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
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
1967
Graf Luckner
1971
The Day of the Jackal
1973
The Night of the Generals
1967
The Bloody Judge
1970
Faceless
1988
Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur
1971
Léon Morin, Priest
1961
Love and Death
1975
Delicatessen
1991
Alphaville
1965
The Train
1964
Filmography
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
as Ricardo Solesta · 1967
Graf Luckner
as Mercer · 1971
The Day of the Jackal
as Cabinet Member · 1973
The Night of the Generals
as Murder Suspect (uncredited) · 1967
The Bloody Judge
as Jack Ketch · 1970
Faceless
as Dr. Orloff · 1988
Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur
as Sir Horace Mill · 1971
Léon Morin, Priest
as Colonel · 1961
Love and Death
as General Leveque · 1975
Delicatessen
as Frog Man · 1991
Alphaville
as Léonard von Braun (uncredited) · 1965
The Train
as Dietrich · 1964
Marquis de Sade: Justine
as Clément · 1969
Countess Perverse
as Count Rabor Zaroff · 1975
What's New Pussycat?
as Doctor · 1965
Mayerling
as Prince of Montenuovo · 1968
Succubus
as Admiral Kapp · 1968
Triple Cross
as German Embassy Official · 1966
The Elusive Pimpernel
as Comte de Tournai · 1950
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
as Dr. Pineau · 1966
From Hell to Victory
as SS Major Karl · 1979
Royal Affairs in Versailles
as English buyer · 1953
How to Seduce a Virgin
as Mathias · 1974
Bob le Flambeur
as McKimmie, the Sponsor · 1956
The Demons
as Lord Malcolm De Winter · 1973
Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter
as Éric · 1952
The Silence of the Sea
as Werner von Ebrennac · 1949
Women in Cellblock 9
as Dr. Milton Costa · 1978
Celestine
as Grandfather · 1974
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
as Inspector (uncredited) · 1949
Lorna, the Exorcist
as Maurizius (Lornas Butler) · 1974
Zombie Lake
as The Mayor · 1981
Lucrèce Borgia
as The chaplain · 1953
She Killed in Ecstasy
as Prof. Jonathan Walker · 1971
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
as Uncle Howard · 1973
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
as Dr. Lanyon · 1981
The Secret Ways
as Colonel Hidas · 1961
Black Jack
as Schooner Captain · 1950
The French Sex Murders
as Professor Waldemar · 1972
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
as Cagliostro · 1973
Ogroff
as Vampire · 1983
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
as No. 12 · 1960
Daughter of Dracula
as Count Karlstein / Dracula · 1972
Orloff and the Invisible Man
as Professor Orloff · 1970
The Awful Dr. Orlof
as Dr. Orloff · 1962
The Diabolical Dr. Z
as Dr. Vicas · 1966
Howl of the Devil
as Eric · 1988
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
as Dracula · 1972
Nightmares Come at Night
as Howard · 1973
Love Me Strangely
as Maître Wasserman, property administrator · 1971
Adventures of Captain Fabian
as Emile · 1951
Black Sin
as Manes · 1989
Vice and Virtue
as S.S. General · 1963
The Other Side of the Mirror
as Ana's Father · 1973
Phantom of the Big Tent
as Armand LaRue, König der Luft · 1954
Poison Ivy
as Rudy Saltierra · 1953
Seven Women for Satan
as Karl, Zaroff's servant · 1975
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
as Bobby Gun · 1967
Angel of Death
as Josef Mengele · 1985
The Blood Rose
as Professeur Römer · 1970
The Orgies of Dr. Orloff
as Dam Gaillimh · 1967
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
as Le docteur · 1973
Terminus
as Monsieur (voice) · 1987
Opération Jericho
as Un soldat allemand
The Sinister Doctor Orloff
as Dr. Orloff · 1984
The Shadow of Zorro
as El General (credit only) · 1962
The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
as Max von Klaus · 1962
Secret Document: Vienna
as Colonel von Pennwitz · 1950
Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
as Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant · 1972
X312 - Flight to Hell
as Pedro · 1971
Dolls for Sale
as Al Pereira · 1973
The Rock of Acapulco
as Le vieil homme · 1996
The Theatre of the Matters
as Hermann · 1977
Castle of the Creeping Flesh
as Graf Saxon · 1968
Du Guesclin
as Lancaster · 1949
Fifteen Year Old Captain
as Korda · 1973
A Friend Will Come Tonight
as Robert Langlois, le muet · 1946
The Girl with the Whip
as Borgo · 1952
The Devil Came from Akasava
as Valet Humphrey · 1971
Pas de souris dans le business
as Robert Leperque · 1955
Hotbed of Sin
as Charles · 1951
Hey Stranger
as Old officer · 1994
The Game Is Over
as Lawyer · 1966
The Dinosaur and the Baby
as Self · 1967
08/15 at Home
as CIC-Offizier Ted · 1955
Si ça vous chante
· 1952
The Garden That Tilts
as Paul · 1975
Operation Double Cross
as The 'professor' · 1965
Operation Thunder
as Roger Kervec · 1956
The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
· 1975
Until the Last One
as Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist · 1957
Description of a Struggle
as Narrator (German version) · 1960
The Carpathian Mushroom
as Jeremy Fairfax · 1990
The Devil Who Limped
as Lord Palmerston · 1948
The Complex of Toulon
as Charles Toulon · 1996
Black Angel of the Mississippi
as Ray Terris · 1964
The Sword of Vengeance
· 1961
The Royalists
as Captain Gérard · 1947
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included
as Coronel Daniel J. Blimp · 1985
Atomic Agent
as William Dantoren · 1959
Alert in the Canary Islands
as Maxime Bellac · 1956
Rendezvous
as Howard · 1960
The Chips Are Down
as Le chef milicien · 1947
The Death of Empedocles
as Hermokrates · 1987
Angel and Sinner
as Prussian officer in Uville (uncredited) · 1945
Blood on My Shoes
as Albert von Klaus · 1983
The Inn of Sin
as Ducourt · 1949
The Mark of Zorro
as Governor Hayes · 1975
Der grüne Kakadu
as Henri · 1955
Dossier AST-555
as Inspector Jackson · 1960
Residence for Spies
as Radek (uncredited) · 1968
Das Abschiedsgeschenk
as Andrew Crocker-Harris · 1956
Ce que cherche Jacques
as Jacques · 1970
Pensione Edelweiss
as Général Funck · 1959
Zorro the Avenger
as The General Clarence · 1962
Le fou du roi
as Abbot Guibourd · 1984
Death at Dawn
· 1960
The Musician Killer
as Anton Varga · 1976
El fugitivo de Amberes
as Bell Fermer · 1955
Devil and the Angel
as Furet henchman · 1946
Deadline
as Doorman · 1982
Lovers of Devil's Island
as Colonel Ford · 1973
Un cas intéressant
as Pr. Schroeder · 1963
Revenge in the House of Usher
as Roderic Usher · 1983
Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
as Rolande's friend · 1953
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
· 1964
Gottes Utopia
as Paco Hernandes · 1955
The Mad Dog
as Fred · 1966
Doctor Crippen Lives
· 1958
All Mixed Up
as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique · 1985
Mr. Orchid
as German Lieutenant Fleischer · 1946
The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner
as Self · 1979
Autopsia de un criminal
· 1963
Virgin Report
as Anna's Father / The Inquisitor · 1972
The River of Three Junks
as Igor Kourguine · 1957
The Greedy Ones
as Cagliostro · 1974
Alert Nights
as English aviator · 1946
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
as Cagliostro · 1999
Far from Manhattan
as René Dimanche · 1982
Behind These Walls
as German officer (uncredited) · 1946
Sky Battalion
as German officer (uncredited) · 1947
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
as (uncredited) · 1946
Jungle of Fear
· 1993
Heiße Ware
as Heinrich Strasser · 1959
The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent
as Inspector Revel · 1956
The Hotheads
as Mr. Gorsi, The Boss. · 1967
Première brigade criminelle
as Steven Hals · 1961
The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil'
as Self · 1987
Le Petit Jacques
as Daniel Mortal · 1953
Colonel Durand
· 1948
Hommage à Vernon
as Self (archive footage) · 1988
Taiwo Shango oder: Der zweite Tag nach dem Tod
as Dr. Brian · 1965
Clandestine
· 1946
Weekend
as Richard Greatham · 1957
Don't Change Hands
as Jacques des Grieux · 1975