Personal Info
Birth date
1908-07-15 (117 Years)
Day of death
1996-07-25
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Vernon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
The Day of the Jackal
7.547
Overview:
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.Lucrèce Borgia
4.3
Overview:
In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister’s husband murdered. But without her brother’s knowledge, Lucrèce has taken a strong lover who will challenge the Borgias.Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
5.2
Overview:
Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and abuse at the hands of a succession of sleazy guys. Searching for love, she enters into a lesbian relationship with a beautiful countess, discovers drugs and swingers' parties and starts acting in porno movies. She also begins to write a secret diary...Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
6.1
Overview:
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.Delicatessen
7.293
Overview:
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.Marquis de Sade: Justine
5.1
Overview:
Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cope with an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who will claim not only her treasured virtue but also her life.X312 - Flight to Hell
4.3
Overview:
A plane leaving the turmoil of a South American country in the midst of a revolution crash-lands in the Amazon jungle in Brazil. Among the passengers are a corrupt banker who is smuggling diamonds out of the country, a reporter, a mysterious beauty and a shady flight attendant. The survivors find themselves up against not only the dangers of the jungle itself but a band of headhunters and a gang of revolutionaries who are looking for the smuggled diamonds.08/15 at Home
5.1
Overview:
The third part of Paul May′s "08/15" trilogy based on the novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst takes place shortly before the end of World War II: In the spring of 1945, the German troops are practically defeated, and the battalion of Kowalski, major general von Plönnies and Asch who had risen to the rank of lieutenant in the meantime is left to its own devices to a large extent. They hope to be able to wait for the end of the war without having to encounter any combat operations. At the same time, Asch tries to prevent high-level Nazi officers from disappearing unnoticed and from cashing in on the chaotic circumstances.Triple Cross
6
Overview:
Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An adept manipulator of situations, Chapman convinces the Germans to use him to spy on the British. And when the would-be traitor arrives home, he convinces the English to use him as a double agent -- in exchange for a full pardon.Doctor Crippen Lives
5.7
Overview:
Double murderer Dr. Crippen is using every means possible to search for a manuscript that he suspects is in the possession of the daughter of the man who was executed in his place.Love and Death
7.502
Overview:
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.The Shadow of Zorro
5.8
Overview:
A battle between revolutionary Mexicans and the U.S. cavalry brings Zorro onto the scene to enact vengeance for violent acts incurred by the cavalry Sergeant. Once the Sergeant is killed, Don Jose de la Torre retires from being Zorro and settles down to live a quiet life. The brother of the Sergeant, in an act of his own justice, dons the costume of Zorro and terrorizes the countryside. In an act to draw out the true Zorro, the imposter kidnaps Don Jose's wife, making him once again don the mask to rescue her.The Night of the Generals
6.8
Overview:
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.The Bloody Judge
4.949
Overview:
In 1685 England, an overzealous Lord Chancellor condemns various rebels and "witches" to satisfy his political and sexual whims, ignorant of the true consequences of his actions.Women in Cellblock 9
4.908
Overview:
A group of female freedom-fighters led by Karine Levere is caught by the warden of a women's prison, located somwhere in the South American jungle. None of them will reveal the secrets of their organisation or the names of their collaborators in the cities, so they are handed over to Dr. Costa who, after four years inactivity in Europe, is delighted to be able to practice his torture techniques once more. Laverne fails to resist the inhuman treatments and reveals all. The only hope of saving the organization is for the girls to warn the city cell before it's too late. They trick the prison guard into having sex with them, knock him out and break out of prison. The warden and Dr. Costa must prevent them from revealing the practices inside the prison. The hunt is on and it's shoot to kill...Autopsia de un criminal
5
Overview:
Carlos, a reckless card player burdened by debt, becomes involved in a shady affair when an old flame asks him to return a necklace he has pawned.The Blood Rose
5.7
Overview:
Frédéric Lansac, an artist and botanist, has a wild affair with party girl Moira, but throws her over when he meets the lovely Anne. Frédéric and Anne marry, but tragedy strikes when Moira shows up at the wedding party and makes a scene, causing Anne to fall into a bonfire. Frédéric and Anne lock themselves up in his mansion with his servants, a pair of mute dwarves. Anne, needless to say, becomes bitter and demanding. Frédéric tells everyone Anne has died, then on the sly, hires a nurse to look after her.What's New Pussycat?
6
Overview:
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.The Train
7.532
Overview:
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter
5.3
Overview:
Gerard, a 25-year-old student, decides to find a treasure Troilus lost in the sea after the Peloponnesian War. His meeting with Manina jeopardises his plans of finding the treasure.The Game Is Over
5.1
Overview:
Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.Hotbed of Sin
NYR
Overview:
A couple of dancers performs in a night club. The man is jealous of Gina, his partner,and keeps making scenes to her, going as far as bullying her on the stage during their act. A man gets killed. The dancer is suspected for being jealous of all the other men. Another potential culprit could the father of Gina since he overprotected his daughter. The real culprit will be unmasked after the police detective finds the murder has something to with the Occupation period.Daughter of Dracula
4
Overview:
Luisa is called to the bed of her dying mother Edith at Karlstein Castle. Before she dies, she tells Luisa that the Karlsteins are a family of vampires and that her ancestor, the original Count Karlstein, lies buried in the crypt. Afterwards, Luisa goes and finds the count's coffin and discovers that he is undead. As she takes Karine, her cousin as her lover, a police inspector, Ptuschko investigates a series of killings around the town, dismissing the locals who insist these are being caused by vampires.The Secret Ways
5.2
Overview:
Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist escape from Budapest.Phantom of the Big Tent
NYR
Overview:
Mr. Rossi and Mr. Capelli, co-owners of a successful traveling circus, have a rivalry over the affections of the lovely Dolores. That's all settled after Rossi is mauled to death by a lion. Years later a series of accidents, attacks and mysterious deaths plague the circus.Zombie Lake
3.2
Overview:
In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WWII, come back.Hey Stranger
5
Overview:
An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty political and financial affair, an art smuggling case that touches them merely for the fact that it may separate them, be it through death or exile.The Silence of the Sea
7.5
Overview:
In a small town in WWII France, a German officer is billeted in the house of an elderly man and his niece who resist the occupation by refusing to interact with him, even as he speaks to them candidly about his life and hopes for the future of France and Germany.Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
3.571
Overview:
Robinson, a down-on-his-luck pharmacist who’s pestered by his nagging wife and overbearing mother-in-law, dreams of seclusion on a remote island with the girl of his fantasies. Finally fed up, he decides to leave and make his dream a reality. But beware! there are cannibals.Celestine
5.674
Overview:
The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While hiding out in the hayloft of the Count de la Braquette's estate, she meets the hayseed handyman Sébastien and the butler Malou, who reward her favors with the offer of employment. In a manner recalling Terence Stamp's effect on the household in TEOREMA, Celestine's open and relaxed attitude toward sexuality has a transformative effect on the isolated, moribund inhabitants of the mansion, imbuing them with gift of renewed life for the men and women alike, that remains even after a third act twist that forces her to betray them.Acting
1999Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell as Cagliostro
1996The Rock of Acapulco as Le vieil homme
1996The Complex of Toulon as Charles Toulon
1994Hey Stranger as Old officer
1993Jungle of Fear as Unknown
1991Delicatessen as Frog Man
1990The Carpathian Mushroom as Jeremy Fairfax
1989Black Sin as Manes
1988Hommage à Vernon as Self (archive footage)
1988Faceless as Dr. Orloff
1988Howl of the Devil as Eric
1987The Death of Empedocles as Hermokrates
1987Terminus as Monsieur (voice)
1987The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil' as Self
1985Angel of Death as Josef Mengele
1985Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included as Coronel Daniel J. Blimp
1985All Mixed Up as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique
1984The Sinister Doctor Orloff as Dr. Orloff
1984Le fou du roi as Abbot Guibourd
1983Revenge in the House of Usher as Roderic Usher
1983Ogroff as Vampire
1983Blood on My Shoes as Albert von Klaus
1982Far from Manhattan as René Dimanche
1982Deadline as Doorman
1981The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne as Dr. Lanyon
1981Zombie Lake as The Mayor
1979The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner as Self
1979From Hell to Victory as SS Major Karl
1978Women in Cellblock 9 as Dr. Milton
1977The Theatre of the Matters as Hermann
1976The Musician Killer as Anton Varga
1975The Perverse Countess as Count Rabor Zaroff
1975Seven Women for Satan as Karl, Zaroff's servant
1975Don't Change Hands as Jacques des Grieux
1975Love and Death as General Leveque
1975The Garden That Tilts as Paul
1975The Adventures of Sylvia Couski as Unknown
1975The Mark of Zorro as Governor Hayes
1974Lorna, the Exorcist as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)
1974Celestine as Grandfather
1974Fifteen Year Old Captain as Korda
1974How to Seduce a Virgin as Mathias
1974Les Gloutonnes as Cagliostro
1973Dolls for Sale as Al Pereira
1973A Virgin Among the Living Dead as Uncle Howard
1973Lovers of Devil's Island as Colonel Ford
1973The Other Side of the Mirror as Ana's Father
1973Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac as Le docteur
1973The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein as Cagliostro
1973The Day of the Jackal as Cabinet Member
1973Graf Luckner (1 Episode) as Mercer
1973The Demons as Lord Malcolm De Winter
1972Daughter of Dracula as Count Karlstein / Dracula
1972Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein as Dracula
1972Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves as Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant
1972The French Sex Murders as Professor Waldemar
1972Sex Charade as General
1972Virgin Report as Anna's Father / The Inquisitor
1971She Killed in Ecstasy as Prof. Jonathan Walker
1971X312 - Flight to Hell as Pedro
1971The Devil Came from Akasava as Valet Humphrey
1971Love Me Strangely as Maître Wasserman, property administrator
1970The Invisible Man's Love Life as Professor Orloff
1970The Blood Rose as Professeur Römer
1970Nightmares Come at Night as Howard
1970The Bloody Judge as Jack Ketch
1970Ce que cherche Jacques as Unknown
1969Marquis de Sade: Justine as Clément
1968Mayerling as Prince of Montenuovo
1968Castle of the Creeping Flesh as Graf Saxon
1968Succubus as Admiral Kapp
1967The Hotheads as Mr. Gorsi, The Boss.
1967The Orgies of Dr. Orloff as Dam Gaillimh
1967Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre (1 Episode) as Ricardo Solesta
1967The Unknown Man of Shandigor as Yvan
1967The Dinosaur and the Baby as Self
1967The Night of the Generals as Murder Suspect (uncredited)
1966Triple Cross as German Embassy Official
1966The Mad Dog as Fred
1966The Diabolical Dr. Z as Dr. Vicas
1966The Game Is Over as Lawyer
1966The Poppy Is Also a Flower as Dr. Pineau
1966Residence for Spies as Radek (uncredited)
1965Taiwo Shango oder: Der zweite Tag nach dem Tod as Dr. Brian
1965Operation Double Cross as Le professeur
1965What's New Pussycat? as Doctor
1965Alphaville as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
1964On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts as Unknown
1964The Train as Dietrich
1964Black Angel of the Mississippi as Ray Terris
1963Autopsia de un criminal as Unknown
1963Vice and Virtue as S.S. General
1963Un cas intéressant as Pr. Schroeder
1962The Shadow of Zorro as El General (credit only)
1962Zorro the Avenger as The General Clarence
1962The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus as Max von Klaus
1962The Awful Dr. Orlof as Dr. Orloff
1961The Sword of Vengeance as Unknown
1961Léon Morin, Priest as Colonel
1961Première brigade criminelle as Steven Hals
1961The Secret Ways as Colonel Hidas
1960Dossier AST-555 as Inspector Jackson
1960The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse as No. 12
1960Rendezvous as Howard
1960Death at Dawn as Unknown
1959Atomic Agent as William Dantoren
1959Heiße Ware as Heinrich Strasser
1959Pensione Edelweiss as Général Funck
1958Doctor Crippen Lives as Unknown
1957Weekend as Richard Greatham
1957Until the Last One as Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist
1957The River of Three Junks as Igor Kourguine
1956La melodía misteriosa as Inspector Revel
1956Bob le Flambeur as McKimmie, the Sponsor
1956Alert in the Canary Islands as Maxime Bellac
1956Operation Thunder as Roger Kervec
1956Das Abschiedsgeschenk as Andrew Crocker-Harris
195508/15 at Home as CIC-Offizier Ted
1955Der grüne Kakadu as Henri
1955Gottes Utopia as Paco Hernandes
1955El fugitivo de Amberes as Bell Fermer
1955Pas de souris dans le business as Robert Leperque
1954Phantom of the Big Tent as Armand LaRue, König der Luft
1954Royal Affairs in Versailles as English buyer
1953Lucrèce Borgia as The chaplain
1953Le Petit Jacques as Daniel Mortal
1953Mr. Scrupule, Gangster as Rolande's friend
1953Poison Ivy as Rudy Saltierra
1952Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter as Éric
1952The Girl with the Whip as Borgo
1952Si ça vous chante as Unknown
1951Adventures of Captain Fabian as Emile
1951Hotbed of Sin as Charles
1950Black Jack as Schooner Captain
1950The Elusive Pimpernel as Comte de Tournai
1950Secret Document: Vienna as Colonel von Pennwitz
1949The Inn of Sin as Ducourt
1949The Man on the Eiffel Tower as Inspector (uncredited)
1949Du Guesclin as Lancaster
1949The Silence of the Sea as Werner von Ebrennac
1948Colonel Durand as Unknown
1948The Devil Who Limped as Lord Palmerston
1947The Chips Are Down as Le chef milicien
1947The Royalists as Captain Gérard
1947Sky Battalion as German officer (uncredited)
1946Devil and the Angel as Furet henchman
1946Alert Nights as English aviator
1946The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic as (uncredited)
1946Mr. Orchid as German Lieutenant Fleischer
1946Clandestine as Unknown
1946A Friend Will Come Tonight as Robert Langlois, le muet
1946Behind These Walls as German officer (uncredited)
1945Angel and Sinner as Prussian officer in Uville (uncredited)
Camera
1974Lorna, the Exorcist ... Still Photographer
1974Fifteen Year Old Captain ... Still Photographer
1974How to Seduce a Virgin ... Still Photographer
1974Les Gloutonnes ... Still Photographer
1968Succubus ... Still Photographer