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Howard Vernon
Howard Vernon (15 July 1908 – 25 July 1996) was a Swiss actor. In 1961, he became a favorite actor of Spanish film director Jesús Franco and began starring in many low-budget horror and erotic films produced in Spain and France. After portraying Franco's mad doctor character Dr. Orloff, he eventually appeared in a total of 40 Franco films, in addition to his roles for numerous other directors. Life and career Vernon was born Mario Lippert in Baden-Baden, Germany, 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 post-war 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 rough-hewn looks and Swiss accent, he was subsequently relegated to playing gangsters and heavie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden () is a spa town in the states of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg, south-western Germany, at the north-western border of the Black Forest mountain range on the small river Oos (river), Oos, ten kilometres (six miles) east of the Rhine, the border with France, and forty kilometres (twenty-five miles) north-east of Strasbourg, France. In 2021, the town became part of the transnational World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name "Great Spa Towns of Europe", because of its famous spas and architecture that exemplifies the popularity of spa towns in Europe in the 18th through 20th centuries. Name The springs at Baden-Baden were known to the Roman Empire, Romans as ("The Waters") and ("Aurelia (name), Aurelia-of-the-Waters") after M. Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus. In modern German, ' is a noun meaning "bathing" but Baden, the original name of the town, derives from an earlier plural, plural form of ' (Bathing, "bath"). (Modern German uses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Warning (1946 Film)
''Night Warning'' (French title: ''Nuits d'alerte'') is a 1946 French war drama film directed by Léon Mathot and starring Hélène Perdrière, Roger Pigaut and Pierre Dudan.Rège p.99 The film's sets were designed by the art director Roland Quignon. Synopsis A waitress helps an escaped French resistance fighter to evade capture and make it to Britain. Cast * Hélène Perdrière as Hélène * Roger Pigaut as Pierre * Pierre Dudan as Klaus * Philippe Hersent as Stefan Hess * Régine Montlaur as Lily * Marcelle Monthil * Henry Murray * Pierre Collet * Howard Vernon as L'aviateur anglais * Abel Tarride as L'aubergiste * Alexandre Mihalesco * Georges Jamin * Marc Cassot * Charles Lemontier as Le cheminot * Jane Marken as Madame Morizot * Marcel Delaître Marcel Delaître (1888–1963) was a French film and stage actor.Crisp p.94 Selected filmography * '' Happy Hearts'' (1932) * '' Poliche'' (1934) * ''Street Without a Name'' (1934) * ''Crime and Punis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Girl With The Whip (1952 Film)
''The Girl with the Whip'' (French: ''La fille au fouet'') is a 1952 Swiss drama film directed by Jean Dréville and starring Michel Simon, Gaby Morlay and Colette Darfeuil.Rège p.780 The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Dumesnil. It was shot at the Boulogne Studios in Paris. A separate German version, ''The Secret of the Mountain Lake'', was also made. Cast * Michel Simon as Le tuteur d'Angelina * Gaby Morlay as Lamberta * Colette Darfeuil as Lorenza * Pauline Carton as La bonne * Véronique Deschamps as Angelina / Pietro * Marcelle Géniat as Madame Pons * Lydie Lord * Claire Gérard as La femme de Borgo * Roger Burkart * Andrews Engelmann as Le directeur de la prison * Mariette Ellys * Rudy Lenoir * Abel Barthelemo as L'accordéoniste * Philippe Derevel as Le ténor * Howard Vernon as Borgo * Michel Barbey Michel Barbey (1927-) is a French stage, film, and television actor known for his comic roles. He starred in the 1950 film '' Dominique' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Of The Mountain Lake
''The Secret of the Mountain Lake'' (german: Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee) is a 1952 drama film directed by Jean Dréville and starring Harriet Geßner, Lil Dagover and Fredy Scheim.Bock & Bergfelder p. 78 It was made as a co-production between France, Switzerland and West Germany. A separate French-language film, ''The Girl with the Whip'', was also released. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location around Verbier, Saas-Fee and the Forest of Fontainebleau. Cast * Harriet Geßner as Angelina * Lil Dagover as Lamberta Pons * Fredy Scheim as Bürgermeister * Marcelle Géniat as Maria Pons, die Großmutter * Michel Barbey as Calix * Roger Burckhardt as Ein Schmuggler * Ann Berger as Lauretta * Andrews Engelmann as Gefängnisdirektor * Paul Röthlisberger * Howard Vernon Howard Vernon (15 July 1908 – 25 July 1996) was a Swiss actor. In 1961, he became a favorite actor of Spanish film director Jesús Franco and began starring in many low-budget horr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventures Of Captain Fabian
''Adventures of Captain Fabian'' or ''Adventure in New Orleans'' is a 1951 American adventure film directed by William Marshall and starring Errol Flynn, Micheline Presle, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead and Victor Francen. Plot George Brissac owns a large country mansion in old New Orleans in 1860. He is engaged but is having an affair with a French Creole girl Lea, a maid in his household who has a gypsy aunt, Jezebel. George stands to inherit the estate from his childless uncle as long he keeps out of trouble. One day when he is out the maid throws a huge party in his house and everyone gets drunk. One male admirer is rebuffed. When George returns he kisses her and angers her admirer. A fight ensues and George is briefly knocked out. The admirer tries to kiss the girl and she hits him repeatedly on the head with George's cane and kills him. George decides to fabricate a story to keep out of any blame, and lies when the girl goes on trial for murder. Meanwhile Captain Fabian r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Jack (1950 Film)
''Black Jack'', also known as ''Captain Blackjack'', is a 1950 adventure film written and directed by Julien Duvivier and starring George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Roc and Dennis Wyndham. Set on the Mediterranean, it tells the story of a man who does evil deeds. Although his conscience is awakened and he has fallen in love, escaping his past proves impossible. The English-language film was a co-production between France, Spain and the United States. Plot Demobilised after World War II, Mike Alexander pursues any deals, legal or not, which will make him a fortune. He has acquired a yacht in Mallorca, where he hears of a cargo ship in difficulty, the ''Chalcis'', which is full of refugees. He agrees to take the six richest off the ship, but is sickened by the distress of the rest and tells the captain to put them ashore on an isolated island. He also sees an attractive young woman, Ingrid, who refuses his offer of a free trip to safety. The captain scuttles the ship in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fighting Pimpernel
''The Elusive Pimpernel'' is a 1950 British period adventure film by the British-based director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the novel ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' (1905) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. It was released in the United States under the title ''The Fighting Pimpernel''. The picture stars David Niven as Sir Percy Blakeney (a.k.a. The Scarlet Pimpernel), Margaret Leighton as Marguerite Blakeney and features Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack and Robert Coote. Originally intended to be a musical, the film was re-worked as a light-hearted drama. Plot During the French Revolution, the Scarlet Pimpernel, who is really Sir Percy Blakeney in disguise, risks his life to rescue French aristocrats from the guillotine and take them across the English Channel to safety. As cover, Sir Percy poses as a fop at Court, and curries favour with the Prince of Wales by providing advice about fashion, but secretly he leads The League, a group of noblemen with simila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man On The Eiffel Tower
''The Man on the Eiffel Tower'' is a 1950 American Ansco Color film noir mystery film directed by Burgess Meredith and starring Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Meredith, and Robert Hutton. It is based on the 1931 novel '' La Tête d'un homme'' (''A Man's Head'') by Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his detective Jules Maigret. The film was co-produced by Tone and Irving Allen as A&T Film Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Much of the outdoor action occurs in various familiar Paris locales. The film is also known as ''L'homme de la tour Eiffel'' in France. Plot In the streets of Paris a myopic knife grinder Heurtin (Burgess Meredith) is berated by his partner for his lack of money. As she storms away, she bumps into Kirby ( Robert Hutton), an unemployed playboy who is having an affair. As he enters a restaurant to meet his wife (Patricia Roc), Kirby is warned by the waiter that both wife and his mistress are waiting for him at the bar. The nature of the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Du Guesclin (film)
''Du Guesclin'' (french: Du Guesclin) is a French film from 1948, directed and written by Bernard de Latour, starring Fernand Gravey. The film features Louis de Funès as an astrologer. The film is a biopic about Bertrand du Guesclin, a baron, Constable of France, and high-ranked officer in the French Army of the 14th Century, who fights in the Hundred Years' War.Hart, Kevin J. ''The Reel Middle Ages : American, western and eastern European, Middle Eastern, and Asian films about medieval Europe''. Jefferson, NC : McFarland, 2006 (p.288). Cast * Fernand Gravey: Bertrand du Guesclin * Junie Astor: Tiphaine Raguenel * Ketti Gallian: Jeanne de Mallemains * Noël Roquevert: Jagu, Bertrand's friend * Gérard Oury: Charles V of France * Gisèle Casadesus: Jeanne, the Countess of Penthièvre (Joan, Duchess of Brittany) * Louis de Funès: astrologer * Marcel Delaître: Chandos * Léon Bary: Léon Barry * Gisèle Casadesus: Sylvie * Howard Vernon Howard Vernon (15 July 1908 &ndas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Silence De La Mer (1949 Film)
''Le Silence de la mer'' (literal English translation: ''The Silence of the Sea'') is a 1949 film by Jean-Pierre Melville. It was his first feature film and was based on the 1942 book of the same name by "Vercours" (the pen name of Jean Bruller). Set during WWII in occupied France, the story concerns the relationship of a Frenchman (Jean-Marie Robain) and his niece ( Nicole Stéphane) with a German lieutenant, Werner von Ebrennac ( Howard Vernon), who is billetted in their house. Most of the film was actually shot inside Bruller's own home outside of Paris. Plot In occupied France early in 1941, when Werner von Ebrennac, a German lieutenant with a limp, is billetted in a house in a small village that a retired man shares with his adult niece, the pair, without having to discuss it, agree never to speak to or acknowledge the unwanted intruder. Most nights as the uncle smokes his pipe and the niece does some sewing by the fire, the officer, at first dressed in his uniform and la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacha Guitry
Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French actor, Lucien Guitry, and followed his father into the theatrical profession. He became known for his stage performances, particularly in boulevardier roles. He was also a prolific playwright, writing 115 plays throughout his career. He was married five times, always to rising actresses whose careers he furthered. Probably his best-known wife was Yvonne Printemps to whom he was married between 1919 and 1932. Guitry's plays range from historical dramas to contemporary light comedies. Some have musical scores, by composers including André Messager and Reynaldo Hahn. When silent films became popular Guitry avoided them, finding the lack of spoken dialogue fatal to dramatic impact. From the 1930s to the end of his life he enthusiastically embraced the cinema, making as many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Diable Boiteux (film)
''The Lame Devil'' (UK: ''The Devil Who Limped'';Tertiary sources: BFI, ''The Lame Devil''. original title: ', French for "the devil with a limp") is a 1948 French black-and-white historical film written and directed by Sacha Guitry. A biography of the titular French diplomat Talleyrand (1754–1838), it stars Guitry in the lead role. Originally forbidden by the French censor and turned into a play, the film went on to be released into six languages. Film Description The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron. The movie is often noted for its opening sequence: after showing the birthplace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
