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

Known For

Delicatessen

as Frog Man

Love and Death

as General Leveque

The Day of the Jackal

as Cabinet Member

Alphaville

as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)

The Train

as Dietrich

Bob le Flambeur

as McKimmie, the Sponsor

The Night of the Generals

as Murder Suspect (uncredited)

What's New Pussycat?

as Doctor

Léon Morin, Priest

as Colonel

The Silence of the Sea

as Werner von Ebrennac