Howard Vernon

Swiss actor

Howard Vernon
Born
Mario Walter Lippert

(1908-07-15)15 July 1908
Baden-Baden, German Empire
Died25 July 1996(1996-07-25) (aged 88)
Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
OccupationActor
Years active1939–1996

Howard Vernon (15 July 1908 – 25 July 1996), born Mario Walter Lippert, was a 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.[1][2]

Biography

Vernon was born Mario Lippert in Baden-Baden, Germany, to a Swiss father and a German mother.[1] Originally a stage and radio actor, he played Nazi officers, gangsters and psychopaths in French and American films after World War II.[1] 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.[3] He died in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 10 days after his 88th birthday.[1]

Selected filmography

  • Boule de Suif (1945) .... Un Prussien (uncredited)
  • Jericho (1946) .... Un officier allemand (uncredited)
  • A Friend Will Come Tonight (1946) .... Robert Langlois, le muet
  • Les clandestins (1946)
  • L'insaisissable Frédéric (1946) .... (uncredited)
  • Night Warning (1946) .... L'aviateur anglais
  • Mr. Orchid (1946) .... Le lieutenant Fleischer, l'officier allemand
  • Devil and the Angel (1946) .... Un Homme de Main de Furet
  • The Royalists (1947) .... Le capitaine Gérard
  • Le Bataillon du ciel (1947) .... Un officier allemand (uncredited)
  • The Die Is Cast (aka "The Chips Are Down") (1947) .... Le chef milicien
  • Le colonel Durand (1948)
  • The Lame Devil (1948, director: Sacha Guitry) .... Lord Palmerston
  • Le Silence de la mer (1949, director: Jean-Pierre Melville) .... Werner von Ebrennac
  • Du Guesclin (1949) .... Lancaster
  • The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) .... Inspector (uncredited)
  • L'auberge du péché (1949) .... Ducourt
  • Shot at Dawn (1950) .... Colonel von Pennwitz
  • The Fighting Pimpernel (1950) .... Comte de Tournai
  • Black Jack (1950) .... Schooner Captain
  • Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951) .... Emile
  • Nightclub (1951) .... Charles
  • Si ça vous chante (1951)
  • The Secret of the Mountain Lake (1952) .... Borgo, der Schmugglerwirt
  • The Girl with the Whip (1952) .... Borgo
  • Manina, the Girl in the Bikini (1952) .... Éric
  • La môme vert-de-gris / Poison Ivy (1953) .... Rudy Saltierra
  • Monsieur Scrupule, Gangster (1953) .... L'ami de Rolande
  • Little Jacques (1953) .... Daniel Mortal
  • Lucrèce Borgia (1953) .... Le chapelain
  • Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954) .... L'acheteur anglais (uncredited)
  • Operation Thunder (1954) .... Roger Kervec
  • The Phantom of the Big Tent (1954) .... Armand LaRue, König der Luft
  • Napoléon (1955) .... Lord Liverpool (uncredited)
  • Pas de souris dans le business (1955) .... Robert Leperque
  • El fugitivo de Amberes (1955, director: Miguel Iglesias) .... Bell Fermer
  • 08/15 at Home [de] (1955) .... CIC-Offizier Ted
  • Alerte aux Canaries (1956) .... Maxime Bellac
  • Bob le Flambeur (1956) .... McKimmie - le commanditaire
  • La melodía misteriosa (1956) .... L'inspecteur de police Revel
  • The River of Three Junks (1957) .... Igor Kourguine
  • Until the Last One (1957) .... Philippe Dario - le trapéziste
  • Doctor Crippen Lives (1958)
  • Pensione Edelweiss (1959) .... Général Funck
  • Heiße Ware (1959) .... Heinrich Strasser
  • Nathalie, Secret Agent (1959).... William Dantoren
  • Muerte al amanecer (1959)
  • Une gueule comme la mienne (1960) .... Howard
  • The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960, director: Fritz Lang) .... No. 12
  • Brandenburg Division (1960) .... Secret Service Man
  • Interpol Against X (1960) .... L'inspecteur Jackson
  • The Secret Ways (1961) .... Colonel Hidas
  • Léon Morin, Priest (1961) .... The colonel
  • Capitaine tempête (1961)
  • First Criminal Brigade (1962) .... Steven Hals
  • The Awful Dr. Orloff / Screams in the Night/ Gritos en la Noche/ L'Horrible Docteur Orloff (1962, director: Jesús Franco) .... Dr. Orloff
  • Zorro the Avenger (1962) .... General Clarence
  • Han matado a un cadáver (1962) .... Inspector Bernhardt
  • Shades of Zorro (1962) .... El General
  • La mano de un hombre muerto/ The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus (1962) .... Baron Max von Klaus
  • Vice and Virtue (1963) .... SS General
  • Autopsy of a Criminal (1963) .... Villar
  • Black Angel of the Mississippi (1964) .... Ray Terris
  • The Train (1964, director: John Frankenheimer) .... Dietrich
  • On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (1964)
  • Alphaville (aka "Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution") (1965, director: Jean-Luc Godard) .... Prof. Leonard Nosferatu aka von Braun (uncredited)
  • What's New Pussycat? (1965, director: Clive Donner) .... Doctor
  • Taiwo Shango - Der zweite Tag nach dem Tod (1965) ... Dr. Brian Murray
  • Train d'enfer (1965, director: Gilles Grangier) .... Le 'professeur'
  • The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966) .... Dr. Pineau
  • The Game Is Over (1966) .... Lawyer
  • The Diabolical Dr. Z / Miss Muerte / Miss Death (1966, director: Jesús Franco) .... Dr. Vicas
  • Le chien fou (1966) .... Fred
  • Triple Cross (1966) .... German Embassy Official
  • Residencia para espías/ Residence for Spies (1966) .... Radek (uncredited cameo)
  • The Unknown Man of Shandigor (1967) .... Yank / Bobby Gun
  • The Night of the Generals (1967) .... Herr Schusslig, Suspect in Erika Müller's Murder (uncredited)
  • Only a Coffin (1967) .... Dam Gaillimh
  • Les têtes brûlées (1967)
  • Necronomicon: Dreamt Sin / Succubus (1967, director: Jesús Franco) .... Admiral Kapp
  • Im Schloß der blutigen Begierde (1968) .... Graf Saxon
  • Mayerling (1968) .... Prince Montenuevo (uncredited)
  • Marquis de Sade's Justine / Deadly Sanctuary (1969, director: Jesús Franco) .... Clément
  • The Bloody Judge / Throne of Fire/ The Witch Killer of Blackmoor (1970, director: Jesús Franco) .... Jack Ketch
  • The Blood Rose / Le Rose Eschorchée / The Flayed Rose (1970, director: Claude Mulot) .... Professeur Römer
  • Orloff and the Invisible Man (1970, director: Pierre Chevalier) .... Le professeur Orloff
  • Love Me Strangely (1971) .... Maître Wasserman - l'administrateur de biens
  • The Devil Came from Akasava (1971, director: Jesús Franco) .... Valet Humphrey
  • X312 - Flight to Hell [de] / X 312 – Flug zur Hölle (1971, director: Jesus Franco) .... Pedro
  • She Killed in Ecstasy / Mrs. Hyde (1971, director: Jesús Franco) .... Prof. Jonathan Walker
  • Jungfrauen-Report/ Virgin Report (1972) .... Medieval de-fliowerer / Anna's Father / The Inquisitor
  • Sex Charade (1972) unreleased
  • Casa d'appuntamento (1972) .... Professor Waldemar
  • Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972, director: Jesús Franco) .... Drácula
  • Robinson und seine wilden Sklavinnen/ Three Naked Women on Robinson Island (1972) .... Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant
  • Daughter of Dracula (1972, director: Jesús Franco) .... Count Karlstein / Dracula
  • Les ebranlées/ House of Vice (1972) .... Al Pereira
  • The Demons (1973, director: Jesús Franco) .... Lord Malcolm De Winter
  • The Day of the Jackal (1973) .... Cabinet Member (uncredited)
  • The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein / The Curse of Frankenstein / La Maldicion de Frankenstein (1973, director: Jesús Franco) .... Cagliostro
  • Le journal intime d'une nymphomane (1973) .... Doctor
  • Lovers of Devil's Island (1973, director: Jesús Franco) .... Colonel Ford
  • A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973) / Christina, Princess of Eroticism (1971, director: Jesús Franco) .... Uncle Howard
  • Al otro lado del espejo / The Other Side of the Mirror (1973) .... Howard / Anetta's father
  • Un capitán de quince años / A Captain of 15 Years (1974) .... Korda
  • Plaisir à trois/ How to Seduce a Virgin (1974) .... Mathias
  • Celestine, Maid at Your Service (1974) .... Le duc
  • Lorna the Exorcist (1974, director: Jesús Franco) .... Maurizius
  • La Comtesse Perverse (1974, director: Jesús Franco) .... Count Rador
  • Les gloutonnes (1975) .... Cagliostro
  • That Most Important Thing: Love (1975) .... (voice, uncredited)
  • Les intrigues de Sylvia Couski (1975)
  • Le jardin qui bascule (1975) .... Paul
  • Love and Death (1975, director: Woody Allen) .... General Leveque
  • Change pas de main (1975) .... Jacques des Grieux
  • The Mark of Zorro (1975) .... Gov. Hayes
  • The Musician Killer (1976) .... Anton Varga
  • Seven Women for Satan (1976) .... Karl, Zaroff's servant
  • Le théâtre des matières (1977) .... Hermann
  • Women in Cellblock 9 (1978) .... Dr. Milton
  • Les belles manières (1978) .... Le directeur de la prison
  • From Hell to Victory (1979) .... SS Major Karl
  • Zombie Lake / Le Lac des Morts Vivants / Lake of the Living Dead (1981, director: Jean Rollin) .... The Mayor
  • Docteur Jekyll et les femmes (1981) .... Dr. Lanyon
  • L'appât du gain (1981)
  • Revenge in the House of Usher / Neurosis (1982, director: Jesús Franco) .... René Dimanche
  • Revenge in the House of Usher (1983) .... Eric Usher
  • Sangre en mis zapatos/ Blood on my Shoes (1983) .... Profesor Albert Von Klaus
  • Ogroff (1983) .... Vampire
  • Le fou du roi (1984) .... Abbé guibourd
  • The Sinister Dr. Orloff (1984, director: Jesús Franco) .... Dr. Orloff
  • All Mixed Up (1985) .... Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique
  • The Boy Who Had Everything (1985) .... Singing Man
  • Viaje a Bangkok, ataúd incluido (1985) .... Coronel Daniel J. Blimp
  • El hombre que mató a Mengele (1985)
  • Faubourg St Martin (1986) .... Le Clients Grincheux
  • Las tribulaciones de un Buda Bizco (1986)
  • Terminus (1987) .... Monsieur (voice)
  • The Death of Empedocles (1987) .... Hermokrates
  • Commando Mengele (1987) .... Josef Mengele
  • Dernier été à Tanger (1987) .... Maître Schmidt, un avocat suisse
  • Faceless / Predators of the Night (1987, director: Jesús Franco) .... Docteur Orloff
  • Howl of the Devil (1987, director: Paul Naschy) .... Eric
  • Black Sin (1989, Short) .... Manes
  • Le champignon des Carpathes (1990) .... Jeremy Fairfax
  • In the Eye of the Snake (1990) .... Old Jean
  • Delicatessen (1991, director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet) .... Frog Man
  • The Girl Who Came Late (1992) .... Dr. Montgomery
  • Faux rapports (1992) .... Garnier
  • Hey Stranger (1994) .... Old officer
  • Le Rocher d'Acapulco (1995) .... Le vieil homme
  • Le complexe de Toulon (1996) .... Charles Toulon
  • Banqueroute (2000) .... Georges (final film role)

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Howard Vernon". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (in German). Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Howard Vernon". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
  3. ^ Thrower, Stephen; Grainger, Julian (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. Strange Attractor Press.

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