Remembering John Vernon on his birthday 🎂
📷 Reg Innell for the Toronto Star, 1971
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"I can't tell you how many times I've been asked to record people's answering-machine messages saying, 'Fat, drunk & stupid is no way to go through life, son'."
John Vernon & Cesare Danova in National Lampoon's Animal House, 1978.
Dean Vernon Wormer showed up early on in every one of Vernon's obituaries. An iconic role!
There were two on set still photographers: Christine Loss & John Shannon
#stillonset
Alfred Hitchcock directs John Vernon & Karin Dor in Topaz. Hitch doesn't seem to be working too hard in this shot. He may have nodded off.
📷 Pierre Zucca, 1969
John Vernon as Captain Fletcher in Clint Eastwood's The Outlaw Josey Wales
Perhaps Vernon's best large-screen role.
📷 Don Christie, 1976
You have to be a Canadian of a certain age to remember this, but Wojeck is one of the few great Canadian TV dramas. John Vernon plays a crusading coroner - this was on CBC from 1966-68.
Man, I loved this show!
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