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John Keith Vernon (born Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz; February 24, 1932 [1] – February 1, 2005) was a Canadian actor. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada. He was best known for playing Dean Wormer in Animal House, the Mayor in Dirty Harry and Fletcher in The Outlaw Josey Wales.
The Delta house is on probation due to numerous conduct violations and overall poor academic standing; wishing to remove the troublemaking fraternity from Faber's campus, Dean Vernon Wormer elevates the Deltas to "double secret probation" and directs Greg Marmalard, the Omega's president, to get fellow Omega and ROTC Cadet Commander Douglas C ...
John Vernon as Dean Vernon Wormer, the corrupt dean of Faber College and the main nemesis of the Delta Fraternity. Stephen Furst as Kent "Flounder" Dorfman, an overweight and dim-witted freshman member of the Delta House. Bruce McGill as Daniel Simpson Day a.k.a. "D-Day," a motorcycle-riding member of the Delta House.
"Life's a climb. But the view is great." There are times when things seemingly go to plan, and there are other moments when nothing works out. During those instances, you might feel lost.
Much of the plot references scenes from Animal House – Robot House takes the place of Delta House, and the school is headed by "Dean Vernon" instead of "Dean Vernon Wormer"; Delta House's "double secret probation" becomes Robot House's "dodecatuple secret probation", and so on.
Dean "Vernon Wormer", a P.E. and civics teacher as well as an athletic coach in the yearbook, is played by John Vernon in Animal House. Five years after the Yearbook parody, in 1978, the National Lampoon published the National Lampoon Sunday Newspaper Parody , a fake Sunday newspaper which also claimed to originate in "Dacron, Ohio" but was ...
Wellington Vernon Dean (born May 5, 1959) is an American football coach and former player who is the defensive backs coach for the DC Defenders of the United Football League (UFL). He played professionally as a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL), primarily for the Washington Redskins , with whom he won two Super Bowls .
Both actors played paraplegics undergoing rehabilitation at a veterans' hospital. In a subplot, Webb's character, a cynical intellectual, is fleeced of his life savings by a woman who feigns romantic interest. In 1951, Webb introduced a short-lived radio series, Pete Kelly's Blues, in an attempt to bring the music he loved to a broader audience.