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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.
In the film, Dean Vernon Wormer tells Inter-Fraternity Council President Greg Marmalard that, since Delta is already on probation, "as of this moment they are on 'double secret probation.'" The expanded release of the original movie on DVD in 2003, was titled the Double Secret Probation Edition.
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.
Tori Spelling is (re)opening up about the first time she met her now ex-husband Dean McDermott while filming Mind Over Murder in 2005. “I was sitting in the director's office and I remember I ...
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 ...
Webb was approached to play the role of Vernon Wormer, dean of Faber College, in National Lampoon's Animal House, but he refused, saying "the movie didn't make any damn sense"; John Vernon ultimately played the role. [10]