Howard Vernon

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1908-07-15

Deathday 1996-07-25 (88 years old)

Place of Birth Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]

Also Known As Mario Lippert, Mario Lipert

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Vernon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For

Actor

1999
1996
The Complex of Toulon

as Charles Toulon

1994
Hey Stranger

as Old officer

1991
Delicatessen

as Frog Man

1990
The Carpathian Mushroom

as Jeremy Fairfax

1989
Black Sin

as Manes

1988
Faceless

as Dr. Orloff

1988
Hommage à Vernon

as Self (archive footage)

1988
1987
1987
Terminus

as Monsieur (voice)

1985
Angel of Death

as Josef Mengele

1985
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included

as Coronel Daniel J. Blimp

1985
All Mixed Up

as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique

1984
1984
Le fou du roi

as Abbot Guibourd

1983
1983
Ogroff

as Vampire

1983
Blood on My Shoes

as Albert von Klaus

1982
Far from Manhattan

as René Dimanche

1981
Zombie Lake

as The Mayor

1979
From Hell to Victory

as SS Major Karl

1978
Women in Cellblock 9

as Dr. Milton

1976
1975
The Perverse Countess

as Count Rabor Zaroff

1975
Seven Women for Satan

as Karl, Zaroff's servant

1975
Don't Change Hands

as Jacques des Grieux

1975
Love and Death

as General Leveque

1975
The Mark of Zorro

as Governor Hayes

1974
Lorna, the Exorcist

as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)

1974
Celestine

as Grandfather

1974
1974
Les Gloutonnes

as Cagliostro

1973
Dolls for Sale

as Al Pereira

1973
1973
Lovers of Devil's Island

as Colonel Ford

1973
1973
The Day of the Jackal

as Cabinet Member

1973
The Demons

as Lord Malcolm De Winter

1973
Graf Luckner

as Mercer

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
The French Sex Murders

as Professor Waldemar

1972
Sex Charade

as General

1972
Virgin Report

as Anna's Father / The Inquisitor

1971
She Killed in Ecstasy

as Prof. Jonathan Walker

1971
The Devil Came from Akasava

as Valet Humphrey

1971
Love Me Strangely

as Maître Wasserman - l'administrateur de biens

1970
The Invisible Man's Love Life

as Professor Orloff

1970
The Blood Rose

as Professeur Römer

1970
The Bloody Judge

as Jack Ketch

1969
1968
Mayerling

as Prince of Montenuovo

1968
Succubus

as Admiral Kapp

1967
The Hotheads

as Mr. Gorsi, The Boss.

1967
The Orgies of Dr. Orloff

as Dam Gaillimh

1967
The Night of the Generals

as Murder Suspect (uncredited)

1967
1966
Triple Cross

as German Embassy Official

1966
The Mad Dog

as Fred

1966
1966
1966
1966
Residence for Spies

as Radek (uncredited)

1965
Operation Double Cross

as Le professeur

1965
1965
Alphaville

as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)

1964
The Train

as Dietrich

1963
Vice and Virtue

as S.S. General

1963
Un cas intéressant

as Pr. Schroeder

1962
The Shadow of Zorro

as El General (credit only)

1962
Zorro the Avenger

as The General Clarence

1962
1962
The Awful Dr. Orlof

as Dr. Orloff

1961
1961
1961
The Secret Ways

as Colonel Hidas

1960
Dossier AST-555

as Inspector Jackson

1960
Rendezvous

as Howard

1959
Atomic Agent

as William Dantoren

1959
Heiße Ware

as Heinrich Strasser

1959
Pensione Edelweiss

as Général Funck

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
Bob le Flambeur

as McKimmie, the Sponsor

1956
1956
Operation Thunder

as Roger Kervec

1956
Das Abschiedsgeschenk

as Andrew Crocker-Harris

1955
08/15 at Home

as CIC-Offizier Ted

1955
1955
Gottes Utopia

as Paco Hernandes

1955
El fugitivo de Amberes

as Bell Fermer

1955
1954
Phantom of the Big Tent

as Armand LaRue, König der Luft

1954
1953
Lucrèce Borgia

as The chaplain

1953
Le Petit Jacques

as Daniel Mortal

1953
Mr. Scrupule, Gangster

as Rolande's friend

1953
Poison Ivy

as Rudy Saltierra

1951
Hotbed of Sin

as Charles

1950
Black Jack

as Schooner Captain

1950
The Elusive Pimpernel

as Comte de Tournai

1950
Secret Document: Vienna

as Colonel von Pennwitz

1949
The Inn of Sin

as Ducourt

1949
The Man on the Eiffel Tower

as Inspector (uncredited)

1949
Du Guesclin

as Lancaster

1949
The Silence of the Sea

as Werner von Ebrennac

1948
The Devil Who Limped

as Lord Palmerston

1947
The Chips Are Down

as Le chef milicien

1947
The Royalists

as Captain Gérard

1947
Sky Battalion

as German officer (uncredited)

1946
Devil and the Angel

as Furet henchman

1946
Alert Nights

as English aviator

1946
1946
Mr. Orchid

as German Lieutenant Fleischer

1946
A Friend Will Come Tonight

as Robert Langlois, le muet

1946
Behind These Walls

as German officer (uncredited)

1945
Angel and Sinner

as Prussian officer in Uville (uncredited)

Camera

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

1968
Succubus

as Still Photographer