Howard Vernon

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-07-15 (88 years old)

Deathday

1996-07-25

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-Moul...

Acting

1991

Delicatessen

as Frog Man

1964

The Train

as Dietrich

1965

Operation Double Cross

as Le professeur

1971

1981

Zombie Lake

as The Mayor

1983

1985

Angel of Death

as Josef Mengele

1956

Bob le Flambeur

as McKimmie, the Sponsor

1987

Terminus

as Monsieur (voice)

1966

1970

1999

1968

Succubus

as Admiral Kapp

1971

She Killed in Ecstasy

as Prof. Jonathan Walker

1988

Faceless

as Dr. Orloff

1949

The Silence of the Sea

as Werner von Ebrennac

1974

Les Gloutonnes

as Cagliostro

1970

The Bloody Judge

as Jack Ketch

1961

The Secret Ways

as Colonel Hidas

1967

The Night of the Generals

as Murder Suspect (uncredited)

1982

Far from Manhattan

as René Dimanche

1976

The Musician Killer

as Anton Varga

1972

The French Sex Murders

as Professor Waldemar

1978

1972

Virgin Report

as Anna's Father / The Inquisitor

1962

1966

1946

Behind These Walls

as German officer (uncredited)

1945

Angel and Sinner

as Prussian officer in Uville (uncredited)

1946

1946

Alert Nights

as English aviator

1946

Mr. Orchid

as German Lieutenant Fleischer

1946

Devil and the Angel

as Furet henchman

1947

Sky Battalion

as German officer (uncredited)

1947

The Royalists

as Captain Gérard

1948

The Devil Who Limped

as Lord Palmerston

1973

The Demons

as Lord Malcolm De Winter

1949

The Inn of Sin

as Ducourt

1949

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

as Inspector (uncredited)

1951

Hotbed of Sin

as Charles

1959

Pensione Edelweiss

as Général Funck

1983

Ogroff

as Vampire

1975

The Perverse Countess

as Count Rabor Zaroff

1953

Poison Ivy

as Rudy Saltierra

1988

Hommage à Vernon

as Self (archive footage)

1973

1974

Celestine

as Grandfather

1959

Atomic Agent

as William Dantoren

1972

Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves

as Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant

1996

The Complex of Toulon

as Charles Toulon

1975

The Mark of Zorro

as Governor Hayes

1946

A Friend Will Come Tonight

as Robert Langlois, le muet

1985

All Mixed Up

as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique

1975

Love and Death

as General Leveque

1967

1960

Dossier AST-555

as Inspector Jackson

1989

Black Sin

as Manes

1972

Sex Charade

as General

1973

1975

Don't Change Hands

as Jacques des Grieux

1954

1975

Seven Women for Satan

as Karl, Zaroff's servant

1957

The River of Three Junks

as Igor Kourguine

1979

From Hell to Victory

as SS Major Karl

1973

Dolls for Sale

as Al Pereira

1983

Blood on My Shoes

as Albert von Klaus

1994

Hey Stranger

as Old officer

1953

Mr. Scrupule, Gangster

as Rolande's friend

1953

Le Petit Jacques

as Daniel Mortal

1955

1956

1971

Love Me Strangely

as Maître Wasserman - l'administrateur de biens

1965

Alphaville

as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)

1963

Un cas intéressant

as Pr. Schroeder

1970

The Blood Rose

as Professeur Römer

1985

Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included

as Coronel Daniel J. Blimp

1974

Lorna, the Exorcist

as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)

1962

Zorro the Avenger

as The General Clarence

1990

The Carpathian Mushroom

as Jeremy Fairfax

1966

1959

Heiße Ware

as Heinrich Strasser

1963

Vice and Virtue

as S.S. General

1987

1955

08/15 at Home

as CIC-Offizier Ted

1956

Das Abschiedsgeschenk

as Andrew Crocker-Harris

1957

Weekend

as Richard Greatham

1949

Du Guesclin

as Lancaster

1955

1950

Secret Document: Vienna

as Colonel von Pennwitz

1955

Gottes Utopia

as Paco Hernandes

1961

1956

La melodía misteriosa

as Inspector Revel

1953

Lucrèce Borgia

as The chaplain

1960

Rendezvous

as Howard

1955

1967

The Hotheads

as Mr. Gorsi, The Boss.

1957

Until the Last One

as Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist

1947

The Chips Are Down

as Le chef milicien

1968

Mayerling

as Prince of Montenuovo

1956

Operation Thunder

as Roger Kervec

1973

The Day of the Jackal

as Cabinet Member

1972

Daughter of Dracula

as Count Karlstein / Dracula

1962

The Awful Dr. Orlof

as Dr. Orloff

1984

Le fou du roi

as Abbot Guibourd

1966

Residence for Spies

as Radek (uncredited)

1962

The Shadow of Zorro

as El General (credit only)

1966

Triple Cross

as German Embassy Official

1950

Black Jack

as Schooner Captain

1954

Phantom of the Big Tent

as Armand LaRue, König der Luft

1950

The Elusive Pimpernel

as Comte de Tournai

1982

Deadline

as Doorman

Production

1968

Succubus

as Still Photographer

1974

Lorna, the Exorcist

as Still Photographer

1974

How to Seduce a Virgin

as Still Photographer

1974

Les Gloutonnes

as Still Photographer

1974

Fifteen Year Old Captain

as Still Photographer

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