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He also appeared in several cult exploitation and action films in the 1980s, most notably Chained Heat and Savage Streets, both starring Linda Blair, and Jungle Warriors, opposite Sybil Danning. In 1979, Vernon played villainous American bigot Jonathon Pritts in New Mexico who was trying to steal the land from Mexican landowners in the Louis L'Amour story of The Sacketts. Stone in 1982's Airplane II: The Sequel, and Sherman Krader in 1987's Ernest Goes to Camp. Prindle in 1980's Herbie Goes Bananas, Ted Striker's psychiatrist Dr. Vernon played Dean Vernon Wormer of fictional Faber College in 1978's Animal House (a role that he would reprise in the short-lived television sequel Delta House).

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In 1975, Vernon portrayed Chicago gangster Ben Larkin in the John Wayne movie Brannigan, which was set in London, England, starring alongside Wayne and Richard Attenborough. In 1972, he appeared as a villain in the Fear Is the Key and in 1973, he appeared in Charley Varrick as mob boss Maynard Boyle. In 1976, he played Fletcher in Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales. Also in 1974, he appeared in The Questor Tapes. In 1974 he co starred in the film The Black Windmill with Michael Caine and Donald Pleasence. He later parodied this role in the film One More Train to Rob and the premiere episode of Sledge Hammer!. In 1971, he played the by-the-book mayor of San Francisco, perpetually frustrated by Clint Eastwood, in the first Dirty Harry movie. In 1974, Vernon turned in a supporting performance in Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night.

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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he made four appearances over five years on the TV series Mission: Impossible as four different lead villains. In 1970, he guest-starred in the Hawaii Five-O episode 'Force Of Waves' as Cal Anderson, and he appeared in the two-part episode 'The Banker' of The Silent Force in 1971. He appeared on The High Chaparral as the leader of a group of striking Irish Miners (1969) in 'No Irish Need Apply'. In 1969, he played Cuban revolutionary Rico Parra in Alfred Hitchcock's Cold War-era spy movie Topaz. In 1967, he appeared opposite Lee Marvin in Point Blank. However, he decided to go to the United States to further his acting career. He appeared in the CBC series Wojeck in the late 1960s, playing a crime-fighting medical examiner. During the Golden Age of CBC Drama in the 1960s, he co-starred in Edna O'Brien's A Cheap Bunch of Nice Flowers, opposite Colleen Dewhurst, and in Uncle Vanya, opposite William Hutt and Rita Gam. He debuted on Broadway in 1964 as DeSoto opposite Christopher Plummer and David Carradine in The Royal Hunt of the Sun. He returned to Canada afterwards and gained film experience appearing on the TV series The Adventures of Tugboat Annie and The Last of the Mohicans. Vernon made his screen debut in 1956 as the voice of Big Brother in Michael Anderson's film version of George Orwell's 1984 starring Edmond O'Brien. Vernon was the father of actress Kate Vernon, musician Nan Vernon, and actor Chris Vernon. In 1974, he completed a season at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, playing Malvolio. Vernon was educated at the Banff School of Fine Arts and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London before becoming a live stage actor for CBC Television's dramatic programs. and Mary Ellen Burgess at the Regina Little Theatre. Joseph's School and Campion College in Regina, Saskatchewan, where his acting career began under the direction of Rev.

Vernon was of Armenian, German, and Polish descent. The Agopsowicz family were part of the community of Armenians in Poland. Both his parents' families immigrated to the Edenwold district in the late 19th century from the Austrian crownland and duchy of Bukovina. Born as Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz in Zehner, Saskatchewan, Vernon was one of two sons of Adolf Agopsowicz, a grocer, and his wife Eleonore Krückel (also spelled as Kriekle or Kriekel).