Acting
Howard Vernon
- Born
- Jul 15, 1908 · Aged 88
- Died
- Jul 25, 1996
- Place of birth
- Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 152
- TV credits
- 3
Also known as (4)
- Mario Lippert
- Mario Lipert
- Mario Walter Lippert
- Howard Wernon
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…
