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 Dr. Orloff
as Josef Mengele
as Dr. Orloff
as Roderic Usher
as The Mayor
as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)
as Count Rabor Zaroff
as Governor Hayes
as Karl, Zaroff's servant
as Grandfather
as Ana's Father
as Cagliostro
as Colonel Ford
as Lord Malcolm De Winter
as Anna's Father / The Inquisitor
as Count Karlstein / Dracula
as Dracula
as Jack Ketch
as Professor Waldemar
as Pedro
as Prof. Jonathan Walker
as Howard
as Professor Orloff
as Admiral Kapp
as Graf Saxon
as Dr. Vicas
as Fred
as Le professeur
