Howard Vernon
Actor
- Born
- July 15, 1908 · Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]
- Died
- July 25, 1996 (age 88)
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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Known for
Delicatessen
April 17, 1991
Love and Death
June 10, 1975
The Day of the Jackal
May 16, 1973
Alphaville
May 5, 1965
The Train
September 24, 1964
Bob le Flambeur
August 24, 1956
The Night of the Generals
January 29, 1967
What's New Pussycat?
June 22, 1965
Léon Morin, Priest
September 22, 1961
The Silence of the Sea
April 22, 1949
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
September 14, 1960
Triple Cross
December 9, 1966
Acting152
- 1999Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell as Cagliostro
- 1996The Rock of Acapulco as Le vieil homme
- 1996The Complex of Toulon as Charles Toulon
- 1994Hey Stranger as Old officer
- 1993Jungle of Fear
- 1991Delicatessen as Frog Man
- 1990The Carpathian Mushroom as Jeremy Fairfax
- 1989Black Sin as Manes
- 1988Hommage à Vernon as Self (archive footage)
- 1988Faceless as Dr. Orloff