So Long Dean Wormer

Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz left us this week. He had come far from Zehner, Saskatchewan, Canada where he was born on February 24th, 1932. Coming to Hollywood as John Vernon, he made a career out of playing bad guys. From his debut in John Boorman's gangster pic Point Blank in 1967, Vernon worked for many of the best, Alfred Hitchcock, George Cukor, Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood among them. Our three favorite John Vernon characters: The ineffectual mayor of San Francisco in Dirty Harry, the heartless bounty hunter in Outlaw Josey Wales and the immortal Dean Vernon Wormer in Animal House. Now that he's gone, we're all on "double secret probation."