Michael Andreas Mellinger (30 May 1929 – 17 March 2004) was a German actor in film, television, theatre and radio.
[3] He was sent to boarding school in England, and then qualified at North London Polytechnic as a radio engineer.
As recorded in his obituary in The Stage: "He made his skills available to his adopted country by joining the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Ironically, Mellinger, together with many German Jewish refugees who had fled Hitler, was classified as an enemy alien.
"[3] He subsequently trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama and in the 1950s was a member of the singing group The Harmonics.