Howard Vernon
Born: 1908-07-15 in Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]
Died: 1996-07-25
Known For: Acting
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
Filmography
1999
- Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell as Cagliostro
1996
- The Rock of Acapulco as Le vieil homme
- The Complex of Toulon as Charles Toulon
1994
- Hey Stranger as Old officer
1993
1991
- Delicatessen as Frog Man
1990
- The Carpathian Mushroom as Jeremy Fairfax
1989
- Black Sin as Manes
1988
- Faceless as Dr. Orloff
- The Howl of the Devil as Eric
- Hommage à Vernon as Self (archive footage)
1987
- Terminus as Monsieur (voice)
- The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil' as Self
- The Death of Empedocles as Hermokrates
1985
- Angel of Death as Josef Mengele
- All Mixed Up as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique
- Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included as Coronel Daniel J. Blimp
1984
- The Sinister Doctor Orloff as Dr. Orloff
- Le fou du roi as Abbot Guibourd
1983
- Revenge in the House of Usher as Roderic Usher
- Blood on My Shoes as Albert von Klaus
- Ogroff as Vampire
1982
- Far from Manhattan as René Dimanche
- Deadline as Doorman
1981
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne as Dr. Lanyon
- Zombie Lake as The Mayor
1979
- From Hell to Victory as SS Major Karl
- The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner as Self
1978
- Women in Cellblock 9 as Dr. Milton
1977
- The Theatre of the Matters as Hermann
1976
- The Musician Killer as Anton Varga
1975
- The Perverse Countess as Count Rabor Zaroff
- Love and Death as General Leveque
- The Garden That Tilts as Paul
- The Mark of Zorro as Governor Hayes
- Seven Women for Satan as Karl, Zaroff's servant
- The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
- Don't Change Hands as Jacques des Grieux
1974
- The Greedy Ones as Cagliostro
- Celestine as Grandfather
- How to Seduce a Virgin as Mathias
- Fifteen Year Old Captain as Korda
- Lorna, the Exorcist as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)
1973
- The Demons as Lord Malcolm De Winter
- The Day of the Jackal as Cabinet Member
- Dolls for Sale as Al Pereira
- A Virgin Among the Living Dead as Uncle Howard
- The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein as Cagliostro
- The Other Side of the Mirror as Ana's Father
- Lovers of Devil's Island as Colonel Ford
- Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac as Le docteur
1972
- Virgin Report as Anna's Father / The Inquisitor
- Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein as Dracula
- The French Sex Murders as Professor Waldemar
- Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves as Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant
- Daughter of Dracula as Count Karlstein / Dracula
- Sex Charade as General
1971
- Love Me Strangely as Maître Wasserman, property administrator
- She Killed in Ecstasy as Prof. Jonathan Walker
- X312 - Flight to Hell as Pedro
- The Devil Came from Akasava as Valet Humphrey
- Graf Luckner as Mercer
- Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur as Sir Horace Mill
1970
- The Blood Rose as Professeur Römer
- The Invisible Man's Love Life as Professor Orloff
- Nightmares Come at Night as Howard
- The Bloody Judge as Jack Ketch
- Ce que cherche Jacques
1969
- Marquis de Sade: Justine as Clément
1968
- Mayerling as Prince of Montenuovo
- Castle of the Creeping Flesh as Graf Saxon
- Succubus as Admiral Kapp
1967
- The Night of the Generals as Murder Suspect (uncredited)
- Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre as Ricardo Solesta
- The Hotheads as Mr. Gorsi, The Boss.
- The Unknown Man of Shandigor as Yvan
- The Dinosaur and the Baby as Self
- The Orgies of Dr. Orloff as Dam Gaillimh
1966
- Triple Cross as German Embassy Official
- The Game Is Over as Lawyer
- The Diabolical Dr. Z as Dr. Vicas
- The Poppy Is Also a Flower as Dr. Pineau
- The Mad Dog as Fred
- Residence for Spies as Radek (uncredited)
1965
- Alphaville as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
- What's New Pussycat? as Doctor
- Operation Double Cross as The 'professor'
- Taiwo Shango oder: Der zweite Tag nach dem Tod as Dr. Brian
1964
- On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
- The Train as Dietrich
- Black Angel of the Mississippi as Ray Terris
1963
- Vice and Virtue as S.S. General
- Un cas intéressant as Pr. Schroeder
- Autopsia de un criminal
1962
- Zorro the Avenger as The General Clarence
- The Shadow of Zorro as El General (credit only)
- The Awful Dr. Orlof as Dr. Orloff
- The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus as Max von Klaus
1961
- The Secret Ways as Colonel Hidas
- Léon Morin, Priest as Colonel
- Première brigade criminelle as Steven Hals
- The Sword of Vengeance
1960
- The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse as No. 12
- Death at Dawn
- Dossier AST-555 as Inspector Jackson
- Description of a Struggle as Narrator (German version)
- Rendezvous as Howard
1959
- Pensione Edelweiss as Général Funck
- Heiße Ware as Heinrich Strasser
- Atomic Agent as William Dantoren
1958
1957
- Weekend as Richard Greatham
- Until the Last One as Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist
- The River of Three Junks as Igor Kourguine
1956
- Operation Thunder as Roger Kervec
- Bob le Flambeur as McKimmie, the Sponsor
- Das Abschiedsgeschenk as Andrew Crocker-Harris
- The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent as Inspector Revel
- Alert in the Canary Islands as Maxime Bellac
1955
- 08/15 at Home as CIC-Offizier Ted
- Pas de souris dans le business as Robert Leperque
- Der grüne Kakadu as Henri
- Gottes Utopia as Paco Hernandes
- El fugitivo de Amberes as Bell Fermer
1954
- Royal Affairs in Versailles as English buyer
- Phantom of the Big Tent as Armand LaRue, König der Luft
1953
- Poison Ivy as Rudy Saltierra
- Lucrèce Borgia as The chaplain
- Le Petit Jacques as Daniel Mortal
- Mr. Scrupule, Gangster as Rolande's friend
1952
1951
- Adventures of Captain Fabian as Emile
- Hotbed of Sin as Charles
1950
- Black Jack as Schooner Captain
- The Elusive Pimpernel as Comte de Tournai
- Secret Document: Vienna as Colonel von Pennwitz
1949
- The Man on the Eiffel Tower as Inspector (uncredited)
- Du Guesclin as Lancaster
- The Inn of Sin as Ducourt
- The Silence of the Sea as Werner von Ebrennac
1948
- Colonel Durand
- The Devil Who Limped as Lord Palmerston
1947
- The Royalists as Captain Gérard
- Sky Battalion as German officer (uncredited)
- The Chips Are Down as Le chef milicien
1946
- A Friend Will Come Tonight as Robert Langlois, le muet
- Mr. Orchid as German Lieutenant Fleischer
- Clandestine
- Alert Nights as English aviator
- Devil and the Angel as Furet henchman
- The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic as (uncredited)
- Behind These Walls as German officer (uncredited)
1945
- Angel and Sinner as Prussian officer in Uville (uncredited)