FrameThrower · Actors · Howard Vernon
Howard Vernon
6 films · 345 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1956–1981
Born 15 July 1908 · Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany] · died 25 July 1996
Howard Vernon, 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.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 345 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Howard takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 43% low key — the look of the work Howard takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 345 frames from Howard Vernon's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.