Howard Vernon | |
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| Born | Mario Walter Lippert 15 July 1908 Baden-Baden, German Empire |
| Died | 25 July 1996 (aged 88) Issy-les-Moulineaux, France |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1939–1996 |
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 favorite 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
- 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)
- 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 (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 / 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 2 3 4 "Howard Vernon". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (in German). Retrieved 20 October 2023.
- ↑ "Howard Vernon". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
- ↑ Thrower, Stephen; Grainger, Julian (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. Strange Attractor Press.
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