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.
Biography
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 Amrican films after World War II. In the 1960s, he became a favorite 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.
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 Fusillé à l'aube (1950) .... Colonel von Pennwitz The Fighting Pimpernel (1950) .... Comte de Tournai Black Jack (1950) .... Schooner Captain Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951) .... Emile Boîte de nuit (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) Opération Tonnerre (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 (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) ....