Credits include: Duel, Silver Streak, Private Parts, Tom Sawyer and Little Fauss and Big Halsy

Credits include: It's a Wonderful Life, In a Lonely Place, The Big Heat, The Bad and the Beautiful and Oklahoma!

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)

Credits include: Escape from the Planet of the Apes, True Crime, Sommersby, Brewster McCloud and She's Having a Baby

Credits include: In the Heat of the Night, Innerspace, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Written on the Wind and Pillow Talk

Credits include: El Dorado, City of the Living Dead, Pieces, Chisum and The Exterminator

Credits include: Angels with Dirty Faces, Dead End, Herbie Rides Again, A Walk in the Sun and Cyclone

Credits include: The Silent Scream, Swashbuckler, Don't Drink the Water, Saturday the 14th Strikes Back and Escape

Credits include: Fifteen and Pregnant, The Trouble with Girls, Escape, That Certain Summer and The New Adventures of Heidi

Credits include: Merrill's Marauders, Escape, The Double 0 Kid, Jack Reed: Badge of Honor and Cheyenne

Credits include: Hit Man, Act of Vengeance and Escape

Credits include: Escape, Korea, Still Valley, The Glory Wagon and The Tall Man