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Howard Vernon

Howard Vernon

Birthday: 1914-07-15 | Place of Birth: Baden, Switzerland

​From 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

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1988
Faceless

as    Dr. Orloff

1985
Angel of Death

as    Josef Mengele

1984
The Sinister Doctor Orloff

as    Dr. Orloff

1983
Revenge in the House of Usher

as    Roderic Usher

1981
Zombie Lake

as    The Mayor

1976
Lorna, the Exorcist

as    Maurizius (Lornas Butler)

1975
The Perverse Countess

as    Count Rabor Zaroff

1975
The Mark of Zorro

as    Governor Hayes

1975
Seven Women for Satan

as    Karl, Zaroff's servant

1974
Celestine

as    Grandfather

1973
The Obscene Mirror

as    Ana's Father

1973
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein

as    Cagliostro

1973
Lovers of Devil's Island

as    Colonel Ford

1973
The Demons

as    Lord Malcolm De Winter

1972
Virgin Report

as    Anna's Father / The Inquisitor

1972
Daughter of Dracula

as    Count Karlstein / Dracula

1972
1972
Sex Charade

as    General

1972
The Bloody Judge

as    Jack Ketch

1972
The French Sex Murders

as    Professor Waldemar

1971
X312 - Flight to Hell

as    Pedro

1971
She Killed in Ecstasy

as    Prof. Jonathan Walker

1970
Nightmares Come at Night

as    Howard

1970
The Invisible Man's Love Life

as    Professor Orloff

1968
Succubus

as    Admiral Kapp

1968
Castle of the Creeping Flesh

as    Graf Saxon

1967
The Diabolical Dr. Z

as    Dr. Vicas

1966
The Mad Dog

as    Fred

1965
Operation Double Cross

as    Le professeur