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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

152

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-07-15

Deathday

1996-07-25 (88 years old)

Place of Birth

Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]

Also Known As

Mario Lippert
Mario Lipert
Mario Walter Lippert

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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Acting

1999

Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell as Cagliostro

1996

The Complex of Toulon as Charles Toulon

1994

Hey Stranger as Old officer

1993

Jungle of Fear

1991

Delicatessen as Frog Man

1990

The Carpathian Mushroom as Jeremy Fairfax

1989

Black Sin as Manes

1988		Hommage à Vernon as Self (archive footage)
1988		Faceless as Dr. Orloff
1988		Howl of the Devil as Eric

1987		The Death of Empedocles as Hermokrates
1987		Terminus as Monsieur (voice)
1987		The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil' as Self

1985		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

1984		The Sinister Doctor Orloff as Dr. Orloff
1984		Le fou du roi as Abbot Guibourd

1983		Revenge in the House of Usher as Roderic Usher
1983		Ogroff as Vampire
1983		Blood on My Shoes as Albert von Klaus

1982		Far from Manhattan as René Dimanche
1982		Deadline as Doorman

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

1979		The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner as Self
1979		From Hell to Victory as SS Major Karl

1978

Women in Cellblock 9 as Dr. Milton

1977

The Theatre of the Matters as Hermann

1976

The Musician Killer as Anton Varga

1975		The Perverse Countess 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

1974		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		Les Gloutonnes as Cagliostro

1973		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		Graf Luckner as Mercer
1973		The Demons as Lord Malcolm De Winter

1972		Daughter of Dracula as Count Karlstein / Dracula
1972		Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein as Dracula
1972		Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves as Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant
1972		The French Sex Murders as Professor Waldemar
1972		Sex Charade as General
1972		Virgin Report as Anna's Father / The Inquisitor

1971		She Killed in Ecstasy as Prof. Jonathan Walker
1971		X312 - Flight to Hell as Pedro
1971		The Devil Came from Akasava as Valet Humphrey
1971		Love Me Strangely as Maître Wasserman - l'administrateur de biens

1970		The Invisible Man's Love Life as Professor Orloff
1970		The Blood Rose as Professeur Römer
1970		Nightmares Come at Night as Howard
1970		The Bloody Judge as Jack Ketch
1970		Ce que cherche Jacques

1969

Marquis de Sade: Justine as Clément

1968		Mayerling as Prince of Montenuovo
1968		Castle of the Creeping Flesh as Graf Saxon
1968		Succubus as Admiral Kapp

1967		The Hotheads as Mr. Gorsi, The Boss.
1967		The Orgies of Dr. Orloff as Dam Gaillimh
1967		Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre as Ricardo Solesta
1967		The Unknown Man of Shandigor as Yvan
1967		The Dinosaur and the Baby as Self
1967		The Night of the Generals as Murder Suspect (uncredited)

1966		Triple Cross as German Embassy Official
1966		The Mad Dog as Fred
1966		The Diabolical Dr. Z as Dr. Vicas
1966		The Game Is Over as Lawyer
1966		The Poppy Is Also a Flower as Dr. Pineau
1966		Residence for Spies as Radek (uncredited)

1965		Taiwo Shango oder: Der zweite Tag nach dem Tod as Dr. Brian
1965		Operation Double Cross as Le professeur
1965		What's New Pussycat? as Doctor
1965		Alphaville as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)

1964		On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
1964		The Train as Dietrich
1964		Black Angel of the Mississippi as Ray Terris

1963		Autopsia de un criminal
1963		Vice and Virtue as S.S. General
1963		Un cas intéressant as Pr. Schroeder

1962		The Shadow of Zorro as El General (credit only)
1962		Zorro the Avenger as The General Clarence
1962		The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus as Max von Klaus
1962		The Awful Dr. Orlof as Dr. Orloff

1961		The Sword of Vengeance
1961		Léon Morin, Priest as Colonel
1961		Première brigade criminelle as Steven Hals
1961		The Secret Ways as Colonel Hidas

1960		Dossier AST-555 as Inspector Jackson
1960		The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse as No. 12
1960		Rendezvous as Howard
1960		Death at Dawn

1959		Atomic Agent as William Dantoren
1959		Heiße Ware as Heinrich Strasser
1959		Pensione Edelweiss as Général Funck

1958

Doctor Crippen Lives

1957		Weekend as Richard Greatham
1957		Until the Last One as Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist
1957		The River of Three Junks as Igor Kourguine

1956		La melodía misteriosa as Inspector Revel
1956		Bob le Flambeur as McKimmie, the Sponsor
1956		Alert in the Canary Islands as Maxime Bellac
1956		Operation Thunder as Roger Kervec
1956		Das Abschiedsgeschenk as Andrew Crocker-Harris

1955		08/15 at Home as CIC-Offizier Ted
1955		Der grüne Kakadu as Henri
1955		Gottes Utopia as Paco Hernandes
1955		El fugitivo de Amberes as Bell Fermer
1955		Pas de souris dans le business as Robert Leperque

1954		Phantom of the Big Tent as Armand LaRue, König der Luft
1954		Royal Affairs in Versailles as English buyer

1953		Lucrèce Borgia as The chaplain
1953		Le Petit Jacques as Daniel Mortal
1953		Mr. Scrupule, Gangster as Rolande's friend
1953		Poison Ivy as Rudy Saltierra

1952		Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter as Éric
1952		The Girl with the Whip as Borgo
1952		Si ça vous chante

1951		Adventures of Captain Fabian as Emile
1951		Hotbed of Sin as Charles

1950		Black Jack as Schooner Captain
1950		The Elusive Pimpernel as Comte de Tournai
1950		Secret Document: Vienna as Colonel von Pennwitz

1949		The Inn of Sin as Ducourt
1949		The Man on the Eiffel Tower as Inspector (uncredited)
1949		Du Guesclin as Lancaster
1949		The Silence of the Sea as Werner von Ebrennac

1948		Colonel Durand
1948		The Devil Who Limped as Lord Palmerston

1947		The Chips Are Down as Le chef milicien
1947		The Royalists as Captain Gérard
1947		Sky Battalion as German officer (uncredited)

1946		Devil and the Angel as Furet henchman
1946		Alert Nights as English aviator
1946		The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic as (uncredited)
1946		Mr. Orchid as German Lieutenant Fleischer
1946		Clandestine
1946		A Friend Will Come Tonight as Robert Langlois, le muet
1946		Behind These Walls as German officer (uncredited)

1945

Angel and Sinner as Prussian officer in Uville (uncredited)

Camera

1974		Lorna, the Exorcist as Still Photographer
1974		Fifteen Year Old Captain as Still Photographer
1974		How to Seduce a Virgin as Still Photographer
1974		Les Gloutonnes as Still Photographer

1968

Succubus as Still Photographer