 1998(81)
BornMarch 11, 1916
DiedJanuary 30, 1998(81)
IMDbProStarmeter
See rank

Photos20

Ferdy Mayne in Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)
Ferdy Mayne in The Optimist (1983)
Ferdy Mayne and Gavin Reed in The Optimist (1983)
Ferdy Mayne in Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
Herbert Lom and Ferdy Mayne in Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
Claude Rains and Ferdy Mayne in The Paris Express (1952)
Claude Rains, Ferdy Mayne, and Märta Torén in The Paris Express (1952)
Ferdy Mayne in Frightmare (1983)
Sandra Dorne and Ferdy Mayne in Roadhouse Girl (1953)
Florence Blot and Ferdy Mayne in Jo (1971)
Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, and Ferdy Mayne in Ben-Hur (1959)
Jack Lambert, Ferdy Mayne, and Louis Raynor in The Saint (1962)

Known for

Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, and Mary Ure in Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Where Eagles Dare
7.6
  • Rosemeyer
  • 1968
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
The Fearless Vampire Killers
7.1
  • Count von Krolock
  • Narrator
  • 1967
Conan the Destroyer (1984)
Conan the Destroyer
5.9
  • The Leader(as Ferdinand Mayne)
  • 1984
Pirates (1986)
Pirates
6.0
  • Captain Linares
  • 1986

Credits

Edit
IMDbPro

Actor

  • In the Shadow of the Sandcastle
  • Robert Carradine, Meg Foster, Mike Farrell, and John Saxon in The Killers Within (1995)
    The Killers Within
  • Benefit of the Doubt (1993)
    Benefit of the Doubt
  • Julian Sands in Warlock: The Armageddon (1993)
    Warlock: The Armageddon
    • (as Ferdinand Mayne)
  • Die Spur führt ins Verderben
  • Die Tigerin (1992)
    Die Tigerin
    • (as Ferdinand Mayne)
  • Christopher Lambert in Knight Moves (1992)
    Knight Moves
    • (as Ferdinand Mayne)
  • Inge Meysel in Mrs. Harris (1982)
    Mrs. Harris
  • The Hit Man (1991)
    The Hit Man
  • My Lovely Monster
  • River of Diamonds (1990)
    River of Diamonds
    • (as Ferdinand Mayne)
  • Monsters (1988)
    Monsters
    • (as Ferdinand Mayne)
  • Der vierte Mann
  • Ich will leben (1990)
    Ich will leben
  • Nastassja Kinski in Magdalene (1989)
    Magdalene

Videos3

Trailer
Trailer 1:26
Trailer
The Vampire Lovers
Trailer 2:15
The Vampire Lovers
Monsters: Cellmates
Trailer 1:59
Monsters: Cellmates

Personal details

Edit
    • March 11, 1916
    • Mainz, Germany
    • January 30, 1998
    • London, England, UK(Parkinson's disease)
    • Deirdre de Peyer1950 - 1976 (divorced, 2 children)
    • Belinda Mayne
  • Other works
    Watch on the Rhine (1943 play by Lillian Hellman, Aldwych Theatre in London, as Kurt Muller)
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Pictorial
    • 2 Magazine Cover Photos

Did you know

Edit
  • Trivia
    Lean, sardonic-looking German-born character actor, who lent a silky, urbane quality to numerous menacing roles in British films of the 1950's, 60's and 70's. Of Jewish background, he left Germany for England in 1932 to stay with his sculptress aunt. After training for acting at RADA and the Old Vic school, he first appeared on stage as the White Knight in "Alice Through the Looking Glass" with the West Croydon Repertory Company. He became a much sought-after radio actor and his voice was also used in wartime propaganda broadcasts. Among his numerous roles on screen, including a fair share of Nazi officers, he is best remembered as Count von Krolock in Roman Polanski's Dracula parody The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967). He also played 'the Count' in the German horror comedy The Vampire Happening (1971).

Related news

Contribute to this page

Suggest an edit or add missing content
  • Learn more about contributing
Edit page

More to explore

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
Get the IMDb App
  • Get the IMDb App
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • IMDb Developer
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2023 by IMDb.com, Inc.