Ferdy Mayne

Ferdy Mayne
Born
Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horckel

(1916-03-11)11 March 1916
Mainz, Germany
Died30 January 1998(1998-01-30) (aged 81)
Lordington, West Sussex, England
Alma materRADA
Old Vic School
OccupationActor
Years active1943–1996
Spouse
Deirdre de Payer
(m. 1955; div. 1972)
Children2, including Belinda Mayne

Ferdy Mayne or Ferdie Mayne (born Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horckel; 11 March 1916 – 30 January 1998) was a German-British stage and screen actor.[1] Born in Mainz, he emigrated to the United Kingdom in the early 1930s to escape the Nazi regime. He resided in the UK for the majority of his professional career. Working almost continuously throughout a 60-year-long career, Mayne was known as a versatile character actor, often playing suave villains and aristocratic eccentrics in films like The Fearless Vampire Killers, Where Eagles Dare, Barry Lyndon, and Benefit of the Doubt.

  1. ^ "Ferdy Mayne". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012.