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name: "Richard Marner"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 March 1921"
died: "18 March 2004"
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average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:15:08.269978+00:00"
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# Richard Marner

Actor. Born 27 March 1921 in Petrograd, Russia (now St. Petersburg, Russia). Died 18 March 2004.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 March 1921, Petrograd, Russia (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
- **Died:** 18 March 2004
- **Active:** 1952–1977
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3292613, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0549424/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6612

## Biography

Richard Marner (born Alexander Pavlovich Molchanoff) was a British actor. Born in Petrograd in 1921, he moved to Britain as a child with his family and was educated at Monmouth School in Wales. After serving in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, he was invalided out, adopted the stage name Richard Marner and began his acting career, with an early stage success as Dracula.

He appeared in numerous films, frequently cast in military roles, including as Second Officer of Shona in *The African Queen* (1952) and in *Ice Cold in Alex* (1958), *The Spy Who Came in from the Cold* (1965) and *The Dirty Dozen* (1967). On television he played Marais in *Secret Army* (1977) and was best known for portraying Colonel Kurt von Strohm in the sitcom *'Allo 'Allo!* (1984–1992), appearing in all nine series.

Marner died in Perth, Scotland, in 2004.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com, independent.co.uk.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The African Queen* (1952), Fi1m 84, as Second Officer of Shona — [page](https://film.one/film/the-african-queen.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Secret Army* (1977), Actor

## Also known for

- *The Sum of All Fears* (2002), President Zorkin
- *The Man Who Knew Too Much* (1956), Prime Minister's Aide (uncredited)
- *The Dirty Dozen* (1967), German Sentry at Chateau (uncredited)
- *The Boys from Brazil* (1978), Doring
- *The Spy Who Came In from the Cold* (1965), Vopo Captain
- *'Allo 'Allo!* (1984), Colonel Kurt von Strohm
- *Children of the Damned* (1964), (uncredited)
- *Ice Cold in Alex* (1958), German Guard

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