Howard Vernon

Born in July 15th, 1914

From Baden, Switzerland

Howard Vernon Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Howard Vernon (15 July 1914, Baden, Switzerland — 25 July 1996, Paris, France) was a Swiss actor. Vernon was born Mario Lippert to a Swiss father and an American mother and was fluent in German, English, and French. Originally a stage and radio actor, he worked primarily in France and became a well-known supporting actor after 1945 by playing villainous Nazi officers in French films.

Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Silence de la mer, in which he played a gentle anti-Nazi German officer, made him somewhat famous, but, in part due to his looks and Swiss accent, he was subsequently relegated to playing gangsters and heavies. In the 1960s, he became a favorite actor of Spanish horror director Jesús Franco and began starring in many low-budget horror movies produced in Spain or in France, often portraying a mad doctor, "Dr.

Orloff". Franco cast him in a number of adult films, in some of which Vernon even did nude scenes (he stated once in an interview that he would always do anything Franco requested of him). He continued to make increasingly small appearances in high-profile movies while often getting top billing in many Z-grade horror films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Vernon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Howard Vernon Movies

Alphaville Poster
October 9, 2013
Delicatessen Poster
April 3, 1992
Zombie Lake Poster
May 13, 1981
From Hell to Victory Poster
July 19, 1979
Love and Death Poster
June 10, 1975
The Bloody Judge Poster
May 1, 1972

Howard Vernon TV Shows

Graf Luckner Poster
February 20, 1973

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