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John Vernon is a Actor Canadien born on 24 february 1932 at Zehner (Canada)
John Keith Vernon (February 24, 1932 – February 1, 2005) was a Canadian actor and an Environmental Resource Program Manager at the WV DEP. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada.
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Birth name Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz
Nationality Canada
Birth 24 february 1932 at Zehner (Canada)
Death 1 february 2005 (at 72 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality Canada
Birth 24 february 1932 at Zehner (Canada)
Death 1 february 2005 (at 72 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
John Keith Vernon (February 24, 1932 – February 1, 2005) was a Canadian actor and an Environmental Resource Program Manager at the WV DEP. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada.
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Terminal Exposure (1987)
, 1h43Directed by Nico Mastorakis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joe Estevez, Ted Lange, Carol Ficatier, John Vernon, Patrick St. Esprit, Tara Buckman
Roles Mr. Karrothers
Rating44%
Blue Monkey (1987)
, 1h36Directed by William Fruet
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about insects
Actors Steve Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, John Vernon, Joe Flaherty, Sarah Polley, Robin Duke
Roles Roger Levering
Rating48%
Un vieil homme se fait piquer par un insecte en touchant une plante tropicale inconnue dans une serre. Il tombe malade quelques minutes plus tard et se fait transporter à l'hôpital le plus proche.
Ernest Goes to Camp (1987)
, 1h32Directed by John R. Cherry III
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Jim Varney, John Vernon, Iron Eyes Cody, Gailard Sartain, Scott Menville, Jacob Vargas
Roles Sherman Krader
Rating54%
A pow wow opening features a medicine man tossing a knife and tomahawk at a young brave warrior to test his faith in the Great One and true courage. He also shoots an arrow at him to test his purity of heart. Jim Varney reprises his role of Ernest P. Worrell, working as a maintenance man at Kamp Kikakee and hoping to become a counselor. With his typical enthusiasm, he pours himself into the role and quickly becomes a valuable addition to the staff, in particular for his passion at learning the specialized sign language used by Kikakee's owner, Chief St. Cloud (Iron Eyes Cody), who does not speak English.
Fuzzbucket (1986)
Directed by Mick Garris
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Chris Hebert, Phil Fondacaro, Fran Ryan, Joe Regalbuto, Wendy Phillips, Robyn Lively
Roles Principal
Rating74%
In a world where 12-year-old Michael Gerber has no friends, he finds that sometimes, the best friendships come from within. Michael is an awkward young boy who is about to start junior high and has no real friends. His only companion is an imaginary friend he calls Fuzzbucket. In the first act of the film, both the viewer and every character except Michael is left to make the assumption that Fuzzbucket is an imaginary friend. When Michael cooks up a strange, green concoction for his friend to drink, Fuzzbucket turns visibile again. Astonished to see Fuzzbucket for the first time, young Michael becomes overjoyed. His newly visible friend exuberantly leaps around Michael's treehouse in celebration. The two friends share a heartfelt moment in his treehouse when Fuzzbucket traces their hands with crayons, a ceremony that makes them blood brothers. At Fuzzbucket's urgent request for "Toons! Toons!" Michael switches on his television and the two sit together watching classic cartoons, and they soon drift off to sleep. Hours later, Fuzzbucket wakens and insists on knowing the time. He urgently cries to Michael, "How many clocks? How many clocks!?" Fearing that if he doesn't make it back home in time he will turn invisible again, only this time it will be forever. Fuzzbucket leaps out of the treehouse and escapes into the woods. Michael, afraid of losing his one and only friend, takes off after him.
Fraternity Vacation (1985)
, 1h34Directed by James Frawley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Stephen Geoffreys, Tim Robbins, Sheree J. Wilson, Cameron Dye, Leigh McCloskey, Amanda Bearse
Roles Chief Ferret
Rating53%
Wendell Tvedt est réputé pour son extrême maladresse. Ses parents décident de l'envoyer en vacances à la plage en demandant à deux de ses camarades de lycée de s'occuper de lui...
Doin' Time (1985)
, 1h21Directed by George Mendeluk
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jeff Altman, Drew Bundini Brown, Colleen Camp, Melanie Chartoff, Robert Clotworthy, Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Roles Big Mac
Rating47%
The Blood of Others (1984)
, 2h15Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Lambert Wilson, Samuel Fuller, Stéphane Audran
Roles Charles
Rating54%
In Nazi occupied France, Jean Blomart sits by a bed in which his lover Hélène lies dying. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn about both characters and their relationship to each other. As a young man filled with guilt about his privileged middle-class life, Jean joins the Communist Party and breaks from his family, determined to make his own way in life. After the death of a friend in a political protest, for which he feels guilty, Jean quits the Party and concentrates on trade union activities. Hélène is a young designer who works in her family's confectionary shop and is dissatisfied with her conventional romance with her fiance Paul. She contrives to meet Jean, and although he initially rejects her, they form a relationship after she has an abortion following a reckless liaison with another man. Jean tells Hélène he loves her even though he believes he does not. He proposes to her and she accepts.
Jungle Warriors (1984)
, 1h33Genres Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Rape and revenge films, Women in prison films
Actors Sybil Danning, John Vernon, Paul L. Smith, Alex Cord, Woody Strode, Dana Elcar
Roles Vito Mastranga
Rating45%
A group of gorgeous American models take a long trip to South America, to participate in a photo session on a location deep in the jungle, apparently somewhere around Peruvian tropical forest. While flying over a cocaine plantation, their plane is shot down by Cesar, a dangerous drug lord, and the girls are taken prisoner by his army. Cesar suspects that an undercover police officer is among the models. In fact, one of the women actually is a special agent. Cesar orders his mercenaries to drag the girls into his dungeon for interrogation. After being tortured by Angel, Cesar’s sister, and cruelly gang-raped by all soldiers, the models are imprisoned in an underground cell to await Cesar's decision whether to execute them or keep them as slaves for his soldier’s “entertainment.” With the help of an old female servant, the models manage to escape from the basement jail and get some guns. As they make their way toward freedom, they run into a high-level Mafia meeting there in Cesar’s manor. A final gunfight breaks out as the women fight to take revenge and escape alive.
Savage Streets (1984)
, 1h33Directed by Danny Steinmann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Rape and revenge films
Actors Linda Blair, Linnea Quigley, John Vernon, Sal Landi, Lisa Freeman, Bob DeSimone
Roles Principal Underwood
Rating62%
After nearly being run down in the street by a gang known as the Scars, Brenda (Linda Blair) and her deaf-mute younger sister Heather (Linnea Quigley) and their friends trash the car of the gang leader, Jake. Jake exacts his revenge by getting his cohorts to gang-rape Heather. A fight between Brenda and her friends and the Scars at a local nightclub results in Brenda's pregnant, soon-to-be-married friend Francine being murdered by the Scars, who throw her off a viaduct. When Brenda learns who is responsible for Heather's rape, and that Francine is dead and the Scars are responsible, Brenda arms herself and sets out to avenge them. Finding them at a nearby warehouse, Brenda impales one of the gang members, Fargo, with an arrow; kills another, Red, by snapping a bear trap shut upon his neck; and then begins to torture Jake with arrows shot into his thighs and a hunting knife as he hangs by his feet from a gate. However, he then manages to free himself and attacks her. The showdown ends in a nearby paint store; as a burglar alarm blares, Brenda douses Jake in paint and then sets him on fire with a cigarette lighter that she has previously had difficulty getting to produce a flame, just before the police arrive.
Savage Streets (1984)
, 1h33Directed by Danny Steinmann
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Auto-justice
Actors Linda Blair, Linnea Quigley, John Vernon, Sal Landi, Lisa Freeman, Bob DeSimone
Roles Principal Underwood
Rating62%
Un gang ultra-violent sévit à Los Angeles. Menés par Jake (Robert Dwyer), ses membres torturent et violent Heather (Linnea Quigley), une jeune sourd-muette. La sœur de celle-ci, Brenda (Linda Blair) décide de faire justice.
Chained Heat (1983)
, 1h35Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning, Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens, Henry Silva
Roles Warden Bacman
Rating50%
Linda Blair of The Exorcist stars as Carol Henderson, an immature and naive teenager who is sentenced to 18 months in a women's prison after killing a man by accident after driving drunk. Once she arrives, she meets the vicious and perverted Warden Backman (John Vernon). She also encounters the two kingpin prisoners, Ericka (Sybil Danning) and Duchess (Tamara Dobson), who are the leaders of factions in the facility's seething racial tensions. There are also the drug-dealing lesbian rapists and the prostitutes, who answer to the warden's assistant, Captain Taylor (Stella Stevens). In the meantime, Taylor's lover is clandestinely having an affair with Ericka. It's a whirlwind of dread and fury, but when the facility's corrupt administration goes too far, racial considerations are put aside as convicts of all colors and nationalities band together to fight them.
Curtains (1983)
, 1h30Directed by Richard Ciupka
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime, Slasher
Themes Films about television
Actors John Vernon, Linda Thorson, Samantha Eggar, Lynne Griffin, Lesleh Donaldson, William Horace Marshall
Roles Jonathan Stryker
Rating55%
Samantha Sherwood, a beautiful actress and muse for director Jonathan Stryker, has herself committed to a mental institution as method preparation for the titular role of a mentally unstable woman in a film called Audra. Once finding out Stryker is letting a new group of girls audition for the role of Audra, she escapes the asylum for revenge.
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
, 1h25Directed by Ken Finkleman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Transport films, Sur la Lune, Aviation films, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Dans un avion, Space opera
Actors Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, Peter Graves, Rip Torn
Roles Dr. Stone
Rating61%
In the near future, the Moon has been colonized and supports a station on its surface. A lunar shuttle known as Mayflower One is being rushed to launch from Houston. The head of the ground crew, The Sarge (Chuck Connors), does not like what is occurring, but he defers to the airline's management.
Heavy Metal (1981)
, 1h30Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami, Gerald Potterton, John Bruno, Pino Van Lamsweerde
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Harvey Atkin, Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy
Roles Prosecutor (voice)
Rating65%
The movie's title sequence story (based on the original story by Dan O'Bannon and art by Thomas Warkentin) opens with a space shuttle flying in orbit over Earth. The bay doors (on the belly of the shuttle) open, releasing a 1960 Corvette. An astronaut seated in the Corvette then begins descending through Earth's atmosphere, landing in a desert canyon.
Fantastica (1980)
, 1h50Directed by Gilles Carle
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related film
Actors Carole Laure, Serge Reggiani, Claudine Auger, John Vernon, Denise Filiatrault, Luc Senay
Roles Jim McPherson
Rating52%
Une troupe de comédie musicale se déplace à travers la province de Québec. Lorca (Carole Laure) en est la vedette principale et son amant (Lewis Furey), le compositeur et directeur de la troupe. La rencontre d'un vieil ermite écologiste (Serge Reggiani) permet à Lorca de concilier ses aspirations d'artiste et de femme dans un monde où la nature a ses droits.