Howard Vernon

Summary

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.[1][2]

Howard Vernon
Born
Mario Walter Lippert

(1908-07-15)15 July 1908
Baden-Baden, German Empire
Died25 July 1996(1996-07-25) (aged 88)
OccupationActor
Years active1939–1996

Biography edit

Vernon was born Mario Lippert in Baden-Baden, Germany, to a Swiss father and a German mother.[1] Originally a stage and radio actor, he played Nazi officers, gangsters and psychopaths in French and American films after World War II.[1] 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.[3] He died in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 10 days after his 88th birthday.[1]

Selected filmography edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d "Howard Vernon". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (in German). Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Howard Vernon". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
  3. ^ Thrower, Stephen; Grainger, Julian (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. Strange Attractor Press.

External links edit

  • Howard Vernon at IMDb