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Howard Vernon

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1908-07-15

Day of Death

1996-07-25

Place of Birth

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

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Vernon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography (152)

⭐ 2.1 Role: Cagliostro

Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell

1999
⭐ 5.5 Role: Le vieil homme

The Rock of Acapulco

1996
⭐ 6.2 Role: Charles Toulon

The Complex of Toulon

1996
⭐ 6.5 Role: Old officer

Hey Stranger

1994
No Image
⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Jungle of Fear

1993
⭐ 7.3 Role: Frog Man

Delicatessen

1991
⭐ 5.2 Role: Jeremy Fairfax

The Carpathian Mushroom

1990
⭐ 4.7 Role: Manes

Black Sin

1989
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⭐ 0 Role: Self (archive footage)

Hommage à Vernon

1988
⭐ 5.7 Role: Dr. Orloff

Faceless

1988
⭐ 5.1 Role: Eric

The Howl of the Devil

1988
⭐ 5.5 Role: Hermokrates

The Death of Empedocles

1987
⭐ 4.2 Role: Monsieur (voice)

Terminus

1987
No Image
⭐ 0 Role: Self

The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil'

1987
⭐ 4.3 Role: Josef Mengele

Angel of Death

1985