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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Filmography
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
1999
as Cagliostro
The Rock of Acapulco
1996
as Le vieil homme
The Complex of Toulon
1996
as Charles Toulon
Hey Stranger
1994
as Old officer
- No poster
Jungle of Fear
1993
Delicatessen
1991
as Frog Man
The Carpathian Mushroom
1990
as Jeremy Fairfax
Black Sin
1989
as Manes
- No poster
Hommage à Vernon
1988
as Self (archive footage)
Faceless
1988
as Dr. Orloff
The Howl of the Devil
1988
as Eric
The Death of Empedocles
1987
as Hermokrates
Terminus
1987
as Monsieur (voice)
- No poster
The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil'
1987
as Self
Angel of Death
1985
as Josef Mengele
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included
1985
as Coronel Daniel J. Blimp
All Mixed Up
1985
as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique
The Sinister Doctor Orloff
1984
as Dr. Orloff
Le fou du roi
1984
as Abbot Guibourd
Revenge in the House of Usher
1983
as Roderic Usher
Ogroff
1983
as Vampire
Blood on My Shoes
1983
as Albert von Klaus
Far from Manhattan
1982
as René Dimanche
Deadline
1982
as Doorman