Howard Vernon
Birthday: 1914-07-15 | Place of Birth: Baden, SwitzerlandFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Howard Vernon (15 July 1914, Baden, Switzerland — 25 July 1996, Paris, France) was a Swiss actor. Vernon was born Mario Lippert to a Swiss father and an American mother and was fluent in German, English, and French. Originally a stage and radio actor, he worked primarily in France and became a well-known supporting actor after 1945 by playing villainous Nazi officers in French films. Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Silence de la mer, in which he played a gentle anti-Nazi German officer, made him somewhat famous, but, in part due to his looks and Swiss accent, he was subsequently relegated to playing gangsters and heavies. In the 1960s, he became a favorite actor of Spanish horror director Jesús Franco and began starring in many low-budget horror movies produced in Spain or in France, often portraying a mad doctor, "Dr. Orloff". Franco cast him in a number of adult films, in some of which Vernon even did nude scenes (he stated once in an interview that he would always do anything Franco requested of him). He continued to make increasingly small appearances in high-profile movies while often getting top billing in many Z-grade horror films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Vernon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Acting
Role
as Charles Toulon
as Old officer
as Jeremy Fairfax
as Manes
as Dr. Orloff
as Eric
as Monsieur (voice)
as Hermokrates
as Self (archive footage)
as Coronel Daniel J. Blimp
as Josef Mengele
as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique
as Abbot Guibourd
as Dr. Orloff
as Albert von Klaus
as Roderic Usher
as Vampire
as René Dimanche
as Dr. Lanyon
as The Mayor
as Dr. Milton
as Hermann
as Anton Varga
as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)
