Howard Vernon
Known For
Acting
Born
1908-07-15 in Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]
Died
1996-07-25
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
Most Known For
The Day of the Jackal
as Cabinet Member
Mayerling
as Prince of Montenuovo
Angel of Death
as Josef Mengele
Graf Luckner
as Mercer
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
as Ricardo Solesta
Dolls for Sale
as Al Pereira
Léon Morin, Priest
as Colonel
Hey Stranger
as Old officer
The Train
as Dietrich
Delicatessen
as Frog Man
The Night of the Generals
as Murder Suspect (uncredited)
The Girl with the Whip
as Borgo
Alphaville
as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
as Rolande's friend
Marquis de Sade: Justine
as Clément
Lucrèce Borgia
as The chaplain
What's New Pussycat?
as Doctor
Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur
as Sir Horace Mill
Love and Death
as General Leveque
Das Abschiedsgeschenk
as Andrew Crocker-Harris