Howard Vernon

Born: 1908-07-15

Howard Vernon (15 July 1908 – 25 July 1996), born Mario Walter Lippert, was a German-Swiss stage and film actor who appeared in films by Jean-Pierre Melville, Sacha Guitry, Fritz Lang, Roger Vadim, Jean-Luc Godard and Jesús Franco. Vernon was born Mario Lippert in Baden-Baden, Germany, to a Swiss father and a German mother. Originally a stage and radio actor, he played Nazi officers, gangsters and psychopaths in French and American films after World War II. In the 1960s, he became a favourite actor of Spanish film director Jesús Franco, starring in many low-budget horror and erotic films produced in Spain and France. He died in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, 10 days after his 88th birthday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Vernon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia


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The Day of the Jackal

as Cabinet Member
Released: 1973-05-16

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to...

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Marquis de Sade: Justine

as Clément
Released: 1969-04-03

Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to...

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Alphaville

as Léonard von Braun (uncredited)
Released: 1965-05-05

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent...

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Delicatessen

as Frog Man
Released: 1991-04-17

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an...

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The Train

as Dietrich
Released: 1964-09-24

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to...

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Women in Cellblock 9

as Dr. Milton
Released: 1978-03-17

A group of female freedom-fighters led by Karine Levere is caught by the warden of a women's...

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Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac

as Le docteur
Released: 1973-06-21

Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and...

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The Night of the Generals

as Murder Suspect (uncredited)
Released: 1967-01-29

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II....

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The Perverse Countess

as Count Rabor Zaroff
Released: 1975-12-10

Two rich aristocrats lure a virgin to a remote Spanish island for a night of sex, death and...

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Love and Death

as General Leveque
Released: 1975-06-10

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate...

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What's New Pussycat?

as Doctor
Released: 1965-06-22

A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love...

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Triple Cross

as German Embassy Official
Released: 1966-12-09

A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.

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Celestine

as Grandfather
Released: 1974-10-16

The story opens with Celestine eluding arrest with a friend as the police raid a brothel. While...

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A Virgin Among the Living Dead

as Uncle Howard
Released: 1973-11-15

A girl arrives from London to visit her estranged relatives in a remote castle for the reading...

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne

as Dr. Lanyon
Released: 1981-06-17

In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and...

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Faceless

as Dr. Orloff
Released: 1988-06-22

A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon’s horrifying...

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The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

as No. 12
Released: 1960-09-13

A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who...

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The Silence of the Sea

as Werner von Ebrennac
Released: 1949-04-22

In a small town in occupied France in 1941, the German officer, Werner Von Ebrennac is billeted...

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Bob le Flambeur

as McKimmie, the Sponsor
Released: 1956-08-24

In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind,...

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Mayerling

as Prince of Montenuovo
Released: 1968-10-31

Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over...

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Léon Morin, Priest

as Colonel
Released: 1961-09-22

The widow Barny lives in Nazi-occupied France, looking after her half-Jewish daughter in a small...

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The Demons

as Lord Malcolm De Winter
Released: 1973-02-05

A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during...

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She Killed in Ecstasy

as Prof. Jonathan Walker
Released: 1971-12-10

A young doctor kills himself after a medical committee terminates his research into human...

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Royal Affairs in Versailles

as English buyer
Released: 1954-02-10

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by...

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The French Sex Murders

as Professor Waldemar
Released: 1972-06-15

After a French prostitute is found dead, one of her regular clients is tried and convicted for...

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Zombie Lake

as The Mayor
Released: 1981-05-13

In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the...

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The Invisible Man's Love Life

as Professor Orloff
Released: 1970-10-25

Young doctor Garondet is summoned by renowned Professor Orloff. At Orloff's castle, Garondet...

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Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter

as Éric
Released: 1952-12-26

Gerard, a 25-year-old student, decides to find a treasure Troilus lost in the sea after the...

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How to Seduce a Virgin

as Mathias
Released: 1974-06-19

Martine Bressac is released from a psychiatric clinic after a year's treatment and is driven...

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The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein

as Cagliostro
Released: 1973-05-31

Dr. Frankenstein is left for dead in the woods. His daughter, Dr. Vera Frankenstein, hunts for...

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The Poppy Is Also a Flower

as Dr. Pineau
Released: 1966-05-20

A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across...

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The Game Is Over

as Lawyer
Released: 1966-06-22

Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls...

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Love Me Strangely

as Maître Wasserman - l'administrateur de biens
Released: 1971-02-10

Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his...

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The Other Side of the Mirror

as Ana's Father
Released: 1973-09-24

A nightclub singer is haunted by the ghost of her late father. The dead man summons her through...

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Seven Women for Satan

as Karl, Zaroff's servant
Released: 1975-07-16

Boris Zaroff is a modern businessman who is haunted by his past -- his father was the notorious...

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The Bloody Judge

as Jack Ketch
Released: 1970-02-05

Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George...

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Vice and Virtue

as S.S. General
Released: 1963-03-01

1944 : Occupied France. Juliette (Vice) is Wehrmacht General Bamberg's mistress and enjoys a...

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The Man on the Eiffel Tower

as Inspector (uncredited)
Released: 1949-12-12

A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the...

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Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves

as Yakube / Actor in Adult Movie / Film Director's Assistant
Released: 1972-10-01

Robinson, a down-on-his-luck pharmacist who’s pestered by his nagging wife and overbearing...

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Les Gloutonnes

as Cagliostro
Released: 1974-05-15

According to legend, a group of women escaped from Atlantis just before the destruction of the...

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The Awful Dr. Orlof

as Dr. Orloff
Released: 1962-05-14

Dr. Orlof, a former prison doctor, abducts beautiful women from nightclubs to use their skin to...

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Lorna, the Exorcist

as Maurizius (Lornas Butler)
Released: 1974-12-18

Twenty years after seducing a businessman, a demonic temptress lays claim to the man's daughter.

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The Unknown Man of Shandigor

as Yvan
Released: 1967-05-01

Crazed scientist Herbert Von Krantz has invented a device to sterilize all nuclear weapons --...

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The Dinosaur and the Baby

as Self
Released: 1967-03-15

An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety...

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08/15 at Home

as CIC-Offizier Ted
Released: 1955-12-30

The third part of Paul May′s "08/15" trilogy based on the novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst takes...

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Succubus

as Admiral Kapp
Released: 1968-04-19

Lorna Green is a performer at a Lisbon nightclub who performs fictionalized acts that involve...

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Nightmares Come at Night

as Howard
Released: 1970-05-26

Diana Lorys, Collette Jack and Soledad Miranda star in this sexy thriller about two alluring...

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Lovers of Devil's Island

as Colonel Ford
Released: 1973-10-25

A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and...

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Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein

as Dracula
Released: 1972-10-17

Dracula kills another innocent victim and Dr. Seward decides it's time to wipe him off the face...

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Adventures of Captain Fabian

as Emile
Released: 1951-10-06

It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss,...

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Lucrèce Borgia

as The chaplain
Released: 1953-10-23

In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and...

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Du Guesclin

as Lancaster
Released: 1949-06-03

A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th...

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The Blood Rose

as Professeur Römer
Released: 1970-09-25

Frédéric Lansac, an artist and botanist, has a wild affair with party girl Moira, but throws her...

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Daughter of Dracula

as Count Karlstein / Dracula
Released: 1972-12-14

Luisa is called to the bed of her dying mother Edith at Karlstein Castle. Before she dies, she...

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as SS Major Karl
Released: 1979-03-15

In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same...

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Howl of the Devil

as Eric
Released: 1988-01-01

Hector Doriani (Paul Naschy) is a stage and screen actor who feels himself living in the shadow...

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The Chips Are Down

as Le chef milicien
Released: 1947-07-01

"Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist...

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All Mixed Up

as Le docteur Belin - un médecin hémiplégique
Released: 1985-03-19

After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.

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The Shadow of Zorro

as El General (credit only)
Released: 1962-12-22

A battle between revolutionary Mexicans and the U.S. cavalry brings Zorro onto the scene to...

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The Garden That Tilts

as Paul
Released: 1975-05-14

Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He...

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The Elusive Pimpernel

as Comte de Tournai
Released: 1950-11-07

A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.

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Sky Battalion

as German officer (uncredited)
Released: 1947-03-05

Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training...

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Terminus

as Monsieur (voice)
Released: 1987-01-28

An established dystopian sport has drivers of a computerized truck driving cross-country to a...

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Revenge in the House of Usher

as Roderic Usher
Released: 1983-03-23

Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor,...

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Doctor Crippen Lives

as uncredited
Released: 1958-02-20

Double murderer Dr. Crippen is using every means possible to search for a manuscript that he...

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Black Angel of the Mississippi

as Ray Terris
Released: 1964-08-24

Early Spanish western. Ramon Torrado’s westerns remain among the most obscure ones. Of his four...

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Autopsia de un criminal

as uncredited
Released: 1963-08-05

Carlos, a reckless card player burdened by debt, becomes involved in a shady affair when an old...

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Angel and Sinner

as Prussian officer in Uville (uncredited)
Released: 1945-10-13

During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset,...

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Angel of Death

as Josef Mengele
Released: 1985-07-23

A Jewish commando unit hunting Nazi war criminals tracks down the infamous Dr. Mengele in the...

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Mr. Orchid

as German Lieutenant Fleischer
Released: 1946-04-30

This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the...

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The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus

as Max von Klaus
Released: 1962-06-15

In the eerie village of Holfen, a series of gruesome murders sparks rumors of a centuries-old...

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The Devil Came from Akasava

as Valet Humphrey
Released: 1971-03-05

A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is...

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Operation Double Cross

as Le professeur
Released: 1965-11-10

In Barcelona, secret agent Antoine Donadieu thwarts the plans of a Nazi scientist.

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Devil and the Angel

as Furet henchman
Released: 1946-10-30

The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great...

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The Sinister Doctor Orloff

as Dr. Orloff
Released: 1984-06-18

The son of the infamous Dr. Orloff clashes with his father when he begins to stalk and dismember...

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The Secret Ways

as Colonel Hidas
Released: 1961-04-01

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael...

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Residence for Spies

as Radek (uncredited)
Released: 1966-01-01

Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women's training camp for western spies, recently...

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Until the Last One

as Philippe Dario, the trapeze artist
Released: 1957-03-20

Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding....

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The Diabolical Dr. Z

as Dr. Vicas
Released: 1966-08-01

A woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous...

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Poison Ivy

as Rudy Saltierra
Released: 1953-05-26

FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss...

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Far from Manhattan

as René Dimanche
Released: 1982-01-27

Christian, an art critic, must write a study on the painter René Dimanche in order to understand...

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Virgin Report

as Anna's Father / The Inquisitor
Released: 1972-01-01

Part documentary, part mockumentary, part sexploitation, all Franco. Starting in the Garden of...

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The Girl with the Whip

as Borgo
Released: 1952-09-25

The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.

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Zorro the Avenger

as The General Clarence
Released: 1962-06-25

Don Jose disguises himself as Zorro, the masked freedom fighter, who tries to protect his people...

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Clandestine

as uncredited
Released: 1946-04-16

A resistance leader is wounded when the Germans raid his underground print shop. He escapes to...

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The Devil Who Limped

as Lord Palmerston
Released: 1948-07-11

The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles...

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Trip to Bangkok, Coffin included

as Coronel Daniel J. Blimp
Released: 1985-06-01

The colonel Daniel Blimp, of the secret British service, travels to Bangkok to investigate the...

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The Death of Empedocles

as Hermokrates
Released: 1987-10-14

Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of...

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Dolls for Sale

as Al Pereira
Released: 1973-11-29

Al Pereira arrives at the "House of Vice" and receives orders to stop spying on three women and...

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Blood on My Shoes

as Albert von Klaus
Released: 1983-01-01

Agents across the globe take turns spying on and double-crossing one another in an attempt to...

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Black Jack

as Schooner Captain
Released: 1950-11-20

A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the...

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Le fou du roi

as Abbot Guibourd
Released: 1984-05-16

Dieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates...

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The Carpathian Mushroom

as Jeremy Fairfax
Released: 1990-03-07

A miraculous mushroom is discovered by a film director's daughter.It would be used to cure an...

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Sex Charade

as General
Released: 1972-05-01

The story revolves around Anne who is held hostage by an escaped maniac from an insane asylum....

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Dr. Wong's Virtual Hell

as Cagliostro
Released: 1999-01-01

Rachel Sheppard is a millionaire’s daughter, kidnapped for ransom and tortured in the weird and...

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X312 - Flight to Hell

as Pedro
Released: 1971-08-20

A plane leaving the turmoil of a South American country in the midst of a revolution crash-lands...

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The Royalists

as Captain Gérard
Released: 1947-03-20

The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were...

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Death at Dawn

as uncredited
Released: 1960-06-07

The prestigious composer Virgilio Delise, suspected of being involved in the death of his...

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Behind These Walls

as German officer (uncredited)
Released: 1946-03-13

June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks...

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Ogroff

as Vampire
Released: 1983-01-01

Ogroff, an AWOL-solider-turned-hermit, lives in the French backwoods, and, still believing war...

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Castle of the Creeping Flesh

as Graf Saxon
Released: 1968-07-25

In an ancient castle, a mad scientist is trying to revive his dead daughter by an operation, but...

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Dossier AST-555

as Inspector Jackson
Released: 1960-11-25

A cabaret is used as a cover for drug trafficking, but the police are unable to uncover the...

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The Theatre of the Matters

as Hermann
Released: 1977-12-07

The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs.

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A Friend Will Come Tonight

as Robert Langlois, le muet
Released: 1946-04-09

Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the...

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The Sword of Vengeance

as uncredited
Released: 1961-11-14

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Fifteen Year Old Captain

as Korda
Released: 1974-07-07

Dick Sand travels aboard the "Pilgrim" when, following dramatic events, the ship becomes without...

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Heiße Ware

as Heinrich Strasser
Released: 1959-06-04

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Un cas intéressant

as Pr. Schroeder
Released: 1963-01-15

Adaptation for TV of the Dino Buzzati play "Un caso clinico". A modern Kafkaesque horror story...

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The Hotheads

as Mr. Gorsi, The Boss.
Released: 1967-11-08

Truck drivers hauling supplies are caught in the battle between the French and Arabs in this...

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Rendezvous

as Howard
Released: 1960-07-13

In France, during the Second World War, journalist Paul Roy is a member of the Resistance, while...

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The Inn of Sin

as Ducourt
Released: 1949-12-15

Two murders are committed in an inn for the possession of a bag containing a fortune.

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Atomic Agent

as William Dantoren
Released: 1959-11-04

Murderous foreign agents are after a scientist who has invented an atomic engine that could...

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The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic

as (uncredited)
Released: 1946-07-15

The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, "The Uncatcable Frédéric", a sort of Arsène...

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The River of Three Junks

as Igor Kourguine
Released: 1957-01-25

In Saigon, the heads of the French counter-espionage network replace the secretary of dangerous...

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Phantom of the Big Tent

as Armand LaRue, König der Luft
Released: 1954-12-21

Mr. Rossi and Mr. Capelli, co-owners of a successful traveling circus, have a rivalry over the...

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The Adventures of Sylvia Couski

as uncredited
Released: 1975-03-12

The ex-wife of a famous sculptor convinces her lover to remove one of his sculptures from an...

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Secret Document: Vienna

as Colonel von Pennwitz
Released: 1950-08-08

During the Great War, in Austria, an officer was shot on the orders of his superior von...

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Alert Nights

as English aviator
Released: 1946-09-25

Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of...

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Black Sin

as Manes
Released: 1989-05-01

A companion piece to the earlier film ‘The Death of Empedocles’, 'Black Sin' is an adaptation of...

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Hey Stranger

as Old officer
Released: 1994-01-01

An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find...

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Pensione Edelweiss

as Général Funck
Released: 1959-03-10

A man who was injured in an accident has a visitor in his hospital. The visitor suggests a...

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Colonel Durand

as uncredited
Released: 1948-08-25

In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who...

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The Orgies of Dr. Orloff

as Dam Gaillimh
Released: 1967-10-04

A doctor invites his relatives to his castle, all the while planning to murder them when they...

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The Complex of Toulon

as Charles Toulon
Released: 1996-04-10

It is due to some professional obligations that brothers Charles and Fredi turn their attention...

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Le Petit Jacques

as Daniel Mortal
Released: 1953-09-03

Noël Rambert is overwhelmed by fate. Marthe, his wife, has left him. His son, little Jacques,...

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Première brigade criminelle

as Steven Hals
Released: 1961-07-19

Commissaire Masson tells a young journalist about the only failure of his career: the wife of a...

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Hotbed of Sin

as Charles
Released: 1951-07-20

A couple of dancers performs in a night club. The man is jealous of Gina, his partner,and keeps...

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Alert in the Canary Islands

as Maxime Bellac
Released: 1956-06-27

Maxime Bellac owns an art gallery. He has an affair with Michelle. One night when they have...

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Pas de souris dans le business

as Robert Leperque
Released: 1955-04-08

Without seeming to touch it, journalist Trupeau is interested in the doings of Mireille, a...

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Si ça vous chante

as uncredited
Released: 1952-09-05

A fashionable singer makes a stopover in the harbor of Cannes, while a radio journalist...

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The Mad Dog

as Fred
Released: 1966-09-02

Claude Brasseur plays a villain on the run from both the police and the mob. Good atmosphere in...

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Operation Thunder

as Roger Kervec
Released: 1956-06-13

The inhabitants of a small provincial town are requisitioned to take part in the French army's...

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La melodía misteriosa

as Inspector Revel
Released: 1956-10-24

An old violin maker has been killed and the investigators have only one clue: on the night of...

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Mr. Scrupule, Gangster

as Rolande's friend
Released: 1953-08-12

Mr. Scrupule is a mild-mannered smuggler operating on the coast of Nice. If it hadn't been for...

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Ce que cherche Jacques

as uncredited
Released: 1970-01-01

A moral adventure: one sees friendships being born and being discarded, under the pressure of...

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El fugitivo de Amberes

as Bell Fermer
Released: 1955-05-16

A thief steals a Jewel in France and travels to Barcelona to try to sell it. Both the Police and...

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The Long Vacation of Lotte H. Eisner

as Self
Released: 1979-11-30

Historian, author, and movie critic Lotte H. Eisner is the subject of this documentary. She...

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Don't Change Hands

as Jacques des Grieux
Released: 1975-06-16

A well-known politician receives a tape showing her son in a porno movie. She decides to hire a...

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Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

as Ricardo Solesta
First aired: 1967-09-15

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series...

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Graf Luckner

as Mercer
First aired: 1973-02-20

Between the first and second World Wars, we portray glorified and renown naval sea officer Felix...

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