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Howard Vernon

Acting Born Jul 15, 1908 Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany] 24 credits

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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Full filmography

  • Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre (1967) as Ricardo Solesta
  • The Day of the Jackal (1973) as Cabinet Member
  • Graf Luckner (1971) as Mercer
  • Mayerling (1968) as Prince of Montenuovo
  • Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969) as Clément
  • Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur (1971) as Sir Horace Mill
  • Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur (1971) as Sir Horace
  • Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur (1971) as Horace Mill
  • Delicatessen (1991) as Frog Man
  • Alphaville (1965) as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
  • The Train (1964) as Dietrich
  • Triple Cross (1966) as German Embassy Official
  • Celestine (1974) as Grandfather
  • What's New Pussycat? (1965) as Doctor
  • Women in Cellblock 9 (1978) as Dr. Milton Costa
  • The Night of the Generals (1967) as Murder Suspect (uncredited)
  • Countess Perverse (1975) as Count Rabor Zaroff
  • The Bloody Judge (1970) as Jack Ketch
  • Love and Death (1975) as General Leveque
  • Léon Morin, Priest (1961) as Colonel
  • The Sword of Vengeance (1961)
  • Royal Affairs in Versailles (1953) as English buyer
  • Faceless (1988) as Dr. Orloff
  • Bob le Flambeur (1956) as McKimmie, the Sponsor