Howard Vernon - Movies, Bio & Filmography

Meet Howard Vernon

★ Acting🎥 153 films📺 3 TV shows📅 1945–1999🔥 1

Also known as: Mario Lippert, Mario Lipert, Mario Walter Lippert, Howard Wernon

Born in Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]

1908-07-15 (age 88 at death)

Died 1996-07-25

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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Mario Walter Lippert (15 July 1908 – 25 July 1996), better known by his stage name Howard Vernon, was a Swiss-German actor and photographer. He had an extensive career in French cinema which spanned nearly 200 productions over 55 years, between 1945 and 2000. He was best known for his close association with cult filmmaker Jesús Franco, appearing in 40 of the director’s films, beginning with the titular character in The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962). 
A prolific character actor, Vernon also worked with many other prominent filmmakers, notably Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, René Clément, Powell & Pressburger, Sacha Guitry, Fritz Lang, John Frankenheimer, Roger Vadim, Fred Zinnemann, Woody Allen and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He was also active as a dubber.
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