Date of birth: 1908-07-15
Place of birth: Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Mario Lippert, Mario Lipert, Mario Walter Lippert, Howard Wernon
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
1991-04-17
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasio
1973-05-31
After the death of Victor Frankenstein, two figures vie for control of his monster and the radical t
1972-10-17
Dracula kills another innocent victim and Dr. Seward decides it's time to wipe him off the face of t
1964-09-24
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take
1965-06-22
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love see
1965-11-10
In Barcelona, secret agent Antoine Donadieu thwarts the plans of a Nazi scientist.
1971-03-05
A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is sto
1981-05-13
In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Res
1983-03-23
Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Us
1985-07-23
A Jewish commando unit hunting Nazi war criminals tracks down the infamous Dr. Mengele in the jungle
1956-08-24
In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy an
1987-01-28
An established dystopian sport has drivers of a computerized truck driving cross-country to a termin
1966-08-01
A woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to
1970-10-25
Young doctor Garondet is summoned by renowned Professor Orloff. At Orloff's castle, Garondet discove
1968-07-25
In an ancient castle, a mad scientist is trying to revive his dead daughter by an operation, but the
1999-01-01
Rachel Sheppard is a millionaire’s daughter, kidnapped for ransom and tortured in the weird and wond
1968-04-19
Lorna Green is a performer at a Lisbon nightclub who performs fictionalized acts that involve erotic
1971-12-10
A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human embryos, c
1988-01-31
A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon’s horrifying secret in
1949-04-22
In a small town in WWII France, a German officer is billeted in the house of an elderly man and his
1984-06-18
The son of the infamous Dr. Orloff clashes with his father when he begins to stalk and dismember pro
1974-05-15
According to legend, a group of women escaped from Atlantis just before the destruction of the conti
1970-02-05
In 1685 England, an overzealous Lord Chancellor condemns various rebels and "witches" to satisfy his
1961-04-01
Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael Reynolds i
1967-01-29
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He
1982-01-27
Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand why
1952-12-26
Gerard, a 25-year-old student, decides to find a treasure Troilus lost in the sea after the Peloponn
1976-03-17
A dedicated clarinetist receives a valuable violin and has a difficult time deciding what to do with
1981-06-17
In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Miss F
1972-06-15
After a French prostitute is found dead, one of her regular clients is tried and convicted for her m
1978-03-17
A group of female freedom-fighters led by Karine Levere is caught by the warden of a women's prison,
1960-09-13
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw t
1972-01-01
Part documentary, part mockumentary, part sexploitation, all Franco. Starting in the Garden of Eden
1962-06-15
In the eerie village of Holfen, a series of gruesome murders sparks rumors of a centuries-old curse,
1966-06-22
Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in l
1946-03-13
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by
1945-10-13
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known a
1946-04-16
A resistance leader is wounded when the Germans raid his underground print shop. He escapes to the h
1946-07-15
The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, "The Uncatcable Frédéric", a sort of Arsène Lupin.
1946-09-25
Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a
1946-04-30
This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief o
1946-10-30
The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War
1947-03-05
Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp du
1947-03-20
The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed.
1948-08-25
In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who entered
1948-07-11
The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de
1973-02-05
A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the
1949-12-15
Two murders are committed in an inn for the possession of a bag containing a fortune.
1949-12-12
A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime
1952-09-05
A fashionable singer makes a stopover in the harbor of Cannes, while a radio journalist investigates
1952-09-25
The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.
1951-07-20
A couple of dancers performs in a night club. The man is jealous of Gina, his partner,and keeps maki
1959-03-10
A man who was injured in an accident has a visitor in his hospital. The visitor suggests a strange d
1983-01-01
Ogroff, an AWOL-solider-turned-hermit, lives in the French backwoods, and, still believing war to be
1975-12-10
Two rich aristocrats lure a virgin to a remote Spanish island for a night of sex, death and cannibal
1953-05-26
FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Ca
1951-10-06
It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, Geo
1988-06-08
Forgotten Straub-Huillet film that shows outtakes from "Der Tod des Empedokles".
1973-09-24
A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through a mi
1974-10-16
The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While hidi
1959-11-04
Murderous foreign agents are after a scientist who has invented an atomic engine that could change t
1972-10-01
Robinson, a down-on-his-luck pharmacist who’s pestered by his nagging wife and overbearing mother-in
1987-01-01
Short film made on the production of HOWL OF THE DEVIL.
1996-04-10
It is due to some professional obligations that brothers Charles and Fredi turn their attention to t
1975-01-01
In nineteenth-century California, two children listen to the adventures of a grandfather who fought
1988-01-01
Hector Doriani is a stage and screen actor who feels himself living in the shadow of his dead twin b
1961-11-14
1973-06-21
Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and abu
1946-04-09
Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps
1985-03-19
After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.
1975-06-10
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo
1958-02-20
Double murderer Dr. Crippen is using every means possible to search for a manuscript that he suspect
1975-03-12
The ex-wife of a famous sculptor convinces her lover to remove one of his sculptures from an exhibit
1964-08-24
Early Spanish western. Ramon Torrado’s westerns remain among the most obscure ones. Of his four west
1967-10-04
A doctor invites his relatives to his castle, all the while planning to murder them when they arrive
1960-11-25
A cabaret is used as a cover for drug trafficking, but the police are unable to uncover the means us
1989-05-01
A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of the
1972-05-01
The story revolves around Anne who is held hostage by an escaped maniac from an insane asylum. The f
1965-12-14
1973-10-25
A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes
1975-06-16
A well-known politician receives a tape showing her son in a porno movie. She decides to hire a fema
1954-02-10
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocra
1977-12-07
The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.
1975-07-16
Boris Zaroff is a modern businessman who is haunted by his past -- his father was the notorious Coun
1957-01-25
In Saigon, the heads of the French counter-espionage network replace the secretary of dangerous traf
1979-03-15
In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot af
1979-11-30
Historian, author, and movie critic Lotte H. Eisner is the subject of this documentary. She recalls
1973-11-29
Al Pereira arrives at the "House of Vice" and receives orders to spy on a crime ring called the Quad
1983-01-01
Agents across the globe take turns spying on and double-crossing one another in an attempt to locate
1993-01-01
The mountains of the South Asian country are covered with dense rainforest. A cobra, scorpions and o
1994-01-01
An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find thems
1953-08-12
Mr. Scrupule is a mild-mannered smuggler operating on the coast of Nice. If it hadn't been for an un
1953-09-03
Noël Rambert is overwhelmed by fate. Marthe, his wife, has left him. His son, little Jacques, sickly
1955-04-08
Without seeming to touch it, journalist Trupeau is interested in the doings of Mireille, a jewelry s
1956-06-27
Maxime Bellac owns an art gallery. He has an affair with Michelle. One night when they have dinner t
1971-02-10
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives.
1974-06-19
Martine Bressac is released from a psychiatric clinic after a year's treatment and is driven home by
1965-05-05
Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer
1963-01-15
Adaptation for TV of the Dino Buzzati play "Un caso clinico". A modern Kafkaesque horror story in wh
1964-11-19
The habits and customs of a strange association, "La Sociéte des Gentlemen Redempteurs", which has t
1971-08-20
A plane leaving the turmoil of a South American country in the midst of a revolution crash-lands in
1970-09-25
Frédéric Lansac, an artist and botanist, has a wild affair with party girl Moira, but throws her ove
1985-06-01
The colonel Daniel Blimp, of the secret British service, travels to Bangkok to investigate the murde
1974-12-18
Twenty years after seducing a businessman, a demonic temptress lays claim to the man's daughter.
1962-06-25
Don Jose disguises himself as Zorro, the masked freedom fighter, who tries to protect his people fro
1990-03-07
A miraculous mushroom is discovered by a film director's daughter.It would be used to cure an actres
1966-09-02
Claude Brasseur plays a villain on the run from both the police and the mob. Good atmosphere in the
1969-04-03
Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cop
1967-05-01
Crazed scientist Herbert Von Krantz has invented a device to sterilize all nuclear weapons -- and a
1959-06-04
1963-03-01
1944 : Occupied France. Juliette (Vice) is Wehrmacht General Bamberg's mistress and enjoys a privile
1970-01-01
A moral adventure: one sees friendships being born and being discarded, under the pressure of avowed
1987-10-14
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedocle
1955-12-30
The third part of Paul May′s "08/15" trilogy based on the novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst takes place sh
1956-04-10
1957-07-17
1949-06-03
A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th centur
1955-10-29
1950-08-08
During the Great War, in Austria, an officer was shot on the orders of his superior von Pennwitz. Ou
1955-10-13
1961-09-22
Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a pr
1956-10-24
An old violin maker has been killed and the investigators have only one clue: on the night of the cr
1953-10-23
In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his
1967-03-15
An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of ar
1960-07-13
In France, during the Second World War, journalist Paul Roy is a member of the Resistance, while his
1961-07-19
Commissaire Masson tells a young journalist about the only failure of his career: the wife of a Cana
1955-05-16
A thief steals a Jewel in France and travels to Barcelona to try to sell it. Both the Police and a f
1967-11-08
Truck drivers hauling supplies are caught in the battle between the French and Arabs in this routine
1957-03-20
Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He ha
1947-07-01
A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the
1968-10-31
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over impl
1956-06-13
The inhabitants of a small provincial town are requisitioned to take part in the French army's major
1974-07-07
Dick Sand travels aboard the "Pilgrim" when, following dramatic events, the ship becomes without a c
1973-05-16
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill P
1972-12-14
Luisa is called to the bed of her dying mother Edith at Karlstein Castle. Before she dies, she tells
1962-05-14
Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs to use their skin to repa
1973-11-15
A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading of he
1984-05-16
Dieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates walks
1966-01-01
Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women's training camp for western spies, recently estab
1970-05-26
Diana Lorys, Collette Jack and Soledad Miranda star in this sexy thriller about two alluring dancers
1962-12-22
A battle between revolutionary Mexicans and the U.S. cavalry brings Zorro onto the scene to enact ve
1963-08-05
Carlos, a reckless card player burdened by debt, becomes involved in a shady affair when an old flam
1960-06-07
The prestigious composer Virgilio Delise, suspected of being involved in the death of his stepfather
1966-12-09
Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An
1950-11-20
A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's cl
1954-12-21
Mr. Rossi and Mr. Capelli, co-owners of a successful traveling circus, have a rivalry over the affec
1975-05-14
Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approach
1950-11-07
A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
1966-05-20
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to
1982-01-01
A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the
1996-04-24
Sandrine dreams of becoming a singer in Paris but for the time being she is only a salesgirl at Tati
1960-06-30
Chris Marker’s documentary portrays Israel twelve years after its founding, blending location and ar