Howard Vernon | |
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Born | Mario Walter Lippert 15 July 1908 Baden-Baden, German Empire |
Died | 25 July 1996 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France | (aged 88)
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1939–1996 |
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.[1][2]
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]