Biography
John Keith Vernon (born Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Vernon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Complete Filmography

Delgo
2008
as Judge Nohrin (voice)
In a divided land, it takes a rebellious boy and his clandestine love for a Princess of an opposing race to stop a war orchestrated by a power hungry ...

Animal House: The Inside Story
2008
as Self
Documentary about the making of Animal House

Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
as Mal Reese in Point Blank (archive footage)
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen ...

Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
2003
as Rupert Thorne (voice)
As if the Penguin wasn't enough to contend with, a new vigilante has surfaced in Gotham City, and her strong-arm tactics give Batman cause for concern...

Warrior Angels
2002
as Ansgar / Bladrick
Elizabeth of Cooke (Joanna Pacula), a beautiful and valiant warrior returns from the Crusades to discover that her son Peter (Sander Kolosov) has been...

Sorority Boys
2002
as Old Man
After being falsely accused of stealing the budget for their annual cocktail cruise, three very different fraternity brothers are kicked out of their ...
Welcome to America
2002
as Det. Golding
A gang of Estonian bank robbers in Los Angeles.

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses ...

Stageghost
2000
as Slim
A group of people are trapped inside a stagecoach station under attack by spirits.

Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales
1999
as Self
John Milius narrates this featurette on the Clint Eastwood classic.

Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure
1999
as Principal Scotti
In this live-action musical comedy, Baby Huey, the lovable seven foot tall duckling, is taken in by a caring little boy named Nick and his kind but su...

The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
1998
as Self - Dean Wormer
This documentary, created for the Animal House (1978) collector's edition DVD, is composed of a collection of new interviews with the cast and crew be...

Wojeck: Out of the Fire
1997
as Dr Steve Wojeck
Former coroner Dr. Steve Wojeck returns to Toronto after 21 years working at a clinic in the Congo. While he reunites with his family, he gets embroil...

Family of Cops
1995
as Frank Rampola
Paul Fein is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie is also a cop. Paul is assigned to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman, and he s...

Malicious
1995
as Detective Pronzini
A mystery woman turns vengeful after a college athlete dumps her following a one-night stand.

Paris or Somewhere
1994
as Old Mahon
A confessed killer wanders into a small community in the Canadian prairies.

Hostage for a Day
1994
as V.D. Regan
Harried suburban man Warren Kooey fakes a hostage situation in order to get the money he needs to escape his humdrum life.

The Forget-Me-Not Murders
1994
as Boyce
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman's god-daughter.

Sodbusters
1994
as Slade Cantrell
A group of homesteaders in 1875 are harassed by an evil, land-grabbing, gunslinging cattleman until a stranger with a mysterious past comes to their a...

The Naked Truth
1992
as Von Bulo
Two friends, both named Frank, accidentally obtain a suitcase at the airport. It contains incriminating evidence against a mafia boss, who sends his T...

The Woman Who Sinned
1991
as Lieutenant Girvetz
A woman contemplates having an affair, which leads her into a web of deceit, suspense, and murder.

Mob Story
1989
as Don "Luce" Luciano
On the run from a U.S. Senate investigation, New York mob boss Don Luciano flees to his Canadian hometown and old flame Dolores in this kooky, disorga...

Bail Out
1989
as Mr. Ridgeway
A bail bondman hires three L.A. bounty hunters to protect a wealthy heiress, after her ex-boyfriend with connections to a drug cartel is murdered. Whe...

Hostile Takeover
1989
as Mayor
A man takes three co-workers hostage while working overtime on Thanksgiving weekend. He has no demands.

Afghanistan: The Last War Bus
1989
as Ken Ross
Soldiers find themselves trapped and in mortal danger behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. Their only hope for survival is to board a specially-designed...

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
1988
as Mr. Big
Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crimel...

Deadly Stranger
1988
as Mr. Mitchell
An undercover cop infiltrates an illegal labor racket on a remote Texan/Mexican border farm. After falling for the farm owner's mistress, the two disc...

Killer Klowns from Outer Space
1988
as Curtis Mooney
Aliens disguised as clowns crash land on Earth in a rural town to capture unsuspecting victims in cotton candy cocoons for later consumption.

Dixie Lanes
1988
as Elmer Sinclair
Small town America, 1945. The boys are coming home, as is Clarence Laidlaw who served overseas in lieu of serving time in prison. Chaos and confusion ...

Blue Monkey
1987
as Roger Levering
While working in a greenhouse, a man receives an insect bite after touching an exotic plant. Immediately, he falls ill and is taken to an emergency ro...

Terminal Exposure
1987
as Mr. Karrothers
Two beach combing-shutterbugs accidentally capture a murder on film. Now detectives, the boys set out to capture a murderess shot only from behind, wi...

Nightstick
1987
as Adam Beardsly
A cop tries to prevent a gang of extortionists from blowing up New York City with nitroglycerin.

Ernest Goes to Camp
1987
as Sherman Krader
Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance counselor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenil...

Fuzzbucket
1986
as Principal
In the vein of "Harvey", an invisible creature befriends a 12 year old boy. Of course, no one else can see him nor believes in him.

Fraternity Vacation
1985
as Chief Ferret
A nerd gains the friendship of two of his frat brothers when his dad offers them his condo for the week in Palm Springs, and also offers the fraternit...

Doin' Time
1985
as Big Mac
Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves.

Savage Streets
1984
as Principal Underwood
Brenda, vivacious leader of the "Satins", a fun-loving group of pretty high school girls, searches for deadly vengeance against the gang members who a...

The Blood of Others
1984
as Charles
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann...

Jungle Warriors
1984
as Vito Mastranga
A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. Their plane is shot down and they are captured by a...

Little Red Riding Hood
1983
as Father
A sheltered but adventurous young woman finds trouble when she encounters a wolf.

Chained Heat
1983
as Warden Bacman
Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after driving drunk and killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming w...

Curtains
1983
as Jonathan Stryker
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

Airplane II: The Sequel
1982
as Dr. Stone
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle...

The Kinky Coaches and the Pom Pom Pussycats
1981
as Coach "Bulldog" Malone
Two long-time rival high school football coaches lead their respective teams into battle for the city football championship. However, before the openi...

Heavy Metal
1981
as Prosecutor (voice)
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

It Rained All Night the Day I Left
1980
as Killian
A tough rich female ranch owner in Africa wants to cut off the water supply to the locals, since she holds them responsible for the murder of her husb...

Herbie Goes Bananas
1980
as Prindle
The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.

Fantastica
1980
as Jim McPherson
In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and fa...

Animal House
1978
as Dean Vernon Wormer
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

Golden Rendezvous
1977
as Luis Carreras
Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero when the floating casino on which he works is hijacke...

Angela
1977
as Benjamin Kincaid
A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still want...

Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
1977
as Dr. Orrin Helgerson
A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her toddler daughter.

The Uncanny
1977
as Pomeroy (segment 3 "Hollywood 1936")
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate atte...

A Special Day
1977
as Emanuele Taberi
Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.

Drum
1976
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.

The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976
as Fletcher
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - ...

Matt Helm
1975
as Harry Paine
In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involve...

The Swiss Family Robinson
1975
as Charles Forsythe
A family shipwrecked on a deserted island tries to survive the best way they can. All is going well until a gang of pirates arrives on the island look...

Brannigan
1975
as Ben Larkin
A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings Am...

The Impostor
1975
as Sheriff Turner
An ex-Army intelligence agent is hired to impersonate a rich builder who has been marked for assassination. While impersonating the builder, he discov...

Virginia Hill
1974
as Nick Rubanos
The story of Virginia Hill, a former prostitute who was the girlfriend of '40s killer and gangster Bugsy Siegel.

Sweet Movie
1974
as Aristote Alplanalpe, AKA M. Kapital
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.

W
1974
as Arnie Felson
Is a young woman being stalked by her ex, or is she imagining things?

Mousey
1974
as David Richardson
A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife.

The Black Windmill
1974
as McKee
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on hi...

The Questor Tapes
1974
as Geoffrey Darro
Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he's disappeared and half of hi...

The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping
1973
as Julian Peck
A criminal organization known as OSO specializes in kidnapping high ranking U.S. representatives. Although Steve Austin has already thwarted one of th...

Charley Varrick
1973
as Maynard Boyle
Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large ...

Nightmare Step
1973
as Allan
The cure is more dangerous than the malady as a mild-mannered woman who is slowly summoning the strength to rid herself of a cruel and domineering hus...

Hunter
1973
as David Hunter / Praetorius
A fatal crash at a racetrack injures a government agent and exposes an enemy brainwashing scheme.

Fear Is the Key
1972
as Vyland
A deep-sea salvage expert enacts an elaborate plan to infiltrate and take revenge on a criminal organization that dealt him a foul misdeed.

Journey
1972
as Boulder Allin
A woman with a troubled past is saved from drowning in a river and brought to a strange community hidden in the woods.

Dirty Harry
1971
as The Mayor
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement...

Face-Off
1971
as Fred Wares
A love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player and a hippie folk singer. Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with th...

Escape
1971
as Doctor Charles Walding
A scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to sto...

One More Train to Rob
1971
as Timothy Xavier Nolan
Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the g...

Topaz
1969
as Rico Parra
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and...

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
1969
as Hacker
While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kills the man in self-defense, triggering a massive m...

Justine
1969
as Nessim
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, ...

Trial Run
1969
as Leo D'Agosta
A slice-of-life drama involving a young lawyer, his adoring secretary who tries to help to advance his career, and his employer, a famed lawyer burden...

Point Blank
1967
as Mal Reese
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money ...

The Rock
1967
as Self (uncredited)
A promotional two-part short for John Boorman's "Point Blank" shot on and around Alcatraz. Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson and former inmate Joe Giles sh...

Nobody Waved Goodbye
1964
as Lot Supervisor
A teenage boy rebels against parental authority and must face a harsh reality when he tries to live on his own.

The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk
1964
A feature made out of two episodes from the 1958 TV series "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans."

Alexander Galt: The Stubborn Idealist
1962
as Alexander Galt
For Alexander Galt it was the middle of the road, until he saw some hope for his dream of a united Canada. What was he like, this stubborn idealist? H...

Georges-Étienne Cartier - The Lion of Québec
1962
as Galt
This short biopic profiles Montreal lawyer-turned-politician George-Étienne Cartier as he campaigns to unite English and French Canada under Confedera...

Tourist Go Home
1959
as Himself
This short film is a humorous look at the tourist industry in Canada. In tongue-in-cheek fashion, it points out the importance of good public relation...

Fires of Envy
1957
A dramatization of Canadian author W.O. Mitchell's penetrating story about the racial prejudice encountered by a Polish immigrant farmer in a rural Sa...

1984
1956
as Big Brother (uncredited)
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Object of Desire
N/A
A beautiful young soap opera star is stalked and terrorized by an obsessive admirer.