Howard Vernon

Howard Vernon (15 July 1908 – 25 July 1996), born Mario Walter Lippert, was a 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. Biography 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 Amrican films after World War II. In the 1960s, he became a favorite 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. Selected filmography Boule de Suif (1945) .... Un Prussien (uncredited) Jericho (1946) .... Un officier allemand (uncredited) A Friend Will Come Tonight (1946) .... Robert Langlois, le muet Les clandestins (1946) L'insaisissable Frédéric (1946) .... (uncredited) Night Warning (1946) .... L'aviateur anglais Mr. Orchid (1946) .... Le lieutenant Fleischer, l'officier allemand Devil and the Angel (1946) .... Un Homme de Main de Furet The Royalists (1947) .... Le capitaine Gérard Le Bataillon du ciel (1947) .... Un officier allemand (uncredited) The Die Is Cast (aka "The Chips Are Down") (1947) .... Le chef milicien Le colonel Durand (1948) The Lame Devil (1948, director: Sacha Guitry) .... Lord Palmerston Le Silence de la mer (1949, director: Jean-Pierre Melville) .... Werner von Ebrennac Du Guesclin (1949) .... Lancaster The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) .... Inspector (uncredited) L'auberge du péché (1949) .... Ducourt Fusillé à l'aube (1950) .... Colonel von Pennwitz The Fighting Pimpernel (1950) .... Comte de Tournai Black Jack (1950) .... Schooner Captain Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951) .... Emile Boîte de nuit (1951) .... Charles Si ça vous chante (1951) The Secret of the Mountain Lake (1952) .... Borgo, der Schmugglerwirt The Girl with the Whip (1952) .... Borgo Manina, the Girl in the Bikini (1952) .... Éric La môme vert-de-gris / Poison Ivy (1953) .... Rudy Saltierra Monsieur Scrupule, Gangster (1953) .... L'ami de Rolande Little Jacques (1953) .... Daniel Mortal Lucrèce Borgia (1953) .... Le chapelain Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954) .... L'acheteur anglais (uncredited) Opération Tonnerre (1954) .... Roger Kervec The Phantom of the Big Tent (1954) .... Armand LaRue, König der Luft Napoléon (1955) ....