Agopsowicz, Adolphus Raymondus Vernon John Vernon was a prolific stage-trained Canadian character player who made a career out of convincingly playing crafty villains, morally bankrupt officials and heartless authority figures in American films and TV since the 1960s. Vernon has been directed by some stellar filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock ("The Topaz (1969)"), George Cukor ("Justine (1 ... show all
Agopsowicz, Adolphus Raymondus Vernon John Vernon was a prolific stage-trained Canadian character player who made a career out of convincingly playing crafty villains, morally bankrupt officials and heartless authority figures in American films and TV since the 1960s. Vernon has been directed by some stellar filmmakers, including Alfred Hitchcock ("The Topaz (1969)"), George Cukor ("Justine (1969/I)"), Don Siegel ("Dirty Harry (1971)") and Clint Eastwood ("Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)"). After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and honing his skills in Canadian theater and TV, Vernon made his US film debut in John Boorman's noir/gangster classic "Point Blank (1967)" as a trusted friend who betrays Lee Marvin. He again failed to inspire confidence as the ineffectual mayor of San Francisco in "Dirty Harry (1971)". Vernon may be best remembered as the sinister Dean Wormer in John Landis ' "Animal House (1978)", a role he reprised for the TV spin-off "Delta House" (1979/I)". This led to more film comedy roles, a highlight being Mr. Big in the blaxploitation spoof "I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka (1988)". Father of Kate Vernon and Nan Vernon. hide
Genres:Crime | Horror | Thriller Countries:Canada Directors:Richard Ciupka Actors:John Vernon | Samantha Eggar | Linda Thorson | Anne Ditchburn | Lynne Griffin | Sandee Currie | Lesleh Donaldson | Deborah Burgess | Michael Wincott | Maury Chaykin | Joann McIntyre | Calvin Butler | Kate Lynch | Booth Savage | William Marshall
Samantha Sherwood has worked with the well-known director Jonathan Stryker on all his major films. She naturally assumes she has been given the title role in his latest venture, "Audra". He tells her that she nn needs to do some background research on the part, so arranges to have her committed to an asylum (as Audra is a former psychiatric patient). She goes along with this, not realising that he intends to leave her there indefinitely and audition six young women of various professions for the part instead. She finally manages to escape, and returns to the spooky old mansion where the auditions are taking place. But who is causing the disappearances of the young hopefuls?? Is it Samantha? Stryker? Or is one of the actresses willing to kill for the coveted part?? Just who is the killer behind the old-hag mask??? Download:DivXiPod
Genres:Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Crime | Fantasy | Horror | Music | Sci-Fi | Thriller Countries:Canada Directors:Gerald Potterton Actors:Rodger Bumpass | John Candy | Jackie Burroughs | Joe Flaherty | Don Francks | Martin Lavut | Marilyn Lightstone | Eugene Levy | Alice Playten | Harold Ramis | Susan Roman | August Schellenberg | Richard Romanus | John Vernon | Zal Yanovsky
An astronaut brings home a glowing green orb for his daughter. However, the orb kills him and corners the girl for its purposes. Claiming to the embodiment of all evil, the malevolent sphere, known as the Loc-Nar, terrorizes the little girl by showing a series of bizarre and fantastic tales it has influenced. The first is "Harry Canyon," a cynical taxi driver in a squalid futuristic New York who finds himself involved with a damsel in distress who is relentlessly pursued by murderous thugs who desire the Loc-Nar her archaeologist father found. The second is "Den" which chronicles the adventures of a nerdish boy who is thrown into the fantasy world of Neverwhere, where he is transformed into a studly naked muscle-man, desired by beautiful women, who must get involved in a conflict revolving around possession of the Loc-Nar. The third is "Captain Sternn" where the title character is a handsome but irredeemable scoundrel who stands accused in a trial that Loc-Nar throws into chaos. The fourth is "B-17", where a World War II bomber plane limps home after a bombing run, only to have the Loc-Nar ram into it and revive the dead crew members as murderous zombies. The next is "So Beautiful, So Dangerous" where a buxom secretary at the Pentagon is abducted by stoned alien wastrels and a oversexed robot. The final story is "Taarna", where the Loc-Nar has to come to a future Earth and changes a peaceful people into a horde of murderous barbarians who rampage with genocidal zeal. Only the last Tarackian, a silent swords-woman known as Taarna, can avenge the victims and stop the Loc-Nar. Download:720pDivXiPod
Genres:Action | Drama | Western Countries:USA Directors:Clint Eastwood Actors:Chief Dan George | Sondra Locke | Bill McKinney | John Vernon | Paula Trueman | Sam Bottoms | Geraldine Keams | Woodrow Parfrey | Joyce Jameson | Sheb Wooley | Royal Dano | Matt Clark | John Verros | Will Sampson
Josey Wales is a peaceful farmer in the days near the end of the Civil War. After his home is burned and his family murdered, he hardens into a human bullet - dedicated to destroying the renegades who took his "life." He joins a band of unreconstructed rebel guerilla fighters who continue to fight the Union - even after the official surrender of the Confederacy - an action which makes them, legally, outlaws. Josey is driven by vengeance, but after a while, that's not enough. Back before his own personal Holocaust, he had been a builder - of home, family, farm, and life. And no matter how much ice he's wrapped himself in, down inside there's still the soul of a living man. While Wales exists, he's pulled by this hidden yearning to Live. Each day offers him chances to remember, to assuage his yearning, to begin again. And the movie shows us how Josey Wales - a mere seeker of vengeance - learns to live again, rededicated to the values he chose so long ago. Download:DivXiPod
Genres:Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller Countries:USA Directors: Actors:Clint Eastwood | Harry Guardino | Reni Santoni | John Vernon | Andrew Robinson | John Larch | John Mitchum | Mae Mercer | Lyn Edgington
In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Harry Callahan (known as Dirty Harry by his peers through his reputation handling of homicidal cases) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez to track down Scorpio and stop him. Using humiliation and cat and mouse type of games against Callahan, Scorpio is put to the test with the cop with a dirty attitude. Download:1080p720pDVDDivXPDA
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