Ferdy Mayne
Date of Birth: 11 Mar 1916
Country: Germany
Total Credits at Criticker: 42 (Actor)
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A young girl whose sister was murdered by werewolves helps an investigator track down a gang of the beasts through the U.S. and Europe. (imdb)
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Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to mutiny, takes over the ship, and kidnaps the daughter of the governor of Maracaibo. The question is, can he keep this pace up? (imdb)
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A professor and his apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
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Jim Wormold sells vacuum cleaners in Havana. His daughter Milly, 17, spends a lot of money, so he accepts a job with the Intelligence Service. As he has nothing to report, he invents facts, pretends to recruit agents and to discover secret constructions... Of course, one day all will become much harder... (imdb)
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Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia, a "shrewd merciless beauty" who seems effortlessly to collect apartments and Maserati sports cars while leaving a trail of broken hearts behind her. Juan approaches the challenge by pretending to her he is an emissary for a rich count. (imdb)
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The Countess is called away to tend a sick friend and imposes on the General to accept her daughter Marcilla as a houseguest. Some of the villagers begin dying, however, and the General's daughter Laura soon gets weak and pale, but Marcilla is there to comfort her... (imdb)
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A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. (imdb)
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The bigamist captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibralter and Spanish Morocco has wives of differing appeal and temperaments in each port. (imdb)
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Earl Ellinger leads a dissolute life in Munich's high-society, far away from his estates, where he ruinously exploits the forests to finance his expensive way of life. Only when he flees from his aggressive fiancée, baroness Elena, into the lonesome mountains, he learns about the consequences of his doings from the beautiful dairymaid Lore. (imdb)
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A horror film society steals the body of a recently deceased star and become victims of a clever and vengeful plot from beyond the grave. (Chas. Balun)
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'Pel' Pelham is a veteran carnival barker who's happily married and desperately wants a good education for his young son. With money borrowed from bookie Tony Lewis, he persuades Sapolio, a professional "starving man," to attempt to break his own world's record of 65 days without food. Sapolio and his wife throw a party in their flat but when a girl in an upstairs apartment is murdered, suspicion falls on Pel and Tony Lewis, the girl's former boyfriend. (imdb)
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Hopkins is Philip Calvert, a water-logged James Bond. Calvert plays a naval secret-service agent who is assigned to find out why millions of pounds of gold bullion are being stolen under the noses of the British government. He begins his investigations in the bleak Scottish Highlands. Posing as marine biologists, Calvert and his partner Hunslett find something fishy and hostile among the Scottish inhabitants... (allmovieguide)
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A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues. (imdb)
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God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane asylum with some very interesting treatment plans. Another involves a 'death club'. The final story shows us the adventures of a server of Satan. This is a strange movie. (imdb)
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Meak head clerk Kees Popinga realises at the same time as the police that owner De Koster has stripped his Dutch company clean because of his infatuation with Parisian girl Michelle. After a confrontation between the two men De Koster ends up dead and Popinga makes off to Paris with the remaining money. There he contacts Michelle, with the police in close pursuit.
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An American actress inherits a castle in Transylvania. What she doesn't know is that her ancestor, the Baroness Catali, was in actuality a vampire countess, and emerges from her tomb to ravage the nearby village and Catholic seminary. (imdb)
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Antoine Brisebard, a successful author, is victim of a blackmailer who threatens to reach it by revealing the past of his wife. Determined to get rid of Jo, the head of blackmail, he pretext of writing a piece police to collect from anyone who will listen the ingredients of the perfect crime. He is even thinking of hiding his body in the gazebo that his wife gave him to St.Antoine. Unfortunately when Jo picks up the money required, the plan of Brisebard to eliminate it doesn't go as planned. (Wikipedia)
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Bosquier (Louis De Funes) is the director of a private boarding school in this routine situation comedy. He and his wife (Claude Gesnac) try to run the institution with a tyrannical hand, but the tighter the grip, the more control he loses over the students and the school. Soon he is chasing his wayward son and the daughter of a wealthy British aristocrat when the two run away together. (allmovie.com)
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George Saunders is the middle-aged owner of a roadside garage and pub. Trouble is inevitable when his sexy young wife, Marilyn, gets involved with Tom, the new mechanic. (imdb)
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A woman is taken in by the gifts she receives from a wealthy baker, unaware of his motives or his marriage status. (TCM)
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In 1212, a Children's Crusade is launched after Jakob (John Fordyce) claims to have had a vision in which it is said that the innocence of children would be able to liberate Jerusalem. A monk (Lionel Stander), returning from Jerusalem, joins the crusade and hears the children's confessions, gradually realizing that most of them are taking part not for religious, but for more worldly reasons, like rejected love. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Cargo ship officer Gregor Stevens travels from America to London in order to find his brother, only to discover that he has been wrongly convicted of murder and is soon to be executed. In order to clear his brother's name, Gregor becomes acquainted with nightclub performer Yvonne Durante (Mary Castle) and her diamond-smuggling associates. (DVD cover)
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Crime drama about a man and his wife who become mixed up in a tussle over valuable Eastern manuscripts, but manage to prevent a serious international situation. (BFI)
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A hit and run victim is operated on by Dr Fenton, but the patient is later murdered and the good doctor is under suspicion.
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In a small town in Germany towards the end of the war: the story centers around two good-time girls who use some money found in an attic to make a trip to Vienna. (ftvdb.bfi.org.uk)
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The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder. (imdb)
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A Man Called Intrepid (1979) - TV Mini-Series
During World War II, a wealthy Canadian uses his own money to help the Allies form an espionage network. (imdb)
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Famous detective and his trusty side-kick Tinker are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid. (imdb)
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A London Soho nightclub is the focus for an undercover investigation into the murder of a small-time crook. (imdb)
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A spaceship from Earth lands on the planet Venus, and encounters a race of beings that the crew begins to suspect are descended from the lost city of Atlantis. (imdb)
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A mild-mannered British planning engineer is sent across the Atlantic by his firm to negotiate a deal for which he feels hugely out of his depth. He finds however, that his personality changes in synchronization with a clock. (Wikipedia)
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It's the roaring twenties in Berlin. The Tigress, a gorgeous, wild, and very independent street walker, falls for a handsome grifter. When one of her lovers gets jealous, she betrays him and has to skip town. The grifter reveals he has what it takes to move in upper class circles and suggests they flee to Carlsbad, a spa in Czechoslovakia.
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Sadat (1983) - TV Movie
The dramatization of the life of Egyptian leader Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, from his early years as a young officer fighting the British to his assassination in 1981.
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Cross-Roads (1955) - Short Film
Two years before he first donned The Count's cloak for Dracula, Christopher Lee had one of his earliest leading roles in this fascinating low budget short subject. Arguably Lee's first venture into Gothic territory on screen, it memorably features the camera - perhaps for the very first time - zooming in for a chilling close up of those unforgettably steely eyes. (The Movie Database)
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An airline pilot, falsely accused of wife-murder, sets out to find who really did it. (imdb)
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A fun frolic involving a fake secret weapon (accidentally created during a drinking bout), naval bureaucracy, political maneuvering and the hareem and palace of the exotic eastern country of Agraria. (imdb)
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Lovely live venue The Music Machine in Camden provides the glitzy glitter-ball backdrop for this entertaining North London disco dance contest drama. (imdb)
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Young Sigmund Freud discovers the ultimate answer to all his patient's problems - hypnosis. Hilarity ensues.
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When a Russian ballerina defects to Germany, Manston goes after the head of The Limbo Line in an effort to stop the group from kidnapping the defectors. Acting against the orders of his boss, Manston is faced with killing the communist leader of the movement in Germany or allowing the dancer to be turned over for interrogation and reprisals for her political beliefs. Matters are further complicated when Manston finds himself falling for the ballerina
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Band Leader Frank Martin is accused of murdering the shady owner of the club where he's performing. He is innocent of the crime, but his only alibi is Ruth Chapman, a sexy blonde singer who was with him at the time of the murder. When Ruth disappears, and cannot be found, Frank is tried, convicted and sentenced to death. As the time for his execution draws near, his fiancée Judy and friends search desperately for the missing woman.
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The complex plot begins with the passionate desire of a doctor to found a hospital for medical research, which is thwarted by the Nazi invasion, in which he loses his notes and all his money. In later years, this leads to him being tempted for money (in order to found the hospital) to murder a patient at the instigation of the man's much younger and faithless wife ('the Temptress'), Lady Clifford.
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