Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 15, 1908
Place of Birth
Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]
Also Known As
- Mario Lippert
- Mario Lipert
- Mario Walter Lippert
- Howard Wernon
Howard Vernon
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 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.
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Known For - Movies
The Day of the Jackal
as Cabinet Member
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
as Dr. Lanyon
Delicatessen
as Frog Man
What's New Pussycat?
as Doctor
The Train
as Dietrich
Love and Death
as General Leveque
Women in Cellblock 9
as Dr. Milton Costa
The Night of the Generals
as Murder Suspect (uncredited)
Royal Affairs in Versailles
as English buyer
Triple Cross
as German Embassy Official
