John Vernon
Birthday: 1932-02-24
Place of Birth: Zehner, Saskatchewan, Canada
Biography: John Keith Vernon (February 24, 1932 – February 1, 2005) was a Canadian actor. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada. He was best known for playing Dean Wormer in Animal House, the Mayor in Dirty Harry and Fletcher in The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Movies
Dirty Harry
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for...
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Sweet Movie
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and end...
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Topaz
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French int...
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Airplane II: The Sequel
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past...
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The Outlaw Josey Wales
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to tra...
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The Blood of Others
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for th...
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Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
As if the Penguin wasn't enough to contend with, a new vigilante has surfaced in Gotham City, and he...
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Animal House
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, bu...
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Fraternity Vacation
A nerd gains the friendship of two of his frat brothers when his dad offers them his condo for the w...
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Herbie Goes Bananas
The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico....
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Fear Is the Key
A deep-sea salvage expert enacts an elaborate plan to infiltrate and take revenge on a criminal orga...
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Point Blank
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to...
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Charley Varrick
Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amoun...
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Brannigan
A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradit...
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Georges-Étienne Cartier - The Lion of Québec
This short biopic profiles Montreal lawyer-turned-politician George-Étienne Cartier as he campaigns ...
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Alexander Galt: The Stubborn Idealist
For Alexander Galt it was the middle of the road, until he saw some hope for his dream of a united C...
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Tourist Go Home
This short film is a humorous look at the tourist industry in Canada. In tongue-in-cheek fashion, it...
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A Special Day
Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day o...
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Bail Out
A bail bondman hires three L.A. bounty hunters to protect a wealthy heiress, after her ex-boyfriend ...
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Justine
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewa...
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Savage Streets
Brenda, vivacious leader of the "Satins", a fun-loving group of pretty high school girls, searches f...
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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kil...
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The Questor Tapes
Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android sup...
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Aliens disguised as clowns crash land on Earth in a rural town to capture unsuspecting victims in co...
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. J...
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Curtains
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious ma...
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Golden Rendezvous
Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero whe...
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Chained Heat
Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after driving drunk and ki...
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Ernest Goes to Camp
Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance counse...
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Malicious
A mystery woman turns vengeful after a college athlete dumps her following a one-night stand....
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Los Angeles Plays Itself
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to ...
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Doin' Time
Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo...
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Nightstick
A cop tries to prevent a gang of extortionists from blowing up New York City with nitroglycerin....
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The Uncanny
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatu...
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Family of Cops
Paul Fein is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie is also a cop. Paul is assigned to investiga...
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Jungle Warriors
A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. T...
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Afghanistan: The Last War Bus
Soldiers find themselves trapped and in mortal danger behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. Their only ...
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The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats
Two long-time rival high school football coaches lead their respective teams into battle for the cit...
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Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales
John Milius narrates this featurette on the Clint Eastwood classic....
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Face-Off
A love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union i...
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One More Train to Rob
Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in ...
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The Naked Truth
Two friends, both named Frank, accidentally obtain a suitcase at the airport. It contains incriminat...
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Escape
A scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite es...
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The Rock
A promotional two-part short for John Boorman's "Point Blank" shot on and around Alcatraz. Lee Marv...
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Journey
A woman with a troubled past is saved from drowning in a river and brought to a strange community hi...
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Hostage for a Day
Harried suburban man Warren Kooey fakes a hostage situation in order to get the money he needs to es...
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The Black Windmill
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he ca...
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Warrior Angels
Elizabeth of Cooke (Joanna Pacula), a beautiful and valiant warrior returns from the Crusades to dis...
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Terminal Exposure
Two beach combing-shutterbugs accidentally capture a murder on film. Now detectives, the boys set ou...
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Paris or Somewhere
A confessed killer wanders into a small community in the Canadian prairies....
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Nightmare Step
The cure is more dangerous than the malady as a mild-mannered woman who is slowly summoning the stre...
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The Impostor
An ex-Army intelligence agent is hired to impersonate a rich builder who has been marked for assassi...
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The Woman Who Sinned
A woman contemplates having an affair, which leads her into a web of deceit, suspense, and murder....
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It Rained All Night the Day I Left
A tough rich female ranch owner in Africa wants to cut off the water supply to the locals, since she...
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Blue Monkey
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immedia...
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Dixie Lanes
Small town America, 1945. The boys are coming home, as is Clarence Laidlaw who served overseas in li...
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Deadly Stranger
An undercover cop infiltrates an illegal labor racket on a remote Texan/Mexican border farm. After f...
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Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her tod...
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The Forget-Me-Not Murders
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman's god-d...
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Sodbusters
A group of homesteaders in 1875 are harassed by an evil, land-grabbing, gunslinging cattleman until ...
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Nobody Waved Goodbye
A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live ...
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1984
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by fall...
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Object of Desire
A beautiful young soap opera star is stalked and terrorized by an obsessive admirer....
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Little Red Riding Hood
A sheltered but adventurous young woman finds trouble when she encounters a wolf....
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Mob Story
On the run from a U.S. Senate investigation, New York mob boss Don Luciano flees to his Canadian hom...
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Drum
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of ...
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Heavy Metal
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark ...
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Stageghost
A group of people are trapped inside a stagecoach station under attack by spirits....
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The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk
A feature made out of two episodes from the 1958 TV series "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans."...
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Fuzzbucket
In the vein of "Harvey", an invisible creature befriends a 12 year old boy. Of course, no one else c...
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Matt Helm
In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired...
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Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure
In this live-action musical comedy, Baby Huey, the lovable seven foot tall duckling, is taken in by ...
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The Swiss Family Robinson
A family shipwrecked on a deserted island tries to survive the best way they can. All is going well ...
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Virginia Hill
The story of Virginia Hill, a former prostitute who was the girlfriend of '40s killer and gangster B...
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Fantastica
In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involv...
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Hostile Takeover
A man takes three co-workers hostage while working overtime on Thanksgiving weekend. He has no deman...
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The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood i...
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The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping
A criminal organization known as OSO specializes in kidnapping high ranking U.S. representatives. Al...
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The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
This documentary, created for the Animal House (1978) collector's edition DVD, is composed of a coll...
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Fires of Envy
A dramatization of Canadian author W.O. Mitchell's penetrating story about the racial prejudice enco...
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Angela
A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so s...
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Wojeck: Out of the Fire
Former coroner Dr. Steve Wojeck returns to Toronto after 21 years working at a clinic in the Congo. ...
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Sorority Boys
After being falsely accused of stealing the budget for their annual cocktail cruise, three very diff...
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Trial Run
A slice-of-life drama involving a young lawyer, his adoring secretary who tries to help to advance h...
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Hunter
A fatal crash at a racetrack injures a government agent and exposes an enemy brainwashing scheme....
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Delgo
In a divided land, it takes a rebellious boy and his clandestine love for a Princess of an opposing ...
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Rewrite for Murder
Unaired CBS television pilot from 1991 starring George Clooney and Pam Dawber was an attempt at a br...
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Where Are They Now?: A Delta Alumni Update
A follow up on the lives of the Faber students in Animal House....
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Rat Tales
While consuming several bottles of liquor, a veteran member of Alberta's Rat Patrol shows his younge...
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