Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

July 15, 1908

Died

July 25, 1996 (88 years old)

Place of Birth

Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]

Also Known As

Mario Lippert
Mario Lipert
Mario Walter Lippert
Howard Wernon

IMDb Profile

Howard Vernon

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.

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