Personal Info

  • Known For

    Acting

  • Known Credits

    149

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    July 15, 1908 ( 88 years old )

  • Place of Birth

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

  • Also Known As

    Mario Lippert

    Mario Lipert

Howard Vernon

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