Howard Vernon
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1908-07-15
Day of Death
1996-07-25 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]
Howard Vernon
Biography
Howard Vernon (15 July 1908 – 25 July 1996), born Mario Walter Lippert, was a German-Swiss stage and film actor who appeared in films by Jean-Pierre Melville, Sacha Guitry, Fritz Lang, Roger Vadim, Jean-Luc Godard and Jesús Franco.
Vernon was born Mario Lippert in Baden-Baden, Germany, to a Swiss father and a German mother. Originally a stage and radio actor, he played Nazi officers, gangsters and psychopaths in French and American films after World War II. In the 1960s, he became a favourite actor of Spanish film director Jesús Franco, starring in many low-budget horror and erotic films produced in Spain and France. He died in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 10 days after his 88th birthday.
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Known For
Acting
(1999)
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
as Cagliostro
(1996)
The Rock of Acapulco
as Le vieil homme
(1996)
The Complex of Toulon
as Charles Toulon
(1994)
Hey Stranger
as Old officer
(1993)
(1991)
Delicatessen
as Frog Man
(1990)
The Carpathian Mushroom
as Jeremy Fairfax
(1989)
Black Sin
as Manes
(1988)
Faceless
as Dr. Orloff
(1988)
Howl of the Devil
as Eric
(1988)
Hommage à Vernon
as Self (archive footage)
(1987)
Terminus
as Monsieur (voice)
(1987)
The Death of Empedocles
as Hermokrates
(1987)
(1985)
All Mixed Up
as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique
(1985)
Angel of Death
as Josef Mengele
(1985)
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
as Coronel Daniel J. Blimp
(1984)
Le fou du roi
as Abbot Guibourd
(1984)
The Sinister Doctor Orloff
as Dr. Orloff
(1983)
Revenge in the House of Usher
as Roderic Usher
(1983)
Ogroff
as Vampire
(1983)
Blood on My Shoes
as Albert von Klaus
(1982)
Deadline
as Doorman
(1982)
Far from Manhattan
as René Dimanche
(1981)
Zombie Lake
as The Mayor
(1981)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
as Dr. Lanyon
(1979)
From Hell to Victory
as SS Major Karl
(1979)
(1978)
Women in Cellblock 9
as Dr. Milton
(1977)
The Theatre of the Matters
as Hermann
(1976)
The Musician Killer
as Anton Varga
(1975)
Love and Death
as General Leveque
(1975)
The Perverse Countess
as Count Rabor Zaroff
(1975)
Seven Women for Satan
as Karl, Zaroff's servant
(1975)
The Garden That Tilts
as Paul
(1975)
(1975)
The Mark of Zorro
as Governor Hayes
(1975)
Don't Change Hands
as Jacques des Grieux
(1974)
Celestine
as Grandfather
(1974)
Lorna, the Exorcist
as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)
(1974)
Fifteen Year Old Captain
as Korda
(1974)
How to Seduce a Virgin
as Mathias
(1974)
Les Gloutonnes
as Cagliostro
(1973)
The Day of the Jackal
as Cabinet Member
(1973)
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
as Le docteur
(1973)
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
as Uncle Howard
(1973)
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
as Cagliostro
(1973)
Dolls for Sale
as Al Pereira
(1973)
The Other Side of the Mirror
as Ana's Father
(1973)
The Demons
as Lord Malcolm De Winter
(1973)
Lovers of Devil's Island
as Colonel Ford
(1972)
Virgin Report
as Anna's Father / The Inquisitor
(1972)
The French Sex Murders
as Professor Waldemar
(1972)
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
as Dracula
(1972)
Daughter of Dracula
as Count Karlstein / Dracula
(1972)
Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
as Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant
(1972)
Sex Charade
as General
(1971)
X312 - Flight to Hell
as Pedro
(1971)
Love Me Strangely
as Maître Wasserman, property administrator
(1971)
The Devil Came from Akasava
as Valet Humphrey
(1971)
She Killed in Ecstasy
as Prof. Jonathan Walker
(1970)
The Blood Rose
as Professeur Römer
(1970)
The Bloody Judge
as Jack Ketch
(1970)
Nightmares Come at Night
as Howard
(1970)
The Invisible Man's Love Life
as Professor Orloff
(1970)
(1969)
Marquis de Sade: Justine
as Clément
(1968)
Mayerling
as Prince of Montenuovo
(1968)
Succubus
as Admiral Kapp
(1968)
Castle of the Creeping Flesh
as Graf Saxon
(1967)
The Night of the Generals
as Murder Suspect (uncredited)
(1967)
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
as Yvan
(1967)
The Hotheads
as Mr. Gorsi, The Boss.
(1967)
The Dinosaur and the Baby
as Self
(1967)
The Orgies of Dr. Orloff
as Dam Gaillimh
(1966)
Triple Cross
as German Embassy Official
(1966)
Residence for Spies
as Radek (uncredited)
(1966)
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
as Dr. Pineau
(1966)
The Game Is Over
as Lawyer
(1966)
The Mad Dog
as Fred
(1966)
The Diabolical Dr. Z
as Dr. Vicas
(1965)
Alphaville
as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
(1965)
What's New Pussycat?
as Doctor
(1965)
Operation Double Cross
as Le professeur
(1965)
Taiwo Shango oder: Der zweite Tag nach dem Tod
as Dr. Brian
(1964)
The Train
as Dietrich
(1964)
Black Angel of the Mississippi
as Ray Terris
(1964)
(1963)
Un cas intéressant
as Pr. Schroeder
(1963)
Vice and Virtue
as S.S. General
(1963)
(1962)
The Awful Dr. Orlof
as Dr. Orloff
(1962)
The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
as Max von Klaus
(1962)
The Shadow of Zorro
as El General (credit only)
(1962)
Zorro the Avenger
as The General Clarence
(1961)
Léon Morin, Priest
as Colonel
(1961)
The Secret Ways
as Colonel Hidas
(1961)
(1961)
Première brigade criminelle
as Steven Hals
(1960)
Dossier AST-555
as Inspector Jackson
(1960)
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
as No. 12
(1960)
Rendezvous
as Howard
(1960)
(1959)
Atomic Agent
as William Dantoren
(1959)
Pensione Edelweiss
as Général Funck
(1959)
Heiße Ware
as Heinrich Strasser
(1958)
(1957)
Weekend
as Richard Greatham
(1957)
Until the Last One
as Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist
(1957)
The River of Three Junks
as Igor Kourguine
(1956)
La melodía misteriosa
as Inspector Revel
(1956)
Das Abschiedsgeschenk
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
(1956)
Bob le Flambeur
as McKimmie, the Sponsor
(1956)
Operation Thunder
as Roger Kervec
(1956)
Alert in the Canary Islands
as Maxime Bellac
(1955)
08/15 at Home
as CIC-Offizier Ted
(1955)
Der grüne Kakadu
as Henri
(1955)
El fugitivo de Amberes
as Bell Fermer
(1955)
Pas de souris dans le business
as Robert Leperque
(1955)
Gottes Utopia
as Paco Hernandes
(1954)
Phantom of the Big Tent
as Armand LaRue, König der Luft
(1954)
Royal Affairs in Versailles
as English buyer
(1953)
Lucrèce Borgia
as The chaplain
(1953)
Poison Ivy
as Rudy Saltierra
(1953)
Le Petit Jacques
as Daniel Mortal
(1953)
Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
as Rolande's friend
(1952)
(1952)
The Girl with the Whip
as Borgo
(1952)
(1951)
Adventures of Captain Fabian
as Emile
(1951)
Hotbed of Sin
as Charles
(1950)
The Elusive Pimpernel
as Comte de Tournai
(1950)
Secret Document: Vienna
as Colonel von Pennwitz
(1950)
Black Jack
as Schooner Captain
(1949)
The Silence of the Sea
as Werner von Ebrennac
(1949)
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
as Inspector (uncredited)
(1949)
The Inn of Sin
as Ducourt
(1949)
Du Guesclin
as Lancaster
(1948)
The Devil Who Limped
as Lord Palmerston
(1948)
(1947)
Sky Battalion
as German officer (uncredited)
(1947)
The Chips Are Down
as Le chef milicien
(1947)
The Royalists
as Captain Gérard
(1946)
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
as (uncredited)
(1946)
A Friend Will Come Tonight
as Robert Langlois, le muet
(1946)
Alert Nights
as English aviator
(1946)
Behind These Walls
as German officer (uncredited)
(1946)
Mr. Orchid
as German Lieutenant Fleischer
(1946)
Devil and the Angel
as Furet henchman
(1946)
(1945)
Angel and Sinner
as Prussian officer in Uville (uncredited)
Crew
(1974)
Lorna, the Exorcist
Still Photographer
(1974)
How to Seduce a Virgin
Still Photographer
(1974)
Les Gloutonnes
Still Photographer
(1974)
Fifteen Year Old Captain
Still Photographer
(1968)
Succubus
Still Photographer