Howard Vernon
Known for Acting · 156 credits
- Born
- 1908-07-15
- Died
- 1996-07-25
- Place of birth
- Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]
- Also known as
- Mario Lippert · Mario Lipert · Mario Walter Lippert · Howard Wernon
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
TV Shows (3)
Movies (153)
The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Cabinet Member
Delicatessen
1991
as Frog Man
Celestine
1974
as Grandfather
The Night of the Generals
1967
as Murder Suspect (uncredited)
Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969
as Clément
Lucrèce Borgia
1953
as The chaplain
Alphaville
1965
as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
Lorna, the Exorcist
1974
as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)
Mayerling
1968
as Prince of Montenuovo
Léon Morin, Priest
1961
as Colonel
Nightmares Come at Night
1973
as Howard
Opération Jericho
as Un soldat allemand
Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter
1952
as Éric
Love and Death
1975
as General Leveque
Countess Perverse
1975
as Count Rabor Zaroff
Dolls for Sale
1973
as Al Pereira
The Train
1964
as Dietrich
Ogroff
1983
as Vampire
Women in Cellblock 9
1978
as Dr. Milton Costa
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
1973
as Cagliostro
What's New Pussycat?
1965
as Doctor
Until the Last One
1957
as Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist
Death at Dawn
1960
Love Me Strangely
1971
as Maître Wasserman, property administrator
Bob le Flambeur
1956
as McKimmie, the Sponsor
Zombie Lake
1981
as The Mayor
From Hell to Victory
1979
as SS Major Karl
Das Abschiedsgeschenk
1956
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966
as Dr. Pineau
The Musician Killer
1976
as Anton Varga
Triple Cross
1966
as German Embassy Official
All Mixed Up
1985
as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique
Black Sin
1989
as Manes
The Girl with the Whip
1952
as Borgo
The Silence of the Sea
1949
as Werner von Ebrennac
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
1973
as Uncle Howard
The Secret Ways
1961
as Colonel Hidas
Der grüne Kakadu
1955
as Henri
The Bloody Judge
1970
as Jack Ketch
Succubus
1968
as Admiral Kapp
X312 - Flight to Hell
1971
as Pedro
The Demons
1973
as Lord Malcolm De Winter
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953
as English buyer
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
1967
as Bobby Gun
She Killed in Ecstasy
1971
as Prof. Jonathan Walker
The Garden That Tilts
1975
as Paul
The Complex of Toulon
1996
as Charles Toulon
Terminus
1987
as Monsieur (voice)
The Other Side of the Mirror
1973
as Ana's Father
The Orgies of Dr. Orloff
1967
as Dam Gaillimh
Le Petit Jacques
1953
as Daniel Mortal
The Blood Rose
1970
as Professeur Römer
Secret Document: Vienna
1950
as Colonel von Pennwitz
The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent
1956
as Inspector Revel
The Rock of Acapulco
1996
as Le vieil homme
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
1972
as Dracula
Dossier AST-555
1960
as Inspector Jackson
Far from Manhattan
1982
as René Dimanche
The Awful Dr. Orlof
1962
as Dr. Orloff
How to Seduce a Virgin
1974
as Mathias
Poison Ivy
1953
as Rudy Saltierra
Lovers of Devil's Island
1973
as Colonel Ford
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981
as Dr. Lanyon
Fifteen Year Old Captain
1974
as Korda
The River of Three Junks
1957
as Igor Kourguine
Le fou du roi
1984
as Abbot Guibourd
The Shadow of Zorro
1962
as El General (credit only)
Alert in the Canary Islands
1956
as Maxime Bellac
Sex Charade
1972
as General
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
1973
as Le docteur
The French Sex Murders
1972
as Professor Waldemar
Atomic Agent
1959
as William Dantoren
The Game Is Over
1966
as Lawyer
Seven Women for Satan
1975
as Karl, Zaroff's servant
The Sinister Doctor Orloff
1984
as Dr. Orloff
Vice and Virtue
1963
as S.S. General
Revenge in the House of Usher
1983
as Roderic Usher
08/15 at Home
1955
as CIC-Offizier Ted
Angel of Death
1985
as Josef Mengele
The Mad Dog
1966
as Fred
Hotbed of Sin
1951
as Charles
The Devil Came from Akasava
1971
as Valet Humphrey
The Diabolical Dr. Z
1966
as Dr. Vicas
The Elusive Pimpernel
1950
as Comte de Tournai
Operation Double Cross
1965
as The 'professor'
Angel and Sinner
1945
as Prussian officer in Uville (uncredited)
Pas de souris dans le business
1955
as Robert Leperque
Ce que cherche Jacques
1970
as Jacques
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
1949
as Inspector (uncredited)
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
1960
as No. 12
The Theatre of the Matters
1977
as Hermann
Virgin Report
1972
as Anna's Father / The Inquisitor
Si ça vous chante
1952
The Invisible Man's Love Life
1970
as Professor Orloff
Castle of the Creeping Flesh
1968
as Graf Saxon
The Mark of Zorro
1975
as Governor Hayes
Pensione Edelweiss
1959
as Général Funck
Taiwo Shango oder: Der zweite Tag nach dem Tod
1965
as Dr. Brian
Du Guesclin
1949
as Lancaster
The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
1975
The Devil Who Limped
1948
as Lord Palmerston
Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
1972
as Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant
Hommage à Vernon
1988
as Self (archive footage)
The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
1962
as Max von Klaus
Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
1953
as Rolande's friend
The Death of Empedocles
1987
as Hermokrates
The Howl of the Devil
1988
as Eric
Mr. Orchid
1946
as German Lieutenant Fleischer
The Chips Are Down
1947
as Le chef milicien
Hey Stranger
1994
as Old officer
Devil and the Angel
1946
as Furet henchman
The Greedy Ones
1974
as Cagliostro
Daughter of Dracula
1972
as Count Karlstein / Dracula
Residence for Spies
1968
as Radek (uncredited)
Behind These Walls
1946
as German officer (uncredited)
Gottes Utopia
1955
as Paco Hernandes
Phantom of the Big Tent
1954
as Armand LaRue, König der Luft
Faceless
1988
as Dr. Orloff
Autopsia de un criminal
1963
Blood on My Shoes
1983
as Albert von Klaus
About Howard Vernon
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, starri… With 156 credits spanning from 1945 to 1999, Howard Vernon has appeared in 153 films and 3 TV shows.
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- Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969) — as Clément
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