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John Vernon is a Actor Canadien born on 24 february 1932 at Zehner (Canada)

John Vernon

John Vernon
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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)

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.

Biography

Vernon was the father of actresses Kate and Nan Vernon, and son Chris Vernon.

Best films

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
(Actor)
Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)
(Actor)
A Special Day (1977)
(Actor)

Usually with

Don Siegel
Don Siegel
(3 films)
Stephen Furst
Stephen Furst
(3 films)
Paul Almond
Paul Almond
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of John Vernon (58 films)

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Actor

Charley Varrick, 1h51
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Walter Matthau, Andrew Robinson, Joe Don Baker, John Vernon, Felicia Farr, Jacqueline Scott
Roles Maynard Boyle
Rating74% 3.7474653.7474653.7474653.7474653.747465
Charley Varrick (Matthau) is a crop-duster and former stunt pilot. The aging trailer-park dweller has clearly not been too successful. Together with his wife Nadine and co-conspirators Al Dutcher and Harman Sullivan (Andrew Robinson), a heavily disguised Varrick robs a bank in the rural crossroads community of Tres Cruces, New Mexico. During the robbery, two policemen and Dutcher are killed. Nadine drives the get-away car and eludes the police, but she, too, has been mortally wounded. Varrick distracts the police by blowing up the getaway car with black powder and gasoline, with his wife's body inside. He and Sullivan escape.
Journey
Journey (1972)

Directed by Paul Almond
Genres Drama
Actors Geneviève Bujold, John Vernon, Gale Garnett
Roles Boulder Allin
Rating60% 3.0045453.0045453.0045453.0045453.004545
Journey is the allegorical story of a young woman's struggle - outside the normal framework of space and time - to find herself.
Fear Is the Key
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon, Dolph Sweet, Ben Kingsley, Ray McAnally
Roles Vyland
Rating62% 3.1457653.1457653.1457653.1457653.145765
John Talbot is talking on radio to a girl and another man who are flying a plane. He hears them being machine gunned to death by another plane.
One More Train to Rob, 1h48
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors George Peppard, Diana Muldaur, John Vernon, France Nuyen, Soon-Tek Oh, Richard Loo
Roles Timothy Xavier Nolan
Rating57% 2.852572.852572.852572.852572.85257
Set in the Old West, the story is about train-robber Harker Fleet (Peppard), who is sent to prison for assaulting a sheriff and his deputy while trying to escape a forced marriage, set up by his former partner, Timothy Xavier Nolan (John Vernon). Fleet serves his time, but gets out of prison early, for good behavior. Once he is released from prison, he travels to the town of Calador, intending to settle the score with Nolan for railroading him and stealing his woman, Katy (Diana Muldaur) .
Dirty Harry, 1h38
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Vernon, Mae Mercer
Roles The Mayor
Rating76% 3.848283.848283.848283.848283.84828
A psychotic serial killer calling himself "Scorpio" (Andy Robinson) murders a young woman in a San Francisco swimming pool, using a high-powered rifle from a nearby rooftop. SFPD Inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) finds a ransom message demanding the city pay him $100,000. Scorpio also promises that for each day that the city refuses his demand, he will commit a murder, and his next victim will be "a Catholic priest or a nigger." The chief of police and the mayor (John Vernon) assign the inspector to the case, though the mayor is reluctant because of an incident involving the shooting by Callahan of a naked man with a butcher knife chasing a woman the previous year in the city's Fillmore District.
Face-Off
Face-Off (1971)
, 1h45
Directed by George McCowan
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Sports films, Ice hockey films
Actors Art Hindle, Trudy Young, John Vernon, Sean Sullivan, Susan Douglas Rubes
Roles Fred Wares
Rating54% 2.715772.715772.715772.715772.71577
Hockey player Billy Duke (Art Hindle) joins the Toronto Maple Leafs, and must adapt to the major league with assistance from his room-mate (George Armstrong, a Leafs player portraying himself). Meanwhile, Duke is involved in a relationship with rock singer Sherri Lee Nelson (Trudy Young) who objects to Duke's often rough hockey playing.
Topaz
Topaz (1969)
, 2h7
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Political films
Actors Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, John Forsythe, Karin Dor
Roles Rico Parra
Rating61% 3.0981453.0981453.0981453.0981453.098145
In Copenhagen in 1962, a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer, Boris Kusenov (Per-Axel Arosenius), defects to the West with his wife and daughter after a chase through the streets to the US embassy. In Washington DC, CIA agent Mike Nordstrom (John Forsythe) debriefs him and learns that Russian ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads are to be placed in Cuba. Needing physical evidence of the missiles, he contacts an old friend, French agent André Devereaux (Frederick Stafford), at his house in Georgetown. Nordstrom discloses Kusenov's name to Devereaux, asking him to bribe Luis Uribe, a member of Cuba's U.N. delegation, to provide photographs of documents confirming the missile bases in Cuba (knowing that Uribe hates the United States and would never cooperate with an American agent). Devereaux decides to accompany his daughter Michèle (Claude Jade) on her honeymoon with journalist François Picard (Michel Subor) as a reason to go to New York City. His wife Nicole (Dany Robin) is worried and tries to dissuade him.
Justine
Justine (1969)
, 1h56
Directed by George Cukor, Joseph Strick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Anouk Aimée, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Forster, Michael York, Anna Karina, John Vernon
Roles Nessim
Rating54% 2.7023952.7023952.7023952.7023952.702395
Set in Alexandria in 1938, a young British schoolmaster named Darley meets Pursewarden, a British consular officer. Pursewarden introduces him to Justine, the wife of an Egyptian banker. Darley befriends her, and discovers she is involved in a plot against the British, the goal of which is to arm the Jewish underground movement in Palestine.
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, 1h38
Directed by Abraham Polonsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark, Barry Sullivan, John Vernon
Roles Hacker
Rating62% 3.1448653.1448653.1448653.1448653.144865
The film's story revolves around the Paiute Indian outlaw Willie Boy (Robert Blake), who escapes with his lover, Lola (Katharine Ross), after killing her father in self defense. According to tribal custom Willie can then claim Lola as his wife. According to the law, Deputy Sheriff Cooper (Robert Redford) is required to charge him with murder.
Point Blank, 1h32
Directed by John Boorman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Prison films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, Se déroulant à Alcatraz
Actors Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Vernon, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, Michael Strong
Roles Mal Reese
Rating72% 3.6474953.6474953.6474953.6474953.647495
Walker (Lee Marvin) works together with his friend Mal Reese (John Vernon in his first major role) to steal a large amount of cash from a courier transporting funds for a major gambling operation, with the deserted Alcatraz island as a drop point. Reese then double-crosses Walker by shooting him, leaving him for dead. Reese also makes off with Walker's wife Lynne (Sharon Acker).
1984
1984 (1956)
, 1h30
Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Politique, Films about the labor movement, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Edmond O'Brien, Michael Redgrave, Jan Sterling, Donald Pleasence, John Vernon, David Kossoff
Roles Big Brother (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.4447753.4447753.4447753.4447753.444775
Dans le monde futur de 1984, (le film sort en 1956), le monde est sous la coupe d'un dictateur omniprésent, représentée par la figure de Big Brother. Winston Smith, un simple fonctionnaire du Ministère de la Vérité, se rebelle, entraîné par Julia. Il sera finalement arrêté et sous la torture, livrera son amante.