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
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Movies (50)
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
as Cagliostro
1999
The Rock of Acapulco
as Le vieil homme
1996
The Complex of Toulon
as Charles Toulon
1996
Hey Stranger
as Old officer
1994
Jungle of Fear
1993
Delicatessen
as Frog Man
1991
The Carpathian Mushroom
as Jeremy Fairfax
1990
Black Sin
as Manes
1989
Hommage à Vernon
as Self (archive footage)
1988
Faceless
as Dr. Orloff
1988
The Howl of the Devil
as Eric
1988
The Death of Empedocles
as Hermokrates
1987
Terminus
as Monsieur (voice)
1987
The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil'
as Self
1987
Angel of Death
as Josef Mengele
1985
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
as Coronel Daniel J. Blimp
1985
All Mixed Up
as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique
1985
The Sinister Doctor Orloff
as Dr. Orloff
1984
Le fou du roi
as Abbot Guibourd
1984
Revenge in the House of Usher
as Roderic Usher
1983
Ogroff
as Vampire
1983
Blood on My Shoes
as Albert von Klaus
1983
Far from Manhattan
as René Dimanche
1982
Deadline
as Doorman
1982
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
as Dr. Lanyon
1981
Zombie Lake
as The Mayor
1981
The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner
as Self
1979
From Hell to Victory
as SS Major Karl
1979
Women in Cellblock 9
as Dr. Milton
1978
The Theatre of the Matters
as Hermann
1977
The Musician Killer
as Anton Varga
1976
Countess Perverse
as Count Rabor Zaroff
1975
Seven Women for Satan
as Karl, Zaroff's servant
1975
Don't Change Hands
as Jacques des Grieux
1975
Love and Death
as General Leveque
1975
The Garden That Tilts
as Paul
1975
The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
1975
The Mark of Zorro
as Governor Hayes
1975
Lorna, the Exorcist
as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)
1974
Celestine
as Grandfather
1974
Fifteen Year Old Captain
as Korda
1974
How to Seduce a Virgin
as Mathias
1974
The Greedy Ones
as Cagliostro
1974
Dolls for Sale
as Al Pereira
1973
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
as Uncle Howard
1973
Lovers of Devil's Island
as Colonel Ford
1973
The Other Side of the Mirror
as Ana's Father
1973
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
as Le docteur
1973
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
as Cagliostro
1973
The Day of the Jackal
as Cabinet Member
1973