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Howard Vernon

Acting

Born July 15, 1908 · Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]

Died July 25, 1996

Also known as Mario Lippert · Mario Lipert · Mario Walter Lippert

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

Filmography32 titles

The Train

1964as Dietrich

Love and Death

1975as General Leveque

The Day of the Jackal

1973as Cabinet Member

The Silence of the Sea

1949as Werner von Ebrennac

Delicatessen

1991as Frog Man

Bob le Flambeur

1956as McKimmie, the Sponsor

Léon Morin, Priest

1961as Colonel

Alphaville

1965as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)

The Night of the Generals

1967as Murder Suspect (uncredited)

The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

1960as No. 12

Shades of Zorro

1962as El General (credit only)

Triple Cross

1966as German Embassy Official

Poison Ivy

1953as Rudy Saltierra

What's New Pussycat

1965as Doctor

The Unknown Man of Shandigor

1967as Bobby Gun

The Awful Dr. Orlof

1962as Dr. Orloff

The Diabolical Dr. Z

1966as Dr. Vicas

Vice and Virtue

1963as S.S. General

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne

1981as Dr. Lanyon

Succubus

1968as Admiral Kapp

Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter

1952as Éric

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

1949as Inspector (uncredited)

The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein

1973as Cagliostro

The Bloody Judge

1970as Jack Ketch

Marquis de Sade's Justine

1969as Clément

The French Sex Murders

1972as Professor Waldemar

Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein

1972as Dracula

Castle of the Creeping Flesh

1968as Graf Saxon

Terminus

1987as Monsieur (voice)

The Mark of Zorro

1975as Governor Hayes

Daughter of Dracula

1972as Count Karlstein / Dracula

Zombie Lake

1981as The Mayor