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
Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969
as Clément
Delicatessen
1991
as Frog Man
The Train
1964
as Dietrich
What's New Pussycat?
1965
as Doctor
Women in Cellblock 9
1978
as Dr. Milton Costa
Alphaville
1965
as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
The Night of the Generals
1967
as Murder Suspect (uncredited)
Mayerling
1968
as Prince of Montenuovo
Triple Cross
1966
as German Embassy Official
Celestine
1974
as Grandfather
Love and Death
1975
as General Leveque
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
1973
as Le docteur
Countess Perverse
1975
as Count Rabor Zaroff
Deadline
1982
as Doorman
Terminus
1987
as Monsieur (voice)
X312 - Flight to Hell
1971
as Pedro
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966
as Dr. Pineau
Léon Morin, Priest
1961
as Colonel
From Hell to Victory
1979
as SS Major Karl
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953
as English buyer
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
1973
as Uncle Howard
Faceless
1988
as Dr. Orloff
Bob le Flambeur
1956
as McKimmie, the Sponsor
The Demons
1973
as Lord Malcolm De Winter
The Diabolical Dr. Z
1966
as Dr. Vicas
The Bloody Judge
1970
as Jack Ketch
Angel and Sinner
1945
as Prussian officer in Uville (uncredited)
The Garden That Tilts
1975
as Paul
The Secret Ways
1961
as Colonel Hidas
Lorna, the Exorcist
1974
as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)
Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter
1952
as Éric
Succubus
1968
as Admiral Kapp
The Game Is Over
1966
as Lawyer
Zombie Lake
1981
as The Mayor
The Other Side of the Mirror
1973
as Ana's Father
The Silence of the Sea
1949
as Werner von Ebrennac
The Shadow of Zorro
1962
as El General (credit only)
Lucrèce Borgia
1953
as The chaplain
The French Sex Murders
1972
as Professor Waldemar
Vice and Virtue
1963
as S.S. General
Angel of Death
1985
as Josef Mengele
The Greedy Ones
1974
as Cagliostro
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
1973
as Cagliostro
Poison Ivy
1953
as Rudy Saltierra
Nightmares Come at Night
1973
as Howard
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
1972
as Dracula
Until the Last One
1957
as Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist
Castle of the Creeping Flesh
1968
as Graf Saxon
All Mixed Up
1985
as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
1949
as Inspector (uncredited)
Blood on My Shoes
1983
as Albert von Klaus
Daughter of Dracula
1972
as Count Karlstein / Dracula
Ogroff
1983
as Vampire
The Devil Came from Akasava
1971
as Valet Humphrey
Secret Document: Vienna
1950
as Colonel von Pennwitz
How to Seduce a Virgin
1974
as Mathias
Zorro the Avenger
1962
as The General Clarence
The Devil Who Limped
1948
as Lord Palmerston
She Killed in Ecstasy
1971
as Prof. Jonathan Walker
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
1960
as No. 12
The Dinosaur and the Baby
1967
as Self
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981
as Dr. Lanyon
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
1964
Love Me Strangely
1971
as Maître Wasserman, property administrator
Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
1972
as Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant
Fifteen Year Old Captain
1974
as Korda
The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
1975
The Carpathian Mushroom
1990
as Jeremy Fairfax
The Royalists
1947
as Captain Gérard
The Awful Dr. Orlof
1962
as Dr. Orloff
The Elusive Pimpernel
1950
as Comte de Tournai
Virgin Report
1972
as Anna's Father / The Inquisitor
Atomic Agent
1959
as William Dantoren
The Hotheads
1967
as Mr. Gorsi, The Boss.
Revenge in the House of Usher
1983
as Roderic Usher
The Invisible Man's Love Life
1970
as Professor Orloff
Weekend
1957
as Richard Greatham
Black Angel of the Mississippi
1964
as Ray Terris
Du Guesclin
1949
as Lancaster
Mr. Orchid
1946
as German Lieutenant Fleischer
Behind These Walls
1946
as German officer (uncredited)
The Chips Are Down
1947
as Le chef milicien
The Mad Dog
1966
as Fred
Operation Thunder
1956
as Roger Kervec
A Friend Will Come Tonight
1946
as Robert Langlois, le muet
Seven Women for Satan
1975
as Karl, Zaroff's servant
The Blood Rose
1970
as Professeur Römer
The Death of Empedocles
1987
as Hermokrates
Death at Dawn
1960
The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
1962
as Max von Klaus
Adventures of Captain Fabian
1951
as Emile
Le fou du roi
1984
as Abbot Guibourd
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
1999
as Cagliostro
Description of a Struggle
1960
as Narrator (German version)
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
1946
as (uncredited)
Residence for Spies
1968
as Radek (uncredited)
The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent
1956
as Inspector Revel
Autopsia de un criminal
1963
The Mark of Zorro
1975
as Governor Hayes
Lovers of Devil's Island
1973
as Colonel Ford
Black Jack
1950
as Schooner Captain
Sky Battalion
1947
as German officer (uncredited)
Operation Double Cross
1965
as The 'professor'
Devil and the Angel
1946
as Furet henchman
The Howl of the Devil
1988
as Eric
Phantom of the Big Tent
1954
as Armand LaRue, König der Luft
Pensione Edelweiss
1959
as Général Funck
The Inn of Sin
1949
as Ducourt
Dossier AST-555
1960
as Inspector Jackson
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included
1985
as Coronel Daniel J. Blimp
The Orgies of Dr. Orloff
1967
as Dam Gaillimh
The Rock of Acapulco
1996
as Le vieil homme
Alert Nights
1946
as English aviator
08/15 at Home
1955
as CIC-Offizier Ted
Far from Manhattan
1982
as René Dimanche
Hey Stranger
1994
as Old officer
The Theatre of the Matters
1977
as Hermann
Doctor Crippen Lives
1958
Ce que cherche Jacques
1970
as Jacques
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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