Actor
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 a ...

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