Howard Vernon

ActorCinematographer Jul 15 (died age 88) Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany] 1945–1999 (54 year career)

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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 a…

Known For

Film

Delicatessen

Frog Man

Film

Love and Death

General Leveque

Film

The Day of the Jackal

Cabinet Member

Film

The Train

Dietrich

Film

Alphaville

Léonard von Braun (uncredited)

Film

Bob le Flambeur

McKimmie, the Sponsor

Film

Le Silence de la mer

Werner von Ebrennac

Film

Léon Morin, Priest

Colonel

Filmography

Acting (155)

Movies (152)

Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell

1999

as Cagliostro

1.3

The Complex of Toulon

as Charles Toulon

The Rock of Acapulco

as Le vieil homme

Hey Stranger

as Old officer

Jungle of Fear

Delicatessen

as Frog Man

The Carpathian Mushroom

as Jeremy Fairfax

Black Sin

as Manes

Hommage à Vernon

as Self (archive footage)

Faceless

1988

as Dr. Orloff

5.7

The Howl of the Devil

1988

as Eric

5.0

The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil'

1987

as Self

Terminus

1987

as Monsieur (voice)

3.9

The Death of Empedocles

as Hermokrates

Angel of Death

as Josef Mengele

All Mixed Up

as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique

5.2

Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included

1985

as Coronel Daniel J. Blimp

5.0

The Sinister Doctor Orloff

as Dr. Orloff

Le fou du roi

as Abbot Guibourd

Revenge in the House of Usher

as Roderic Usher

Ogroff

as Vampire

Blood on My Shoes

as Albert von Klaus

Far from Manhattan

as René Dimanche

Deadline

as Doorman

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne

as Dr. Lanyon

Zombie Lake

as The Mayor

From Hell to Victory

as SS Major Karl

The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner

1979

as Self

Women in Cellblock 9

1978

as Dr. Milton

4.8

The Theatre of the Matters

as Hermann

The Musician Killer

as Anton Varga

Love and Death

as General Leveque

The Mark of Zorro

as Governor Hayes

Seven Women for Satan

1975

as Karl, Zaroff's servant

3.5

The Adventures of Sylvia Couski

1975

3.9

Countess Perverse

1975

as Count Rabor Zaroff

4.4

The Garden That Tilts

1975

as Paul

6.7

Fifteen Year Old Captain

as Korda

The Greedy Ones

as Cagliostro

Celestine

as Grandfather

Lorna, the Exorcist

as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)

4.8

How to Seduce a Virgin

1974

as Mathias

4.9

The Day of the Jackal

1973

as Cabinet Member

7.5

The Other Side of the Mirror

1973

as Ana's Father

5.1

The Demons

1973

as Lord Malcolm De Winter

5.3

Dolls for Sale

1973

as Al Pereira

4.4

A Virgin Among the Living Dead

1973

as Uncle Howard

4.8

Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac

1973

as Le docteur

5.2

The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein

1973

as Cagliostro

5.0

Lovers of Devil's Island

1973

as Colonel Ford

4.9

Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein

1972

as Dracula

4.8

The French Sex Murders

1972

as Professor Waldemar

4.7

Virgin Report

1972

as Anna's Father / The Inquisitor

3.7

Daughter of Dracula

1972

as Count Karlstein / Dracula

3.9

Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves

1972

as Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant

3.3

Sex Charade

1972

as General

Love Me Strangely

1971

as Maître Wasserman, property administrator

4.1

She Killed in Ecstasy

1971

as Prof. Jonathan Walker

5.1

X312 - Flight to Hell

1971

as Pedro

4.2

The Devil Came from Akasava

1971

as Valet Humphrey

4.5

Nightmares Come at Night

as Howard

The Blood Rose

as Professeur Römer

The Bloody Judge

as Jack Ketch

The Invisible Man's Love Life

1970

as Professor Orloff

3.2

Ce que cherche Jacques

1970

Marquis de Sade: Justine

1969

as Clément

5.0

Mayerling

1968

as Prince of Montenuovo

6.2

Succubus

1968

as Admiral Kapp

5.3

Castle of the Creeping Flesh

1968

as Graf Saxon

3.9

The Hotheads

1967

as Mr. Gorsi, The Boss.

6.0

The Night of the Generals

1967

as Murder Suspect (uncredited)

6.8

The Orgies of Dr. Orloff

1967

as Dam Gaillimh

3.2

The Dinosaur and the Baby

1967

as Self

6.0

The Unknown Man of Shandigor

as Yvan

The Diabolical Dr. Z

as Dr. Vicas

Triple Cross

as German Embassy Official

6.0

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

as Dr. Pineau

The Mad Dog

as Fred

The Game Is Over

as Lawyer

Residence for Spies

as Radek (uncredited)

4.5

Alphaville

1965

as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)

6.9

What's New Pussycat?

1965

as Doctor

6.0

Operation Double Cross

1965

as The 'professor'

3.0

Taiwo Shango oder: Der zweite Tag nach dem Tod

1965

as Dr. Brian

The Train

1964

as Dietrich

7.6

Black Angel of the Mississippi

1964

as Ray Terris

5.5

On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

1964

Un cas intéressant

1963

as Pr. Schroeder

Autopsia de un criminal

Vice and Virtue

as S.S. General

The Shadow of Zorro

as El General (credit only)

5.9

The Awful Dr. Orlof

1962

as Dr. Orloff

5.9

The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus

1962

as Max von Klaus

5.0

Zorro the Avenger

1962

as The General Clarence

7.0

The Secret Ways

1961

as Colonel Hidas

5.2

Première brigade criminelle

1961

as Steven Hals

Léon Morin, Priest

1961

as Colonel

7.1

The Sword of Vengeance

1961

4.0

The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

as No. 12

Death at Dawn

Dossier AST-555

as Inspector Jackson

Description of a Struggle

1960

as Narrator (German version)

Rendezvous

as Howard

Atomic Agent

as William Dantoren

Pensione Edelweiss

as Général Funck

Heiße Ware

as Heinrich Strasser

Doctor Crippen Lives

1958

5.7

The River of Three Junks

1957

as Igor Kourguine

1.0

Until the Last One

1957

as Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist

5.6

Weekend

1957

as Richard Greatham

The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent

1956

as Inspector Revel

6.3

Bob le Flambeur

1956

as McKimmie, the Sponsor

7.3

Das Abschiedsgeschenk

1956

as Andrew Crocker-Harris

Operation Thunder

1956

as Roger Kervec

Alert in the Canary Islands

1956

as Maxime Bellac

Pas de souris dans le business

1955

as Robert Leperque

Gottes Utopia

1955

as Paco Hernandes

Der grüne Kakadu

1955

as Henri

08/15 at Home

1955

as CIC-Offizier Ted

5.2

El fugitivo de Amberes

1955

as Bell Fermer

6.0

Phantom of the Big Tent

1954

as Armand LaRue, König der Luft

Royal Affairs in Versailles

1953

as English buyer

6.6

Le Petit Jacques

1953

as Daniel Mortal

Mr. Scrupule, Gangster

1953

as Rolande's friend

Lucrèce Borgia

as The chaplain

Poison Ivy

as Rudy Saltierra

Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter

1952

as Éric

5.3

Si ça vous chante

1952

The Girl with the Whip

1952

as Borgo

Adventures of Captain Fabian

1951

as Emile

5.2

Hotbed of Sin

1951

as Charles

Black Jack

1950

as Schooner Captain

5.8

The Elusive Pimpernel

1950

as Comte de Tournai

5.9

Secret Document: Vienna

1950

as Colonel von Pennwitz

The Man on the Eiffel Tower

1949

as Inspector (uncredited)

5.1

Le Silence de la mer

1949

as Werner von Ebrennac

Du Guesclin

as Lancaster

The Inn of Sin

as Ducourt

Colonel Durand

The Devil Who Limped

as Lord Palmerston

The Chips Are Down

as Le chef milicien

Sky Battalion

as German officer (uncredited)

6.0

The Royalists

1947

as Captain Gérard

6.8

A Friend Will Come Tonight

1946

as Robert Langlois, le muet

5.5

Clandestine

1946

Alert Nights

1946

as English aviator

Behind These Walls

1946

as German officer (uncredited)

5.8

Devil and the Angel

1946

as Furet henchman

5.4

The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic

1946

as (uncredited)

Mr. Orchid

1946

as German Lieutenant Fleischer

6.4

Angel and Sinner

1945

as Prussian officer in Uville (uncredited)

5.1

Opération Jericho

as Un soldat allemand

Television (3)

Graf Luckner

1971

as Mercer

Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur

1971

as Sir Horace Mill

8.0

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

1967

as Ricardo Solesta

6.1

Crew (6)

Movies (6)

Countess Perverse

1975

Still Photographer

4.4

Fifteen Year Old Captain

Still Photographer

The Greedy Ones

Still Photographer

Lorna, the Exorcist

Still Photographer

How to Seduce a Virgin

Still Photographer

Succubus

Still Photographer