Actor info
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Name :
Howard Vernon
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Born :
July 15, 1908 in Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany] (88 years at death)
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Died :
July 25, 1996
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Known for :
Acting
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Gender :
Male
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Film career :
153 films (1945–1999)
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Also known as :
Mario Lippert, Mario Lipert, Mario Walter Lippert, Howard Wernon
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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
Notable films
- Delicatessen (1991) as Frog Man
- The Day of the Jackal (1973) as Cabinet Member
- Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969) as Clément
- Mayerling (1968) as Prince of Montenuovo
- Alphaville (1965) as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
