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)
The Howl of the Devil
as Eric
(1988)
Hommage à Vernon
as Self (archive footage)
(1987)
Terminus
as Monsieur (voice)
(1987)
(1987)
The Death of Empedocles
as Hermokrates
(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)
The Sinister Doctor Orloff
as Dr. Orloff
(1984)
Le fou du roi
as Abbot Guibourd
(1983)
Revenge in the House of Usher
as Roderic Usher
(1983)
Blood on My Shoes
as Albert von Klaus
(1983)
Ogroff
as Vampire
(1982)
Deadline
as Doorman
(1982)
Far from Manhattan
as René Dimanche
(1981)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
as Dr. Lanyon
(1981)
Zombie Lake
as The Mayor
(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)
The Garden That Tilts
as Paul
(1975)
Seven Women for Satan
as Karl, Zaroff's servant
(1975)
(1975)
The Mark of Zorro
as Governor Hayes
(1975)
Don't Change Hands
as Jacques des Grieux
(1974)
Celestine
as Grandfather
(1974)
The Greedy Ones
as Cagliostro
(1974)
How to Seduce a Virgin
as Mathias
(1974)
Fifteen Year Old Captain
as Korda
(1974)
Lorna, the Exorcist
as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)
(1973)
The Day of the Jackal
as Cabinet Member
(1973)
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
as Le docteur
(1973)
The Demons
as Lord Malcolm De Winter
(1973)
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
as Cagliostro
(1973)
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
as Uncle Howard
(1973)
Dolls for Sale
as Al Pereira
(1973)
The Other Side of the Mirror
as Ana's Father
(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)
The Devil Came from Akasava
as Valet Humphrey
(1971)
She Killed in Ecstasy
as Prof. Jonathan Walker
(1971)
Love Me Strangely
as Maître Wasserman, property administrator
(1970)
The Invisible Man's Love Life
as Professor Orloff
(1970)
The Blood Rose
as Professeur Römer
(1970)
The Bloody Judge
as Jack Ketch
(1970)
Nightmares Come at Night
as Howard
(1970)
(1969)
Marquis de Sade: Justine
as Clément
(1968)
Mayerling
as Prince of Montenuovo
(1968)
Castle of the Creeping Flesh
as Graf Saxon
(1968)
Succubus
as Admiral Kapp
(1967)
The Night of the Generals
as Murder Suspect (uncredited)
(1967)
The Hotheads
as Mr. Gorsi, The Boss.
(1967)
The Orgies of Dr. Orloff
as Dam Gaillimh
(1967)
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
as Yvan
(1967)
The Dinosaur and the Baby
as Self
(1966)
The Game Is Over
as Lawyer
(1966)
Triple Cross
as German Embassy Official
(1966)
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
as Dr. Pineau
(1966)
The Diabolical Dr. Z
as Dr. Vicas
(1966)
Residence for Spies
as Radek (uncredited)
(1966)
The Mad Dog
as Fred
(1965)
Alphaville
as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
(1965)
Operation Double Cross
as The 'professor'
(1965)
What's New Pussycat?
as Doctor
(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)
Zorro the Avenger
as The General Clarence
(1962)
The Shadow of Zorro
as El General (credit only)
(1962)
The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
as Max von Klaus
(1962)
The Awful Dr. Orlof
as Dr. Orloff
(1961)
The Secret Ways
as Colonel Hidas
(1961)
Léon Morin, Priest
as Colonel
(1961)
Première brigade criminelle
as Steven Hals
(1961)
(1960)
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
as No. 12
(1960)
Dossier AST-555
as Inspector Jackson
(1960)
(1960)
Description of a Struggle
as Narrator (German version)
(1960)
Rendezvous
as Howard
(1959)
Pensione Edelweiss
as Général Funck
(1959)
Heiße Ware
as Heinrich Strasser
(1959)
Atomic Agent
as William Dantoren
(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)
Operation Thunder
as Roger Kervec
(1956)
Bob le Flambeur
as McKimmie, the Sponsor
(1956)
Das Abschiedsgeschenk
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
(1956)
The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent
as Inspector Revel
(1956)
Alert in the Canary Islands
as Maxime Bellac
(1955)
08/15 at Home
as CIC-Offizier Ted
(1955)
El fugitivo de Amberes
as Bell Fermer
(1955)
Der grüne Kakadu
as Henri
(1955)
Gottes Utopia
as Paco Hernandes
(1955)
Pas de souris dans le business
as Robert Leperque
(1954)
Royal Affairs in Versailles
as English buyer
(1954)
Phantom of the Big Tent
as Armand LaRue, König der Luft
(1953)
Lucrèce Borgia
as The chaplain
(1953)
Poison Ivy
as Rudy Saltierra
(1953)
Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
as Rolande's friend
(1953)
Le Petit Jacques
as Daniel Mortal
(1952)
(1952)
The Girl with the Whip
as Borgo
(1952)
(1951)
Hotbed of Sin
as Charles
(1951)
Adventures of Captain Fabian
as Emile
(1950)
The Elusive Pimpernel
as Comte de Tournai
(1950)
Black Jack
as Schooner Captain
(1950)
Secret Document: Vienna
as Colonel von Pennwitz
(1949)
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
as Inspector (uncredited)
(1949)
The Silence of the Sea
as Werner von Ebrennac
(1949)
Du Guesclin
as Lancaster
(1949)
The Inn of Sin
as Ducourt
(1948)
(1948)
The Devil Who Limped
as Lord Palmerston
(1947)
Sky Battalion
as German officer (uncredited)
(1947)
The Royalists
as Captain Gérard
(1947)
The Chips Are Down
as Le chef milicien
(1946)
Behind These Walls
as German officer (uncredited)
(1946)
Alert Nights
as English aviator
(1946)
Mr. Orchid
as German Lieutenant Fleischer
(1946)
(1946)
A Friend Will Come Tonight
as Robert Langlois, le muet
(1946)
Devil and the Angel
as Furet henchman
(1946)
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
as (uncredited)
(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)
The Greedy Ones
Still Photographer
(1974)
Fifteen Year Old Captain
Still Photographer
(1968)
Succubus
Still Photographer