Howard Vernon
Biography
Alternate Names: Mario Lippert Howard Varnon Vernon Date of Birth: 15 July 1914, Baden, Switzerland Date of Death: 25 July 1996, Paris, France Birth Name: Mario Lippert Height: 6' 0½" (1.84 m) Mini Biography: Swiss-born actor Howard Vernon (né Mario Lippert) would make his infamous claim to fame as a stock lead player for the lowgrade, campy horror features of notorious director Jesus Franco, starring as Dr. Orloff, Dracula, and other terrorizers, most of them produced in Spain or France. Born in 1914 the son of a Swiss father and American mother, Howard received his dramatic training in both Berlin and Paris and was originally a stage and radio player (from 1945) before arriving in post-war French films. He articulated and personified a number of nefarious Nazis and sinister criminals in his five-decade career, although he could grab a sympathetic role from time such as in the French film Le silence de la Mer (1949), which remains one of his best. Occasionally a still photographer, he forged a long, non-creative association beginning in the early 1960s with cult director Jess Franco following his good showing for Fritz Lang in _Tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse, Die (1960)_ [The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse]. With his piercing gaze and gravely-voiced he entered into an enduring alliance with Franco, albeit in dreadful schlock. It began promisingly enough with the horror classic Gritos en la noche (1962) [The Awful Dr. Orloff] in which he portrayed the creepy title role with a slightly sympathetic countenance, but his appearances quickly degenerated into cheap exploitation, void of deserving artistic merit. He died in Paris shortly after his 82nd birthday. IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net Trivia: In two movies he was the French voice of Oliver Hardy (from Laurel & Hardy).
Triple Cross
German Embassy Official
Le Silence de la Mer
Werner von Ebrennac
Zombie Lake
The Mayor
The Awful Dr. Orlof
Dr. Orlof
She Killed In Ecstasy
Prof. Jonathan Walker
A Virgin Among The Living Dead
Howard - Christina's Uncle
The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
Baron Max von Klaus
Revenge in the House of Usher
Alan Harker (as Robert Foster)
The Diabolical Doctor Z
Dr. Vicas
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
Drácula
Die 1000 Glotzböbbel vom Dr. Mabuse
Nr. 12 (archive footage)
Handsome Harker
Prof. Jonathan Walker (archive footage)
Bloody Jess
Jack Ketch (archive footage) (uncredited)
Banqueroute
Georges
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
Cagliostro (archive footage)
The Rock of Acapulco
Le vieil homme
The Girl Who Came Late
Dr. Montgomery
Delicatessen
Frog Man
Jeremy Fairfax
Schwarze Sünde
Manes
Faceless
Docteur Orloff
Howl of the Devil
Eric
The Death of Empedocles
Hermokrates
Last Summer in Tangiers
Maître Schmidt, un avocat suisse
Terminus
Monsieur (voice)
Angel of Death
Dr. Josef Mengele
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin
Coronel Daniel J. Blimp
Sac de noeuds
Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique
The Sinister Dr. Orloff
Dr. Orloff
Le fou du roi
Abbé guibourd
Mad Mutilator
Vampire
Revenge in the House of Usher
Alan Harker (as Robert Foster)
Loin de Manhattan
René Dimanche
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Dr. Lanyon
Zombie Lake
The Mayor
From Hell to Victory
SS Major Karl
Women In Cellblock 9
Dr. Milton
Le théâtre des matières
The Musician Killer
Anton Varga
Change pas de main
Jacques des Grieux
Love and Death
Gen. Leveque
The Garden That Tilts
Paul
That Most Important Thing: Love
(voice) (uncredited)
The Mark of Zorro
Gov. Hayes
The Perverse Countess
Count Rabor Zaroff
Seven Women for Satan
Karl, Zaroff's servant
Lorna the Exorcist
Maurizius, Lorna's butler
Celestine, Maid at Your Service
Le duc
Fun for Three
Mathias
The Erotic Exploits of Maciste in Atlantis
Cagliostro
Fifteen Year Old Captain
Korda
A Virgin Among The Living Dead
Howard - Christina's Uncle
Lovers of Devil's Island
Colonel Ford
Al otro lado del espejo
Padre - Oliveira
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
Doctor
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
Cagliostro
The Day of the Jackal
Cabinet Member (uncredited)
The Demons
Lord Malcolm De Winter
Daughter Of Dracula
Count Karlstein / Dracula
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
Drácula
Robinson und seine wilden Sklavinnen
Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant
The French Sex Murders
Professor Waldemar
Jungfrauen-Report
Anna's Father / The Inquisitor
Edgar Wallace: Der Teufel kam aus Akasava
Valet Humphrey
Love Me Strangely
Maître Wasserman - l'administrateur de biens
Les cauchemars naissent la nuit
Howard
She Killed In Ecstasy
Prof. Jonathan Walker
Orloff Against the Invisible Man
Le professeur Orloff
The Blood Rose
Professeur Römer
The Bloody Judge
Jack Ketch
X-312 - Flight to Hell
Pedro
Marquis de Sade's Justine
Frère Clément
Mayerling
Prince Montenuevo (uncredited)
Im Schloß der blutigen Begierde
Graf Saxon
Succubus
Admiral Kapp (as Howard Varnon)
Radek (uncredited)
Only a Coffin
Dam Gaillimh
Cinéastes de notre temps : Le Dinosaure et le Bébé, dialogue en huit parties entre Fritz Lang et Jean-Luc Godard
Self
The Night of the Generals
Herr Schusslig, Suspect in Erika Müller's Murder (uncredited)
L'inconnu de Shandigor
Yank / Bobby Gun
The Diabolical Doctor Z
Dr. Vicas
Triple Cross
German Embassy Official
The Mad Dog
Fred
The Game Is Over
Lawyer
Mohn ist auch eine Blume
Dr. Pineau
Operation Double Cross
Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution
Professor Leonard Nosferatu aka Von Braun (uncredited)
The Train
Dietrich
Ray Terris
Vice and Virtue
SS General
El General (credit only)
Zorro the Avenger
The General Clarence
The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
Baron Max von Klaus
The Awful Dr. Orlof
Dr. Orlof
Léon Morin, Priest
The colonel
Geheime Wege
Colonel Hidas
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse
No. 12
Division Brandenburg
Secret Service Man
Rendezvous
Howard
Third Side of the Coin
Narrator (German version)
Heinrich Strasser
Pensione Edelweiss
Le général Funck
Hyänen unter Sich
Philippe Dario - le trapéziste
Bob le flambeur
McKimmie - le commanditaire
08/15 - In der Heimat
CIC-Offizier John
Napoleon
Lord Liverpool (uncredited)
Si Versailles m'était conté
L'acheteur anglais
Lucrezia Borgia
Le chapelain
La Môme Vert-de-Gris
Rudy Saltierra
Manina, La Chica de la Isla
Éric
Das Mädchen mit der Peitsche
Borgo, der Schmugglerwirt
Adventures of Captain Fabian
Emile
The Inn of Sin
Ducourt
The Fighting Pimpernel
Comte de Tournai
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
Inspector (uncredited)
Le Silence de la Mer
Werner von Ebrennac
Les Jeux Sont Faits
Le chef milicien
Devil and the Angel
Un homme de main de Furet
Le père tranquille
Le lieutenant Fleischer, l'officier allemand
Jéricho
Un officier allemand (uncredited)
Angel and Sinner
Un Prussien (uncredited)
