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