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Actor: Ferdy Mayne

Ferdy Mayne played Count von Krolock in The Fearless Vampire Killers, a courteous and genuinely menacing vampire in a film that is otherwise broad comedy. He was German-born, fled the Nazis as a teenager, and worked in British film and television for five decades in a great many small roles.

The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) film posterAlfie Bass

The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)

Roman Polanski's affectionate Hammer parody is more gorgeous gothic fairy tale than laugh-out-loud comedy. The Fearless Vampire Killers earns its 6.5 as a beautiful, uneven oddity, a horror comedy that is more interested in atmosphere than in jokes and lands…

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