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.
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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