Howard Vernon
Known for ActingBorn 1908-07-15 — died 1996-07-25Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]
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
Celestine
1974 · as Grandfather
The Day of the Jackal
1973 · as Cabinet Member
Mayerling
1968 · as Prince of Montenuovo
Delicatessen
1991 · as Frog Man
Lucrèce Borgia
1953 · as The chaplain
Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969 · as Clément
Alphaville
1965 · as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
The Train
1964 · as Dietrich
Countess Perverse
1975 · as Count Rabor Zaroff
What's New Pussycat?
1965 · as Doctor
Love and Death
1975 · as General Leveque
Women in Cellblock 9
1978 · as Dr. Milton Costa
The Night of the Generals
1967 · as Murder Suspect (uncredited)
Succubus
1968 · as Admiral Kapp
Triple Cross
1966 · as German Embassy Official
Lorna, the Exorcist
1974 · as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)
Opération Jericho
as Un soldat allemand
Léon Morin, Priest
1961 · as Colonel