
Howard Vernon
Known for Acting · 156 credits
- Born
- 1908-07-15
- Died
- 1996-07-25
- Place of birth
- Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]
- Also known as
- Mario Lippert · Mario Lipert · Mario Walter Lippert · Howard Wernon
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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Known For
TV Shows (3)
Movies (153)

The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Cabinet Member

Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969
as Clément

The Train
1964
as Dietrich

Women in Cellblock 9
1978
as Dr. Milton Costa

Delicatessen
1991
as Frog Man

Mayerling
1968
as Prince of Montenuovo

What's New Pussycat?
1965
as Doctor

Celestine
1974
as Grandfather

Alphaville
1965
as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)

The Night of the Generals
1967
as Murder Suspect (uncredited)

Triple Cross
1966
as German Embassy Official

From Hell to Victory
1979
as SS Major Karl

Countess Perverse
1975
as Count Rabor Zaroff

Deadline
1982
as Doorman

Love and Death
1975
as General Leveque

The Secret Ways
1961
as Colonel Hidas

The Silence of the Sea
1949
as Werner von Ebrennac

Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953
as English buyer

Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
1973
as Le docteur

Virgin Report
1972
as Anna's Father / The Inquisitor

Léon Morin, Priest
1961
as Colonel

Lorna, the Exorcist
1974
as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)

The Other Side of the Mirror
1973
as Ana's Father

The Greedy Ones
1974
as Cagliostro

The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966
as Dr. Pineau

The Bloody Judge
1970
as Jack Ketch

Bob le Flambeur
1956
as McKimmie, the Sponsor

Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter
1952
as Éric

Castle of the Creeping Flesh
1968
as Graf Saxon

Succubus
1968
as Admiral Kapp

The Demons
1973
as Lord Malcolm De Winter

A Virgin Among the Living Dead
1973
as Uncle Howard

The Game Is Over
1966
as Lawyer

Zombie Lake
1981
as The Mayor

Love Me Strangely
1971
as Maître Wasserman, property administrator

Terminus
1987
as Monsieur (voice)

The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
1973
as Cagliostro

Faceless
1988
as Dr. Orloff

Behind These Walls
1946
as German officer (uncredited)

The Man on the Eiffel Tower
1949
as Inspector (uncredited)

The Devil Who Limped
1948
as Lord Palmerston

Revenge in the House of Usher
1983
as Roderic Usher

Le Petit Jacques
1953
as Daniel Mortal

Daughter of Dracula
1972
as Count Karlstein / Dracula

The Shadow of Zorro
1962
as El General (credit only)

The French Sex Murders
1972
as Professor Waldemar

How to Seduce a Virgin
1974
as Mathias

Angel of Death
1985
as Josef Mengele

The Devil Came from Akasava
1971
as Valet Humphrey

Vice and Virtue
1963
as S.S. General

Ogroff
1983
as Vampire

The Invisible Man's Love Life
1970
as Professor Orloff

All Mixed Up
1985
as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique

Seven Women for Satan
1975
as Karl, Zaroff's servant

The Garden That Tilts
1975
as Paul

Nightmares Come at Night
1973
as Howard

The Diabolical Dr. Z
1966
as Dr. Vicas

Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
1972
as Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant

The Dinosaur and the Baby
1967
as Self

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
1960
as No. 12

Blood on My Shoes
1983
as Albert von Klaus

Black Jack
1950
as Schooner Captain

Until the Last One
1957
as Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist

Poison Ivy
1953
as Rudy Saltierra

The Elusive Pimpernel
1950
as Comte de Tournai

The Blood Rose
1970
as Professeur Römer

Lucrèce Borgia
1953
as The chaplain

Black Angel of the Mississippi
1964
as Ray Terris

Dolls for Sale
1973
as Al Pereira

X312 - Flight to Hell
1971
as Pedro

Angel and Sinner
1945
as Prussian officer in Uville (uncredited)

The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
1975

Fifteen Year Old Captain
1974
as Korda

Du Guesclin
1949
as Lancaster

Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
1972
as Dracula

Adventures of Captain Fabian
1951
as Emile

The Orgies of Dr. Orloff
1967
as Dam Gaillimh

The Royalists
1947
as Captain Gérard

Sky Battalion
1947
as German officer (uncredited)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981
as Dr. Lanyon

A Friend Will Come Tonight
1946
as Robert Langlois, le muet

The Chips Are Down
1947
as Le chef milicien

Atomic Agent
1959
as William Dantoren

She Killed in Ecstasy
1971
as Prof. Jonathan Walker

The Howl of the Devil
1988
as Eric

Le fou du roi
1984
as Abbot Guibourd

Secret Document: Vienna
1950
as Colonel von Pennwitz

Mr. Orchid
1946
as German Lieutenant Fleischer
The Musician Killer
1976
as Anton Varga

Hotbed of Sin
1951
as Charles

Devil and the Angel
1946
as Furet henchman

The Awful Dr. Orlof
1962
as Dr. Orloff
Weekend
1957
as Richard Greatham

Zorro the Avenger
1962
as The General Clarence

The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
1962
as Max von Klaus

08/15 at Home
1955
as CIC-Offizier Ted

Heiße Ware
1959
as Heinrich Strasser

Pas de souris dans le business
1955
as Robert Leperque

Pensione Edelweiss
1959
as Général Funck

Death at Dawn
1960

Phantom of the Big Tent
1954
as Armand LaRue, König der Luft

Operation Double Cross
1965
as The 'professor'

The Death of Empedocles
1987
as Hermokrates

The Mad Dog
1966
as Fred

Doctor Crippen Lives
1958

Operation Thunder
1956
as Roger Kervec

Dossier AST-555
1960
as Inspector Jackson

Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
1999
as Cagliostro

Black Sin
1989
as Manes

The Sword of Vengeance
1961

The Theatre of the Matters
1977
as Hermann
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
1964
Jungle of Fear
1993

Description of a Struggle
1960
as Narrator (German version)

Autopsia de un criminal
1963
Das Abschiedsgeschenk
1956
as Andrew Crocker-Harris

Lovers of Devil's Island
1973
as Colonel Ford

The Girl with the Whip
1952
as Borgo

The Mark of Zorro
1975
as Governor Hayes

Far from Manhattan
1982
as René Dimanche
About Howard Vernon
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, starri… With 156 credits spanning from 1945 to 1999, Howard Vernon has appeared in 153 films and 3 TV shows.
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- The Day of the Jackal (1973) — as Cabinet Member
- Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969) — as Clément
- The Train (1964) — as Dietrich
- Women in Cellblock 9 (1978) — as Dr. Milton Costa
- Delicatessen (1991) — as Frog Man
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