Biografia

In two movies he was the French voice of Oliver Hardy (from Laurel & Hardy).

Lived in Paris during World War II. After the Nazis occupied France, Vernon was conscripted as an on-air presenter for the regime-controlled TV station Fernsehsender Paris, since he was of a neutral nationality (Swiss) and bilingual.

Was an avid photographer, and sometimes worked as a behind-the-scenes and stills photographer on film sets.

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 heavies.

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.