Howard Vernon
Acting
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Acting Credits
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
Filmography
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
1999
as Cagliostro
The Complex of Toulon
1996
as Charles Toulon
The Rock of Acapulco
1996
as Le vieil homme
Hey Stranger
1994
as Old officer
Jungle of Fear
1993
Delicatessen
1991
as Frog Man
The Carpathian Mushroom
1990
as Jeremy Fairfax
Black Sin
1989
as Manes
Faceless
1988
as Dr. Orloff
Hommage à Vernon
1988
as Self (archive footage)
The Howl of the Devil
1988
as Eric
Terminus
1987
as Monsieur (voice)
The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil'
1987
as Self
The Death of Empedocles
1987
as Hermokrates
Angel of Death
1985
as Josef Mengele
All Mixed Up
1985
as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included
1985
as Coronel Daniel J. Blimp
The Sinister Doctor Orloff
1984
as Dr. Orloff
Le fou du roi
1984
as Abbot Guibourd
Revenge in the House of Usher
1983
as Roderic Usher
Ogroff
1983
as Vampire
Blood on My Shoes
1983
as Albert von Klaus
Far from Manhattan
1982
as René Dimanche
Deadline
1982
as Doorman
Zombie Lake
1981
as The Mayor
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981
as Dr. Lanyon
From Hell to Victory
1979
as SS Major Karl
The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner
1979
as Self
Women in Cellblock 9
1978
as Dr. Milton Costa
The Theatre of the Matters
1977
as Hermann
The Musician Killer
1976
as Anton Varga
Countess Perverse
1975
as Count Rabor Zaroff
The Mark of Zorro
1975
as Governor Hayes
Love and Death
1975
as General Leveque
The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
1975
Don't Change Hands
1975
as Jacques des Grieux
Seven Women for Satan
1975
as Karl, Zaroff's servant
The Garden That Tilts
1975
as Paul
The Greedy Ones
1974
as Cagliostro
Celestine
1974
as Grandfather
How to Seduce a Virgin
1974
as Mathias
Lorna, the Exorcist
1974
as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
1973
as Cagliostro
The Demons
1973
as Lord Malcolm De Winter
The Other Side of the Mirror
1973
as Ana's Father
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
1973
as Le docteur
Lovers of Devil's Island
1973
as Colonel Ford
Dolls for Sale
1973
as Al Pereira
Fifteen Year Old Captain
1973
as Korda
The Day of the Jackal
1973
as Cabinet Member
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
1973
as Uncle Howard
Nightmares Come at Night
1973
as Howard
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
1972
as Dracula
The French Sex Murders
1972
as Professor Waldemar
Virgin Report
1972
as Anna's Father / The Inquisitor
Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
1972
as Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant
Daughter of Dracula
1972
as Count Karlstein / Dracula
The Devil Came from Akasava
1971
as Valet Humphrey
She Killed in Ecstasy
1971
as Prof. Jonathan Walker
Love Me Strangely
1971
as Maître Wasserman, property administrator
X312 - Flight to Hell
1971
as Pedro
Graf Luckner
1971
as Mercer
Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur
1971
as Sir Horace Mill
The Invisible Man's Love Life
1970
as Professor Orloff
The Bloody Judge
1970
as Jack Ketch
The Blood Rose
1970
as Professeur Römer
Ce que cherche Jacques
1970
as Jacques
Marquis de Sade: Justine
1969
as Clément
Castle of the Creeping Flesh
1968
as Graf Saxon
Succubus
1968
as Admiral Kapp
Mayerling
1968
as Prince of Montenuovo
Residence for Spies
1968
as Radek (uncredited)
The Night of the Generals
1967
as Murder Suspect (uncredited)
The Orgies of Dr. Orloff
1967
as Dam Gaillimh
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
1967
as Bobby Gun
The Dinosaur and the Baby
1967
as Self
The Hotheads
1967
as Mr. Gorsi, The Boss.
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
1967
as Ricardo Solesta
The Diabolical Dr. Z
1966
as Dr. Vicas
The Game Is Over
1966
as Lawyer
The Mad Dog
1966
as Fred
Triple Cross
1966
as German Embassy Official
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966
as Dr. Pineau
What's New Pussycat?
1965
as Doctor
Operation Double Cross
1965
as The 'professor'
Taiwo Shango oder: Der zweite Tag nach dem Tod
1965
as Dr. Brian
Alphaville
1965
as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
The Train
1964
as Dietrich
Black Angel of the Mississippi
1964
as Ray Terris
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
1964
Un cas intéressant
1963
as Pr. Schroeder
Vice and Virtue
1963
as S.S. General
Autopsia de un criminal
1963
The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
1962
as Max von Klaus
Zorro the Avenger
1962
as The General Clarence
The Awful Dr. Orlof
1962
as Dr. Orloff
The Shadow of Zorro
1962
as El General (credit only)
The Secret Ways
1961
as Colonel Hidas
The Sword of Vengeance
1961
Léon Morin, Priest
1961
as Colonel
Première brigade criminelle
1961
as Steven Hals
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
1960
as No. 12
Dossier AST-555
1960
as Inspector Jackson
Rendezvous
1960
as Howard
Death at Dawn
1960
Description of a Struggle
1960
as Narrator (German version)
Pensione Edelweiss
1959
as Général Funck
Atomic Agent
1959
as William Dantoren
Heiße Ware
1959
as Heinrich Strasser
Doctor Crippen Lives
1958
The River of Three Junks
1957
as Igor Kourguine
Weekend
1957
as Richard Greatham
Until the Last One
1957
as Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist
Bob le Flambeur
1956
as McKimmie, the Sponsor
Alert in the Canary Islands
1956
as Maxime Bellac
Das Abschiedsgeschenk
1956
as Andrew Crocker-Harris
The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent
1956
as Inspector Revel
Operation Thunder
1956
as Roger Kervec
Pas de souris dans le business
1955
as Robert Leperque
08/15 at Home
1955
as CIC-Offizier Ted
Der grüne Kakadu
1955
as Henri
Gottes Utopia
1955
as Paco Hernandes
El fugitivo de Amberes
1955
as Bell Fermer
Phantom of the Big Tent
1954
as Armand LaRue, König der Luft
Poison Ivy
1953
as Rudy Saltierra
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953
as English buyer
Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
1953
as Rolande's friend
Le Petit Jacques
1953
as Daniel Mortal
Lucrèce Borgia
1953
as The chaplain
Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter
1952
as Éric
Si ça vous chante
1952
The Girl with the Whip
1952
as Borgo
Hotbed of Sin
1951
as Charles
Adventures of Captain Fabian
1951
as Emile
Secret Document: Vienna
1950
as Colonel von Pennwitz
Black Jack
1950
as Schooner Captain
The Elusive Pimpernel
1950
as Comte de Tournai
The Silence of the Sea
1949
as Werner von Ebrennac
The Inn of Sin
1949
as Ducourt
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
1949
as Inspector (uncredited)
Du Guesclin
1949
as Lancaster
Colonel Durand
1948
The Devil Who Limped
1948
as Lord Palmerston
Sky Battalion
1947
as German officer (uncredited)
The Royalists
1947
as Captain Gérard
The Chips Are Down
1947
as Le chef milicien
Behind These Walls
1946
as German officer (uncredited)
Clandestine
1946
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
1946
as (uncredited)
Alert Nights
1946
as English aviator
Mr. Orchid
1946
as German Lieutenant Fleischer
Devil and the Angel
1946
as Furet henchman
A Friend Will Come Tonight
1946
as Robert Langlois, le muet
Angel and Sinner
1945
as Prussian officer in Uville (uncredited)