Cast & creator
Howard Vernon
Best known for Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre, The Day of the Jackal, Graf Luckner
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
Also known as: Mario Lippert, Mario Lipert, Mario Walter Lippert, Howard Wernon
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film credits
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television credits
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1945–1999 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (160)
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Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Ricardo Solesta
1967
The Day of the Jackal
Cabinet Member
1973
Graf Luckner
Mercer
1971
Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur
Sir Horace Mill
1971
The Night of the Generals
Murder Suspect (uncredited)
1967
Delicatessen
Frog Man
1991
Marquis de Sade: Justine
Clément
1969
Alphaville
Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
1965
Love and Death
General Leveque
1975
Women in Cellblock 9
Dr. Milton Costa
1978
What's New Pussycat?
Doctor
1965
The Train
Dietrich
1964
Triple Cross
German Embassy Official
1966
Celestine
Grandfather
1974
Mayerling
Prince of Montenuovo
1968
Royal Affairs in Versailles
English buyer
1953
Lorna, the Exorcist
Maurizius (Lornas Butler)
1974Lorna, the Exorcist
Still Photographer
1974
Zombie Lake
The Mayor
1981
Countess Perverse
Count Rabor Zaroff
1975Countess Perverse
Still Photographer
1975
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
Uncle Howard
1973
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
Dr. Pineau
1966
Lucrèce Borgia
The chaplain
1953
Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter
Éric
1952
Léon Morin, Priest
Colonel
1961
The Bloody Judge
Jack Ketch
1970
From Hell to Victory
SS Major Karl
1979
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Inspector (uncredited)
1949
Black Sin
Manes
1989
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
No. 12
1960
Bob le Flambeur
McKimmie, the Sponsor
1956
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
Cagliostro
1973
The Secret Ways
Colonel Hidas
1961
The Other Side of the Mirror
Ana's Father
1973
The Shadow of Zorro
El General (credit only)
1962
The Silence of the Sea
Werner von Ebrennac
1949
She Killed in Ecstasy
Prof. Jonathan Walker
1971
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
Bobby Gun
1967
Fifteen Year Old Captain
Korda
1973Fifteen Year Old Captain
Still Photographer
1973
Love Me Strangely
Maître Wasserman, property administrator
1971
Adventures of Captain Fabian
Emile
1951
Angel of Death
Josef Mengele
1985
Description of a Struggle
Narrator (German version)
1960
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Dr. Lanyon
1981
Nightmares Come at Night
Howard
1973
Succubus
Admiral Kapp
1968Succubus
Still Photographer
1968
Pas de souris dans le business
Robert Leperque
1955
Secret Document: Vienna
Colonel von Pennwitz
1950
The Devil Came from Akasava
Valet Humphrey
1971
Howl of the Devil
Eric
1988
The Game Is Over
Lawyer
1966
The French Sex Murders
Professor Waldemar
1972
Daughter of Dracula
Count Karlstein / Dracula
1972
Dolls for Sale
Al Pereira
1973
Poison Ivy
Rudy Saltierra
1953
Faceless
Dr. Orloff
1988
Terminus
Monsieur (voice)
1987
The Demons
Lord Malcolm De Winter
1973
The Awful Dr. Orlof
Dr. Orloff
1962
Zorro the Avenger
The General Clarence
1962
The Garden That Tilts
Paul
1975
The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
Max von Klaus
1962
The Blood Rose
Professeur Römer
1970
X312 - Flight to Hell
Pedro
1971
Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant
1972
The Sinister Doctor Orloff
Dr. Orloff
1984
Vice and Virtue
S.S. General
1963
The Rock of Acapulco
Le vieil homme
1996
The Girl with the Whip
Borgo
1952
08/15 at Home
CIC-Offizier Ted
1955
Seven Women for Satan
Karl, Zaroff's servant
1975Opération Jericho
Un soldat allemand
The Elusive Pimpernel
Comte de Tournai
1950
A Friend Will Come Tonight
Robert Langlois, le muet
1946
Hey Stranger
Old officer
1994
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
Dracula
1972
The Death of Empedocles
Hermokrates
1987
Ogroff
Vampire
1983
The Theatre of the Matters
Hermann
1977
The Chips Are Down
Le chef milicien
1947
The Diabolical Dr. Z
Dr. Vicas
1966
The Mysterious Melody AKA Ce soir les souris dansent
Inspector Revel
1956
The Dinosaur and the Baby
Self
1967
Castle of the Creeping Flesh
Graf Saxon
1968
Si ça vous chante
1952
The Orgies of Dr. Orloff
Dam Gaillimh
1967
The Complex of Toulon
Charles Toulon
1996
How to Seduce a Virgin
Mathias
1974How to Seduce a Virgin
Still Photographer
1974
The Mark of Zorro
Governor Hayes
1975
All Mixed Up
Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique
1985
Far from Manhattan
René Dimanche
1982
Blood on My Shoes
Albert von Klaus
1983
Autopsia de un criminal
1963
The Invisible Man's Love Life
Professor Orloff
1970
The Devil Who Limped
Lord Palmerston
1948
Phantom of the Big Tent
Armand LaRue, König der Luft
1954
Devil and the Angel
Furet henchman
1946
Until the Last One
Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist
1957
Dossier AST-555
Inspector Jackson
1960
The River of Three Junks
Igor Kourguine
1957
The Carpathian Mushroom
Jeremy Fairfax
1990
The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
1975
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin Included
Coronel Daniel J. Blimp
1985
Death at Dawn
1960
Lovers of Devil's Island
Colonel Ford
1973The Musician Killer
Anton Varga
1976
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
Cagliostro
1999Das Abschiedsgeschenk
Andrew Crocker-Harris
1956
Ce que cherche Jacques
Jacques
1970
The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner
Self
1979
The Inn of Sin
Ducourt
1949
Rendezvous
Howard
1960
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
Le docteur
1973On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
1964
Operation Double Cross
The 'professor'
1965
Doctor Crippen Lives
1958
Behind These Walls
German officer (uncredited)
1946
El fugitivo de Amberes
Bell Fermer
1955
Le fou du roi
Abbot Guibourd
1984
The Sword of Vengeance
1961
Du Guesclin
Lancaster
1949
The Mad Dog
Fred
1966
The Royalists
Captain Gérard
1947Der grüne Kakadu
Henri
1955
Hotbed of Sin
Charles
1951
Black Jack
Schooner Captain
1950
Angel and Sinner
Prussian officer in Uville (uncredited)
1945
Black Angel of the Mississippi
Ray Terris
1964
Deadline
Doorman
1982
Pensione Edelweiss
Général Funck
1959Gottes Utopia
Paco Hernandes
1955
Revenge in the House of Usher
Roderic Usher
1983
Virgin Report
Anna's Father / The Inquisitor
1972
Le Petit Jacques
Daniel Mortal
1953
Atomic Agent
William Dantoren
1959
The Greedy Ones
Cagliostro
1974The Greedy Ones
Still Photographer
1974The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil'
Self
1987
Residence for Spies
Radek (uncredited)
1968
Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
Rolande's friend
1953
Operation Thunder
Roger Kervec
1956
The Hotheads
Mr. Gorsi, The Boss.
1967
Sky Battalion
German officer (uncredited)
1947
Un cas intéressant
Pr. Schroeder
1963Taiwo Shango oder: Der zweite Tag nach dem Tod
Dr. Brian
1965
Mr. Orchid
German Lieutenant Fleischer
1946
Alert in the Canary Islands
Maxime Bellac
1956
Colonel Durand
1948
Alert Nights
English aviator
1946Hommage à Vernon
Self (archive footage)
1988
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
(uncredited)
1946
Clandestine
1946Jungle of Fear
1993
Heiße Ware
Heinrich Strasser
1959
Première brigade criminelle
Steven Hals
1961Weekend
Richard Greatham
1957