Howard Vernon (Actor)

Reviews of Howard Vernon Movies

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Movies starring Howard Vernon have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.

The Train - released in 1964 - is Howard Vernon's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 117 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Howard Vernon is Revenge in the House of Usher - released in 1983 - with a score of 27% based on 1 reviews.

Actor Biography

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.

Howard Vernon has acted in films with Gérard Buhr, Roger Lumont, Woody Allen and Peter O'Toole.

Howard Vernon has worked with these film directors: Jesús Franco, Jean-Pierre Melville, Woody Allen and Jean-Luc Godard.