Howard Vernon
Actor
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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Filmography
Love and Death
as General Leveque 1975
The Day of the Jackal
as Cabinet Member 1973
Alphaville
as Léonard von Braun (uncredited) 1965
The Train
as Dietrich 1964
Bob le Flambeur
as McKimmie, the Sponsor 1956
The Night of the Generals
as Murder Suspect (uncredited) 1967
What's New Pussycat?
as Doctor 1965
Léon Morin, Priest
as Colonel 1961
The Silence of the Sea
as Werner von Ebrennac 1949
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
as No. 12 1960
Triple Cross
as German Embassy Official 1966
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
as Uncle Howard 1973
Zombie Lake
as The Mayor 1981
Marquis de Sade: Justine
as Clément 1969
Faceless
as Dr. Orloff 1988
The Bloody Judge
as Jack Ketch 1970