Ferdy Mayne

Ferdy Mayne
Born	Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horckel 11 March 1916 Mainz, Germany
Died	30 January 1998 (aged 81) Lordington, West Sussex, England
Cause of death	Parkinson's disease
Residence	United Kingdom United States
Alma mater	RADA Old Vic School
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1922–96
Spouse(s)	Deirdre de Payer (m. 1955; div. 1972)
Children	Belinda Mayne Fernanda Mayne (adopted)

Ferdy Mayne (11 March 1916 – 30 January 1998) was a German actor long resident of the United Kingdom.^[1][2]

Early life

He was born Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horckel in Mainz, Germany. His German father was the Judge of Mayence, while his half-English mother was a singing instructor.^[3]

Because his family was Jewish, Mayne was sent to Britain in 1932 to protect him from the Nazis. He stayed with his aunt, the photographer and sculptress Lee Hutchinson.^[3] His parents were detained in Buchenwald but, thanks to his mother's connections, were able to leave Germany for Britain.

At the start of the Second World War, Mayne operated as an informant for MI5. Significant clues to his secret service work were provided by Joan Miller in her posthumously published memoir One Girl's War (1986). Mayne had served as a witness at her marriage in 1945.

Career

Mayne appeared in 230 films and television programmes. In 1967, he achieved international recognition in his role as Count von Krolock in Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers.^[2]

In 1977, he appeared in "It Pays to Advertise", an episode of Are You Being Served?,^[4] in the role of "The Ten Pound Perfume".^[5]

Later, Mayne moved to the United States and played the semi-regular role of Albert Grand in the TV series Cagney and Lacey.^[6]

Personal life

In 1955, Mayne married Deirdre de Payer. Their daughter Belinda Mayne is also an actor. They also adopted a daughter, Fernanda, in 1965. The couple divorced in 1972.

In the 1990s, Mayne developed Parkinson's disease, from which he died on 30 January 1998 in London, aged 81.^[3]

Partial filmography

• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) as Prussian Student (uncredited)
• Warn That Man (1943) as German Radio Operator (uncredited)
• Old Mother Riley Overseas (1943)
• English Without Tears (1944) (uncredited)
• Meet Sexton Blake (1945) as Slant-Eyes
• Waltz Time (1945) as Max
• The Echo Murders (1945) as Dacier
• One Night with You (1948) as First Detective
• Broken Journey (1948) as Pelotti
• Vote for Huggett (1949) as Waiter
• The Temptress (1949) as Julian
• The Huggetts Abroad (1949) as Gendarme (uncredited)
• Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora (1949) as Antonio
• Prelude to Fame (1950) as Carlo Ferugia
• Cairo Road (1950) as Doctor in Port Said
• Hotel Sahara (1951) as Yusef
• Encore (1951) as Headwaiter (segment "Gigolo and Gigolette")
• Venetian Bird (1951) as Tio
• Made in Heaven (1952) as István
• The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952) as Louis
• The Broken Horseshoe (1953) as Charles Constance
• Three Steps to the Gallows (1953) as Mario Satargo
• Desperate Moment (1953) as Detective Laurence
• The Captain's Paradise (1953) as The Sheikh
• The Blue Parrot (1953) as Stevens
• You Know What Sailors Are (1954) as Stanislaus Voritz of Smorznigov
• Malaga (1954) as Mustapha
• Twist of Fate (1954) as Police Chief
• Betrayed (1954) as Luftwaffe Officer (uncredited)
• Third Party Risk (1954) as Maxwell Carey
• The Divided Heart (1954) as Dr. Muller
• The Glass Cage (1955) as Bertie
• Marilyn (1955) as Nicky Everton
• Value for Money (1955) as Waiter
• Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) as M. Dufond
• Storm Over the Nile (1955) as Dr. Harraz
• The Narrowing Circle (1956) as Bill Strayte
• The Baby and the Battleship (1956) as Interpreter
• Find the Lady (1956) as Tony Del Roma
• You Pay Your Money (1957) as Delal
• Seven Waves Away (1957) as Solly Daniels
• The Big Chance (1957) as Dimitri Aperghis
• Three Sundays to Live (1957) as Davis
• The End of the Line (1957) as Charles Edwards
• Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957) as Italian Police Inspector
• The Safecracker (1958) as Greek Ship Owner
• A Woman of Mystery (1958) as Andre
• The Big Money (1958) as Furrier
• Next to No Time (1958) as Mario
• Deadly Record (1959) as Ramon Casadas
• Third Man on the Mountain (1959) as Andreas Krickel
• Ben-Hur (1959) as Captain of Rescue Ship (uncredited)
• Tommy the Toreador (1959) as Lopez
• Our Man in Havana (1959) as Professor Sanchez
• The Spider's Web (1960) as Oliver
• Crossroads to Crime (1960) as Miles
• The Green Helmet (1961) as Rossano
• Highway to Battle (1961) as Ziegler
• Three Spare Wives (1962) as Fazim Bey
• Masters of Venus (1962) as Votan
• Freud: The Secret Passion (1962) (uncredited)
• The Password Is Courage (1962) as 1st German Officer at French Farm
• Come Fly with Me (1963) as Vienna Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
• Der Schwur des Soldaten Pooley (1963) as Intelligence officer
• Shadow of Treason (1963) as Mario
• The Counterfeit Constable (1964) as José, l'agent de Diana Dors
• Operation Crossbow (1965) as German Officer
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) as French Official (uncredited)
• Promise Her Anything (1965) as Vittorio Fettucini
• The Bobo (1967) as Silvestre Flores
• The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) as Count von Krolock / Narrator
• Les grandes vacances (1967) as MacFarrell
• Gates to Paradise (1968) as Count Ludovic de Vendôme
• Where Eagles Dare (1968) as General Julius Rosemeyer
• The Limbo Line (1968) as Sutcliffe
• The Best House in London (1969) (uncredited)
• The Magic Christian (1969) as Edouard
• The Adventurers (1970) as Sergei's Father
• The Walking Stick (1970) as Douglas Dainton
• Vertige pour un tueur (1970) (uncredited)
• The Vampire Lovers (1970) as Doctor
• When Eight Bells Toll (1971) as Lavorski
• Gebissen wird nur nachts or The Vampire Happening (1971) as Count Dracula
• Von Richthofen and Brown (1971) as Richthofen's father
• The Blonde in the Blue Movie (1971) as Professor Grutekoor
• Jo (1971) as Mister Grunder
• Eagle in a Cage (1972) as Count Bertrand
• Au Pair Girls (1972) as Sheik El Abab
• Innocent Bystanders (1972) as Marcus Kaplan
• Il tema di Marco (1972)
• Trip to Vienna (1973) as Mariu Moltenau
• Die Ameisen kommen (1974) as Michel
• Bis zur bitteren Neige (1975) as Wallace
• Barry Lyndon (1975) as Colonel Bulow
• Silence in the Forest (1976) as Baron Sternfeld
• The Eagle Has Landed (1976) as Radl's Doctor (uncredited)
• Fedora (1978) as First Director
• Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) as Dr. Paul Laprone
• The Pirate (1978 TV movie) as Jabir
• A Man Called Intrepid (1979 TV movie) as Alexander Korda
• Mihail, cîine de circ (1979) as Dr. Emory
• The Music Machine (1979) as Basil Silverman
• Hawk the Slayer (1980) as Old Man, Father of Hawk and Voltan
• The Formula (1980) as Professor Siebold
• Longshot (1981) as Ralph Zipper
• Frightmare (1983) as Conrad Radzoff
• The Black Stallion Returns (1983) as Abu Ben Ishak
• Yellowbeard (1983) as Mr. Beamish
• Conan the Destroyer (1984) as The Leader
• The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984) as Herr Herrmann
• Night Train to Terror (1985) as God (segment "The Night Train")
• Hot Chili (1985) as Mr. Houston
• Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985) as Erle
• Pirates (1986) as Captain Linares
• Pehavý Max a strasidlá (1987) as Drakula
• The Choice (1988)
• Magdalene (1988) as Archbishop
• In the Shadow of the Sandcastle (1990)
• My Lovely Monster (1991) as Cowboy / Vampire
• Knight Moves (1992) as Jeremy Edmonds
• The Tigress (1992) as The Austrian Count
• Benefit of the Doubt (1993) as Mueller
• Warlock: The Armageddon (1993) as One-Eyed Man
• The Killers Within (1995) as General Karl von Weber (Last appearance)

References

1. "Ferdy Mayne". BFI.
2. Hal Erickson. "Ferdinand "Ferdy" Mayne - Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos - AllMovie". AllMovie.
3. "Obituary: Ferdy Mayne". The Independent.
4. TV.com: Are You Being Served? "It Pays To Advertise"
5. Britannia.org: Are You Being Served? Episode Details - "It Pays To Advertise"
6. "Ferdy Mayne". TV.com. CBS Interactive.

External links

• Ferdy Mayne at the Internet Movie Database