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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The roles that explain the career.
80 credits across 2 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell | Cagliostro | Film |
| 1996 | The Rock of Acapulco | Le vieil homme | Film |
| 1991 | Delicatessen | Frog Man | Film |
| 1988 | Faceless | Dr. Orloff | Film |
| 1988 | The Howl of the Devil | Eric | Film |
| 1987 | Terminus | Monsieur (voice) | Film |
| 1987 | The Death of Empedocles | Hermokrates | Film |
| 1985 | Angel of Death | Josef Mengele | Film |
| 1985 | All Mixed Up | Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique | Film |
| 1984 | The Sinister Doctor Orloff | Dr. Orloff | Film |
| 1983 | Revenge in the House of Usher | Roderic Usher | Film |
| 1983 | Ogroff | Vampire | Film |
| 1982 | Far from Manhattan | René Dimanche | Film |
| 1981 | Zombie Lake | The Mayor | Film |
| 1981 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne | Dr. Lanyon | Film |
| 1979 | From Hell to Victory | SS Major Karl | Film |
| 1978 | Women in Cellblock 9 | Dr. Milton Costa | Film |
| 1976 | The Musician Killer | Anton Varga | Film |
| 1975 | Seven Women for Satan | Karl, Zaroff's servant | Film |
| 1975 | The Garden That Tilts | Paul | Film |
| 1975 | Countess Perverse | Count Rabor Zaroff | Film |
| 1975 | The Mark of Zorro | Governor Hayes | Film |
| 1974 | The Greedy Ones | Cagliostro | Film |
| 1974 | How to Seduce a Virgin | Mathias | Film |
| 1974 | Lorna, the Exorcist | Maurizius (Lornas Butler) | Film |
| 1974 | Celestine | Grandfather | Film |
| 1973 | Nightmares Come at Night | Howard | Film |
| 1973 | Lovers of Devil's Island | Colonel Ford | Film |
| 1973 | A Virgin Among the Living Dead | Uncle Howard | Film |
| 1973 | The Demons | Lord Malcolm De Winter | Film |
| 1973 | The Other Side of the Mirror | Ana's Father | Film |
| 1973 | The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein | Cagliostro | Film |
| 1973 | Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac | Le docteur | Film |
| 1972 | Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves | Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant | Film |
| 1972 | Virgin Report | Anna's Father / The Inquisitor | Film |
| 1972 | Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein | Dracula | Film |
| 1972 | Daughter of Dracula | Count Karlstein / Dracula | Film |
| 1972 | The French Sex Murders | Professor Waldemar | Film |
| 1971 | The Devil Came from Akasava | Valet Humphrey | Film |
| 1971 | X312 - Flight to Hell | Pedro | Film |
| 1971 | She Killed in Ecstasy | Prof. Jonathan Walker | Film |
| 1971 | Love Me Strangely | Maître Wasserman, property administrator | Film |
| 1970 | The Invisible Man's Love Life | Professor Orloff | Film |
| 1970 | The Bloody Judge | Jack Ketch | Film |
| 1970 | The Blood Rose | Professeur Römer | Film |
| 1969 | Marquis de Sade: Justine | Clément | Film |
| 1968 | Castle of the Creeping Flesh | Graf Saxon | Film |
| 1968 | Succubus | Admiral Kapp | Film |
| 1968 | Mayerling | Prince of Montenuovo | Film |
| 1968 | Residence for Spies | Radek (uncredited) | Film |
| 1967 | The Unknown Man of Shandigor | Bobby Gun | Film |
| 1966 | The Poppy Is Also a Flower | Dr. Pineau | Film |
| 1966 | The Diabolical Dr. Z | Dr. Vicas | Film |
| 1966 | The Game Is Over | Lawyer | Film |
| 1965 | Operation Double Cross | The 'professor' | Film |
| 1965 | What's New Pussycat? | Doctor | Film |
| 1965 | Alphaville | Léonard von Braun (uncredited) | Film |
| 1962 | The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus | Max von Klaus | Film |
| 1962 | The Awful Dr. Orlof | Dr. Orloff | Film |
| 1962 | The Shadow of Zorro | El General (credit only) | Film |
| 1961 | The Secret Ways | Colonel Hidas | Film |
| 1961 | Léon Morin, Priest | Colonel | Film |
| 1961 | The Sword of Vengeance | Film | |
| 1960 | The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse | No. 12 | Film |
| 1960 | Description of a Struggle | Narrator (German version) | Film |
| 1959 | Pensione Edelweiss | Général Funck | Film |
| 1959 | Atomic Agent | William Dantoren | Film |
| 1957 | Until the Last One | Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist | Film |
| 1956 | Bob le Flambeur | McKimmie, the Sponsor | Film |
| 1955 | 08/15 at Home | CIC-Offizier Ted | Film |
| 1953 | Lucrèce Borgia | The chaplain | Film |
| 1953 | Poison Ivy | Rudy Saltierra | Film |
| 1952 | Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter | Éric | Film |
| 1951 | Adventures of Captain Fabian | Emile | Film |
| 1950 | The Elusive Pimpernel | Comte de Tournai | Film |
| 1949 | Du Guesclin | Lancaster | Film |
| 1949 | The Man on the Eiffel Tower | Inspector (uncredited) | Film |
| 1949 | The Silence of the Sea | Werner von Ebrennac | Film |
| 1948 | The Devil Who Limped | Lord Palmerston | Film |
| 1947 | The Chips Are Down | Le chef milicien | Film |
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