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John Vernon

1932 - 2005

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John Keith Vernon (born Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz; February 24, 1932 – 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Vernon is the 3,791st most popular actor (up from 4,127th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from Canada (down from 317th in 2019) and the 86th most popular Canadian Actor.

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Among actors, John Vernon ranks 3,791 out of 13,578. Before him are L. Scott Caldwell, Meena Kumari, Silvio Orlando, Shiva Rajkumar, Kim Bodnia, and Robert Urich. After him are Diana Bracho, Shammi Kapoor, Felicia Farr, Brian Blessed, Lauren Cohan, and Mischa Auer.

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Among people born in 1932, John Vernon ranks 295. Before him are Sven Lindqvist, Josef Musil, Edmund Wickham Lawrence, Lajos Csordás, Sígfrid Gràcia, and John Drew Barrymore. After him are Felicia Farr, Miroslav Hroch, Turgay Şeren, Margit Korondi, Robert Rozhdestvensky, and Paul Bley. Among people deceased in 2005, John Vernon ranks 192. Before him are Marc Lawrence, Ralph Erskine, John Spencer, Attilio Giovannini, Sígfrid Gràcia, and Tetyana Yablonska. After him are Robin Cook, Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, Dorothy Stang, John Ostrom, Mustai Karim, and Sunil Dutt.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, John Vernon ranks 325 out of 1,622. Before him are Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661), George Hodgson (1893), John Draper (1943), Marc Garneau (1949), Cobie Smulders (1982), and David Shore (1959). After him are Carlyle S. Beals (1899), Robert Joy (1951), Kate Nelligan (1950), Robert Borden (1854), William Kahan (1933), and Paul Bley (1932).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, John Vernon ranks 86. Before him are Tommy Chong (1938), Marc Singer (1948), Alexandra Stewart (1939), Ann Rutherford (1917), Jason Priestley (1969), and Cobie Smulders (1982). After him are Robert Joy (1951), Kate Nelligan (1950), Alexander Knox (1907), Natasha Henstridge (1974), Susan Clark (1943), and Pom Klementieff (1986).

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