Howard Vernon

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
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1908-07-15 · Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]
- Died
- 1996-07-25
Known for
- Delicatessen (1991) — Frog Man
- Love and Death (1975) — General Leveque
- The Day of the Jackal (1973) — Cabinet Member
- Alphaville (1965) — Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
- The Train (1964) — Dietrich
- Bob le Flambeur (1956) — McKimmie, the Sponsor
- The Night of the Generals (1967) — Murder Suspect (uncredited)
- What's New Pussycat? (1965) — Doctor
- Léon Morin, Priest (1961) — Colonel
- The Silence of the Sea (1949) — Werner von Ebrennac
- The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960) — No. 12
- Triple Cross (1966) — German Embassy Official
- A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973) — Uncle Howard
- Zombie Lake (1981) — The Mayor
- Faceless (1988) — Dr. Orloff
- Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969) — Clément