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Howard Vernon

Howard Vernon

Swiss actor

Howard Vernon (15 July 1908 – 25 July 1996), born Mario Walter Lippert, was a 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.[1][2]

For the Australian actor, see Howard Vernon (Australian actor).
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Biography

Vernon was born Mario Lippert in Baden-Baden, Germany, to a Swiss father and a German mother.[1] Originally a stage and radio actor, he played Nazi officers, gangsters and psychopaths in French and American films after World War II.[1] 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.[3] He died in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 10 days after his 88th birthday.[1]

Selected filmography

References

  1. [1]
    "Howard Vernon". Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (in German). Retrieved 20 October 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Howard Vernon". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2016. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.
  3. [3]
    Thrower, Stephen; Grainger, Julian (2015). Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco. Strange Attractor Press.
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