John Vernon, 72, a stage-trained actor who played a series of slimy villains and authority figures, never so well as in "National Lampoon's Animal House," in which he was the evil college dean, died ...

LOS ANGELES – John Vernon (search), a stage-trained character actor who played cunning villains in film and TV and made his comedy mark as Dean Wormer in "National Lampoon's Animal House," (search) ...

Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz (John Vernon), actor: born Zehner, Saskatchewan, 24 February 1932; married Nancy West (one son, two daughters; marriage dissolved); died Van Nuys, California 1 ...

Dirty Harry wannabe Brannigan cast John Vernon as a very different kind of character from the one he played in the Clint Eastwood thriller. John Wayne famously passed on the original Dirty Harry, as ...

John Vernon, a Canadian-born character actor who frequently played villains in films and on television and may be best known as the sinister Dean Wormer in the comedy classic Animal House, has died.

John Vernon, a Canadian-born character actor who frequently played villains in films and on television and may be best known as the sinister Dean Wormer in the comedy classic “Animal House,” has died.

JOHN Vernon, the character actor who has died aged 72, was regularly cast as duplicitous villains; he appeared in more than 100 films, ranging from Hitchcock's Topaz (1969) to Eastwood's The Outlaw ...

How many Broadway shows has John Vernon been in? John Vernon has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows. How many West End shows has John Vernon been in? John Vernon has appeared on London's West End in 5 ...