Howard Vernon
1908-1996
Known for The Silence of the Sea, Delicatessen, Zombie Lake.
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.
Movie Credits
Revenge in the House of Usher (1983)
The Silence of the Sea (1949)
Women in Cellblock 9 (1978)
Celestine (1974)
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac (1973)
The Awful Dr. Orlof (1962)
Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter (1952)
Angel of Death (1985)
Daughter of Dracula (1972)
The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)
A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973)
She Killed in Ecstasy (1971)
The Game Is Over (1966)
Lorna, the Exorcist (1974)
The Demons (1973)
The Other Side of the Mirror (1973)
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
The Bloody Judge (1970)
Faceless (1988)
Alphaville (1965)
From Hell to Victory (1979)
The Blood Rose (1970)
Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969)
What's New Pussycat? (1965)
Phantom of the Big Tent (1954)
Terminus (1987)
Love Me Strangely (1971)
The Train (1964)
Léon Morin, Priest (1961)
The Night of the Generals (1967)
Triple Cross (1966)
