Howard Vernon
Acting
- Born:
- 1908-07-15
- Died:
- 1996-07-25
- Place of birth:
- Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]
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
Known For
Filmography
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
The Rock of Acapulco
The Complex of Toulon
Hey Stranger
Jungle of Fear
Delicatessen
The Carpathian Mushroom
Black Sin
Hommage à Vernon
Faceless
Howl of the Devil
The Death of Empedocles
Terminus
The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil'
Angel of Death
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included
All Mixed Up
The Sinister Doctor Orloff
Le fou du roi
Revenge in the House of Usher
Ogroff
Blood on My Shoes
Far from Manhattan
Deadline
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Zombie Lake
The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner
From Hell to Victory
Women in Cellblock 9
The Theatre of the Matters
The Musician Killer
Countess Perverse
Seven Women for Satan
Don't Change Hands
Love and Death
The Garden That Tilts
The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
The Mark of Zorro
Lorna, the Exorcist
Celestine
How to Seduce a Virgin
The Greedy Ones
Dolls for Sale
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
Lovers of Devil's Island
The Other Side of the Mirror
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
Fifteen Year Old Captain
The Day of the Jackal
The Demons
Nightmares Come at Night
Daughter of Dracula
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
The French Sex Murders
Virgin Report
Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur
She Killed in Ecstasy
X312 - Flight to Hell