John Vernon

John Vernon
Date of Birth: 24 Feb 1932
Country: Canada
Biography: John Vernon was a prolific stage-trained Canadian character player who made a career out of convincingly playing crafty villains, morally-bankrupt officials and heartless authority figures in American films and television since the 1960s. Vernon has been directed by some stellar filmmakers including Alfred Hitchcock (Topaz (1969)); George Cukor (Justine (1969)); Don Siegel (Dirty Harry (1971)) and Clint Eastwood (The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976))...(imdb)
Total Credits at Criticker: 66 (Actor), 3 (Director)
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Heavy Metal
A glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with a collection of stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror (imdb)
Point Blank
Trying to help his gangster friend Reese, Walker is shot and left for dead by him and his own wife turning out to be Reese's lover (imdb)
Animal House
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the Delta House Fraternity, but those roughhousers have other plans for him. (imdb)
Dirty Harry
A San Francisco cop with little regard for rules (but who always gets results) tries to track down a serial killer who snipes at random victims. (imdb)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town. (imdb)
Airplane II: The Sequel
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track--again??? (imdb)
Topaz
A French Man and his family involved in the cold war between Russians and Americans. (imdb)
Sweet Movie
The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness... (imdb)
The Outlaw Josey Wales
A Missouri farmer joins a Confederate guerilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family. (imdb)
Charley Varrick
Charley Varrick and his friends rob a small town bank. Expecting a small sum to divide amongst themselves, they are surprised to discover a very LARGE amount of money (imdb)
Ernest Goes to Camp
A group of juvenile criminals is sent for vacation to Kamp Kikakee. The clumsy Ernest has to care for them... (imdb)
Fuzz Bucket
Fuzz Bucket (1986) - TV Movie
In the vein of "Harvey", an invisble creature befriends a 12 year old boy. Of course, no one else can see him nor believes in him. (imdb)
Herbie Goes Bananas
The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico. (imdb)
Brannigan
Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up by his lawyer. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard in order to recapture this mobster with both A price tag on his head and a stuffy old London cop to contend with. (imdb)
The Black Windmill
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 his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself. (imdb)
A Special Day
The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues into night, Loreon and Mastroianni develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life. (imdb)
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
A ruthless destructive vigilante posing as Batwoman is wreaking havoc in Gotham City. While she sets her sights on thwarting Penguin's evil plans, Batman concentrates on discovering this mysterious imposter's true identity. But when she's captured by the vicious Bane, it falls upon the caped crusader to rescue her, defeat Bane and foil the Penguin's devious plot himself. (imdb)
1984
In a futuristic, state-run society controlled by "Big Brother" in which love is outlawed, employee of the state Winston Smith falls for Julia, and is tortured and brainwashed for his crime. (IMDb)
The Blood of Others
WWII. In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection. (imdb)
One More Train to Rob
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 gold-mining country of the 1880's. The six split up and while they are hiding out awaiting the rendezvous to divide the loot, Hark is cornered, framed and sent to prison. He is released after two-and-a-half years and sets out to find Katy and Nolan and get his share of the loot. (imdb)
Savage Streets
A teenage vigilante (Blair) seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and killed her best friend. (imdb)
Curtains
Actresses meet at a secluded manor house to audition for the lead in an important new play and are murdered one by one by a clever masked killer. (Chas. Balun)
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Based on true events, tells the story of one of the last Western manhunts, in 1909. Willie Boy (Robert Blake), a Native American, kills his girlfriend's (Katharine Ross) father in self defense, and the two go on the run, pursued by a search posse led by Sheriff Christopher Cooper (Robert Redford). (imdb)
Chained Heat
An innocent finds herself in a prison where the warden has a hot tub in his office. (Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide)
Malicious
A medical student, obsessed with her school's star baseball player, pursues him and finally manages to get him to spend the weekend with her... (imdb)
Family of Cops
The entire family of a Milwaukee police chief becomes entangled in a web of murder and deception when the youngest daughter is accused of killing a multimillionaire businessman. (TCM.com)
Bail Out
Bail Out (1989) - Direct-to-Video
A trio of hapless bounty hunters are recruited by a shady bail bondsman to try to keep a witness in drug trial alive to testify. (imdb)
The Uncanny
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror. (TCM.com)
Fear Is the Key
Following the death of his family in an aeroplane crash, a man plots an elaborate revenge scheme on those responsible. By setting himself up as a criminal, he plans to get close to a certain tycoon who has been approached by the culprits to help them retrieve the cargo of the lost plane. (imdb)
John Cabot: A Man of the Renaissance
This short film documents John Cabot's quest to discover a westward route across the sea to the Orient in 15th-century Europe. The resulting story is one that explores the geography of the Renaissance world as well as its social and intellectual character. (nfb.ca)
The Questor Tapes
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 his programming tape was erased in the attempt to decode it, his former colleagues continue the project and finally succeed. But Vaslovik seems to have installed a secret program in Questor's brain: He flees and starts to search for Vaslovik... (imdb)
The Six Million Dollar Man: Solid Gold Kidnapping
A criminal organization known as OSO specializes in kidnapping high ranking U.S. representatives. Although Steve Austin has already thwarted one of their kidnappings, he is unable to stop them from grabbing William Henry Cameron right from under OSI's nose. OSO demands one million dollars in gold and Oscar Goldman takes the opportunity to try and lure them out into the open. (imdb)
Golden Rendezvous
The plot concerns high-sea hijinks aboard the Caribbean Star, a combination cargo ship and floating casino. In the midst of the high rollers and spinning roulette wheels appears Luis Carreras, an amoral mercenary who hijacks the ship. Taking his marching orders from a mysterious mastermind, he installs an atomic device mid-ship, holding both the passengers and the bomb hostage, hoping to exchange them for the gold bullion of an U.S. Treasury ship... (allmovie.com)
Fraternity Vacation
When a group of frat boys trades the hallowed halls of their snowy Iowa university for some fun in the sun on spring break in Palm Springs, the race is on to bed the first curvaceous blonde who crosses their path, the lovely Ashley Taylor (Sheree J. Wilson). But the joke may be on the boys when their nerdy frat brother (whose house they're enjoying) reveals a surprise for everyone in this film co-starring Tim Robbins and Stephen Geoffreys.
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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.
Escape
Escape (1971) - TV Movie
A mad scientist creates a virus that can transform people into murderous zombies. A private eye sets out to stop him. (imdb)
Hostile Takeover
An office employee takes three of his coworkers hostage during an overtime weekend shift but doesn't demand anything.
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Comparisons between the films of Quentin Tarantino and older works, claiming that he borrow things from them without proper recognition.
Virginia Hill
Virginia Hill lived the high life in Hollywood in the 1950's. She and her home played host to endless nights of elegant parties where movie stars, businessmen and politicians came to call. Little did they know that nothing in the house belonged to Virginia - it belonged to the mob. As their party host and good-time girl, Virginia Hill had been sent to California to look after the mob's business interests. (Amazon.com)
Crusade of Vengeance
A warrior sets out to save her kidnapped son. (imdb)
Jungle Warriors
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 drug baron's private army. At the same time, the Mafia's representative arrive to negotiate future collaboration. (imdb)
Warbus II
Warbus II was made in 1989 (four years after the previous film) and was one of the last Macaroni Combat films ever made. The year before we saw John Rambo battle Russians in Afghanistan . The Italians no doubt thought if Rambo fights a war in Afghanistan then they better make a rip-off with a similar premises. So we get Rambo-knock off character Johnny Hondo (Mark Gregory) going on a mission deep inside Afghanistan. (bloodbrothersfilmreviews.blogspot.com)
Cat and Mouse
A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife. (imdb)
Dixie Lanes
A small-town Southern family may have survived World War II, but will they survive a family reunion? (imdb)
It Rained All Night the Day I Left
Two weapons dealers are ambushed in Africa, but their luck changes when a wealthy widow hires them. She blames the natives for her husband's death, so she uses her power to control the water in the arid region to ration the natives' water. (allmovie.com)
Hostage for a Day
Warren Kooey is a man who's tired of his current life; a witch of a wife, a boss who complains about everything he does and looses his lifesavings (stolen by the wife). He has only one thing on his mind: Alaska... (imdb)
The Woman Who Sinned
A bored woman enviously watches her neighbour carry on a series of affairs, and finally embarks on a clandestine relationship herself, but unfortunately it leads to murder.
Winter Comes Early
Love story involving a Canadian professional hockey player (Billy Duke) and a hippie folk singer (Sherry Nelson). Their union is tumultuous, as both try to come to terms with their differences in careers and lifestyles. They realize too late that they both love each other. (imdb)
Mob Story
A New York gangster is forced to go on the run, and hides out in the small town where he grew up. (imdb)
Hell Hath No Fury
The making of the film "The Outlaw Josey Wales" featuring film footage, behind the scenes footage, and current interviews with the cast. (imdb)
The Incredible Hulk
A nuclear scientist is afflicted with the tendency to change into a powerful green monster under stress. (imdb)
The Marvel Super Heroes
An anthology series featuring superheroes published by Marvel Comics. (imdb)
Cannon
Cannon (1971) - TV Series
Frank Cannon is an overweight, balding ex-cop with a deep voice and expensive tastes in culinary pleasures; he becomes a high-priced private investigator. (imdb)
Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night
A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her infant daughter.
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
Nat Cutler, known as Hawkeye, is a fur trader. With his faithful Indian companion Chingachgook, the last of the Mohican tribe, he fights to protect settlers against the raiding Huron Indians.
W
Katie Lewis and her husband Ben discover that they are the targets of a mysterious killer who leaves the letter W at the scene of their near-fatal "accidents." While trying to avoid death, the couple must struggle to discover the source of these attacks.
Trial Run
Trial Run (1969) - TV Movie
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 burdened with an unfaithful wife.
The Incredible Hulk
The adventures of a nuclear scientist cursed with the tendency to turning into a huge green brute under stress. (imdb)
MacGyver
MacGyver (1985) - TV Series
Nightstick
Nightstick (1987) - TV Movie
A cop tries to prevent a gang of extortionists from blowing up New York City with nitroglycerin. (imdb)
Kung Fu
Acapulco H.E.A.T.
It is about 6 former secret agents who act as a covert agency based out of Mexico. They are undercover as bathing suit designers and models and thwart attempts to kidnap, murder and bomb all over Mexico. (imdb)
Heartbreak High
Two rival high school football coaches play fast and loose, backed by sexy cheerleaders, when their teams face of for the city championship title. (imdb)