Remembering Ferdy Mayne (1916-98), the great German film / television / stage actor, born Ferdinand Philip Mayer-Horckel in Mainz #OnThisDay. He had over two hundred screen credits across six decades, memorably as vampire lord Count von Krolock in Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), killed by Ingrid Pitt in Hammer's The Vampire Lovers (1970), as the ageing horror film star in Frightmare (1983) and God in Night Train to Terror (1985).

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