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Howard Vernon (15 July 1908, 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.
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Known For
Women in Cellblock 9
(1978)
Dr. Milton
The Train
(1964)
Dietrich
Alphaville
(1965)
Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
The Day of the Jackal
(1973)
Cabinet Member
Marquis de Sade: Justine
(1969)
Clément
Delicatessen
(1991)
Frog Man
Triple Cross
(1966)
German Embassy Official
Love and Death
(1975)
General Leveque
The Perverse Countess
(1975)
Count Rabor Zaroff
The Night of the Generals
(1967)
Murder Suspect (uncredited)
Celestine
(1974)
Grandfather
What's New Pussycat?
(1965)
Doctor
The Silence of the Sea
(1949)
Werner von Ebrennac
Léon Morin, Priest
(1961)
The colonel
Bob le Flambeur
(1956)
McKimmie, the Sponsor
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
(1973)
Uncle Howard
Full Filmography
Acting
Angel and Sinner
(1945)
Alert Nights
(1946)
English aviator
Clandestine
(1946)
Devil and the Angel
(1946)
Furet henchman
Mr. Orchid
(1946)
Behind These Walls
(1946)
German officer (uncredited)
A Friend Will Come Tonight
(1946)
Robert Langlois, le muet
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
(1946)
(uncredited)
The Chips Are Down
(1947)
Le chef milicien
Sky Battalion
(1947)
The Royalists
(1947)
Le capitaine Gérard
Colonel Durand
(1948)
The Devil Who Limped
(1948)
Lord Palmerston
The Silence of the Sea
(1949)
Werner von Ebrennac
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
(1949)
Du Guesclin
(1949)
Lancaster
The Inn of Sin
(1949)
Ducourt
Black Jack
(1950)
Schooner Captain
The Elusive Pimpernel
(1950)
Comte de Tournai
Secret Document: Vienna
(1950)
Colonel von Pennwitz
Adventures of Captain Fabian
(1951)
Emile
Hotbed of Sin
(1951)
Charles
The Girl with the Whip
(1952)
Borgo
Si ça vous chante
(1952)
Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter
(1952)
Éric
Le petit Jacques
(1953)
Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
(1953)
Lucrèce Borgia
(1953)
The chaplain
Poison Ivy
(1953)
Rudy Saltierra
Phantom of the Big Tent
(1954)
Armand LaRue
Royal Affairs in Versailles
(1954)
l'acheteur anglais
Pas de souris dans le business
(1955)
Robert Leperque
El fugitivo de Amberes
(1955)
Bell Fermer
Gottes Utopia
(1955)
Paco Hernandes
08/15 at Home
(1955)
Der grüne Kakadu
(1955)
Henri
Das Abschiedsgeschenk
(1956)
Andrew Crocker-Harris
Bob le Flambeur
(1956)
McKimmie, the Sponsor
Alert in the Canary Islands
(1956)
La melodía misteriosa
(1956)
L'inspecteur Revel
Operation Thunder
(1956)
Roger Kervec
The River of Three Junks
(1957)
Igor Kourguine
Until the Last One
(1957)
Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist
Weekend
(1957)
Richard Greatham
Doctor Crippen Lives
(1958)
Pensione Edelweiss
(1959)
Général Funck
Heiße Ware
(1959)
Heinrich Strasser
Atomic Agent
(1959)
William Dantoren
Dossier AST-555
(1960)
L'inspecteur Jackson
The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
(1960)
No. 12
Death at Dawn
(1960)
Rendezvous
(1960)
Howard
Léon Morin, Priest
(1961)
The colonel
Première brigade criminelle
(1961)
Steven Hals
The Secret Ways
(1961)
Colonel Hidas
The Sword of Vengeance
(1961)
The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus
(1962)
Max von Klaus
The Shadow of Zorro
(1962)
El General (credit only)
Zorro the Avenger
(1962)
The General Clarence
The Awful Dr. Orlof
(1962)
Dr. Orloff
Vice and Virtue
(1963)
S.S. General
Un cas intéressant
(1963)
Pr Schroeder
Autopsy of a Criminal
(1963)
Villar
On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
(1964)
The Train
(1964)
Dietrich
Black Angel of the Mississippi
(1964)
Ray Terris
Alphaville
(1965)
Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
What's New Pussycat?
(1965)
Doctor
Operation Double Cross
(1965)
Le professeur
Poppies Are Also Flowers
(1966)
Dr. Pineau
Triple Cross
(1966)
German Embassy Official
The Game Is Over
(1966)
Lawyer
Residence for Spies
(1966)
Radek (uncredited)
The Diabolical Dr. Z
(1966)
Dr. Vicas
The Mad Dog
(1966)
Fred
The Orgies of Dr. Orloff
(1967)
Dam Gaillimh
The Hotheads
(1967)
Mr. Gorsi, The Boss.
The Night of the Generals
(1967)
Murder Suspect (uncredited)
The Unknown Man of Shandigor
(1967)
Yvan
The Dinosaur and the Baby
(1967)
Himself
Succubus
(1968)
Admiral Kapp
Castle of the Creeping Flesh
(1968)
Graf Saxon
Mayerling
(1968)
Prince of Montenuovo
Marquis de Sade: Justine
(1969)
Clément
Sex Charade
(1970)
The Blood Rose
(1970)
Professeur Römer
The Bloody Judge
(1970)
Jack Ketch
The Invisible Man's Love Life
(1970)
Professor Orloff
Nightmares Come at Night
(1970)
Howard
Ce que cherche Jacques
(1970)
X312 - Flight to Hell
(1971)
Pedro
She Killed in Ecstasy
(1971)
Prof. Jonathan Walker
The Devil Came from Akasava
(1971)
Valet Humphrey
Love Me Strangely
(1971)
Maître Wasserman - l'administrateur de biens
Daughter of Dracula
(1972)
Count Karlstein / Dracula
Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves
(1972)
Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant
Virgin Report
(1972)
Anna's Father / The Inquisitor
The French Sex Murders
(1972)
Professor Waldemar
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
(1972)
Dracula
Dolls for Sale
(1973)
Al Pereira
Lovers of Devil's Island
(1973)
Colonel Ford
Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac
(1973)
Le docteur
The Obscene Mirror
(1973)
Ana's Father
The Demons
(1973)
Lord Malcolm De Winter
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
(1973)
Cagliostro
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
(1973)
Uncle Howard
The Day of the Jackal
(1973)
Cabinet Member
Fifteen Year Old Captain
(1974)
Korda
Lorna, the Exorcist
(1974)
Maurizius (Lornas Butler)
How to Seduce a Virgin
(1974)
Mathias
Les Gloutonnes
(1974)
Cagliostro
Celestine
(1974)
Grandfather
Don't Change Hands
(1975)
Jacques des Grieux
Seven Women for Satan
(1975)
Karl, Zaroff's servant
The Adventures of Sylvia Couski
(1975)
Love and Death
(1975)
General Leveque
The Mark of Zorro
(1975)
Governor Hayes
The Perverse Countess
(1975)
Count Rabor Zaroff
The Garden That Tilts
(1975)
Paul
The Musician Killer
(1976)
Anton
The Theatre of the Matters
(1977)
Hermann
Women in Cellblock 9
(1978)
Dr. Milton
The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner
(1979)
Self
From Hell to Victory
(1979)
SS Major Karl
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
(1981)
Dr. Lanyon
Zombie Lake
(1981)
The Mayor
Loin de Manhattan
(1982)
René Dimanche
Blood on My Shoes
(1983)
Albert von Klaus
Ogroff
(1983)
Vampire
Revenge in the House of Usher
(1983)
Roderic Usher
Le fou du roi
(1984)
Abbé guibourd
The Sinister Doctor Orloff
(1984)
Dr. Orloff
Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included
(1985)
Coronel Daniel J. Blimp
All Mixed Up
(1985)
Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique
Angel of Death
(1985)
Josef Mengele
Hommage à Vernon
(1986)
The Death of Empedocles
(1987)
Hermokrates
The Making of 'The Howl of the Devil'
(1987)
Self
Terminus
(1987)
Monsieur (voice)
Howl of the Devil
(1988)
Eric
Faceless
(1988)
Dr. Orloff
Black Sin
(1989)
Manes
The Carpathian Mushroom
(1990)
Jeremy Fairfax
Delicatessen
(1991)
Frog Man
Jungle of Fear
(1993)
Hey Stranger
(1994)
Old officer
Le Complexe de Toulon
(1996)
Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell
(1999)
Cagliostro
Camera