And so the meaning of “Double Secret Probation” is lost forever. RIP cool dude -
http://www.canada.com/entertainment/story.html?id=acf88ae1-b307-408e-b6ee-8bcbfcfedc3e
Pity. I remember him as the Mayor on Sledge Hammer. Something I hadn’t known before checking his imdb page was he’d done a lot of cartoon voice work, including numerous Marvel characters.
“Fat, Dumb, and Stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
We had a sort of honorary Animal House viewing in the dorm lounge tonight.
“The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.”
Well how about posting his real name?
John Vernon
He was a great character actor. (I saw him in “Charlie Varrick” just a few nights ago.) Here’s his IMDB listing:
Yeah on the '60s Marvel show: Iron Man, Sub Mariner and Glen Talbot. Later, Doctor Doom, Doctor Strange and Thunderbolt Ross.
It claims his first role was the voice of Big Brother in the 1956 version of “1984”. Anybody here ever seen it?
Drunk, not dumb.
Reunited with Senator Blutarsky at long last… R.I.P., John Vernon.
Ok, help me out. I’ve not seen a lot of these shows or movies that he played in. I heard on the radio this morning that he was on the Munsters, which I have seen. 
Who was he?
Side note: He was in “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka” as Mr. Big. I’ve seen that movie, but it has been a long time!
“Charley Varrick” is one of my favorite films! Apparently, Tarantino liked it, too, because he incorporated one of Vernon’s lines into “Pulp Fiction:” “They’re going to send a couple guys down here who will go to work on you with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch until they get what they want.”
“Mr. Blu… Mr. Blutarsky. Zero. Point Zero.”
“Put a sock on it, son, or you’ll be out of here like shit through a goose.”
Actually, I remember John Vernon most from the Clint Eastwood pictures he popped up in (or, perhaps I should say Don Siegel pictures). Remember him as the wishy washy liberal mayor in “Dirty Harry”? Or as Clint’s old Civil War commander in “The Outlaw Josey Wales”?
[tinfoil hat on/]
Are we sure he isn’t on double secret resuscitation?
[ infoil hat off]
Double Secret Probation just meant that the Deltas were excluded from their final expulsion hearing without notification.
“Mr. Daniel Simpson Day has no grade point average…all courses incomplete!”
(I love that line for some reason)
Why not, indeed?
Adolphus Raymondus Vernon Agopsowicz. (From the cite in the OP.)
I wonder why he changed it?
And so yet another of my childhood (well, college, in this case) dreams is tragically crushed.
A firend of mine and I would spend time in college thinking up TV shows that we wanted to create, and our magnum opus was going to be The John Vernon Show. John would play the gruff – but lovable – dean of a small, liberal-arts college, with the requisite long-suffering wife, teenage daughter, and rapscallion son. (There would also be his neighbors, a “wacky” British couple who were both professors of some sort.)
Oh, sure, you might say that I have no connection with the TV industry, and that such a show would never have existed. But wouldn’t it have been a better world if that show had been? Say, Wednesday nights at 9:00 on ABC, 1993-1999?
Farewell, John. Somewhere there’s a Character Actor’s Heaven, and they’ve saved you an office with a big wood desk to scowl over.
Ditto, but the movie I watched was John Boorman’s Point Blank. Vernon played the guy who double-crossed Lee Marvin and left him for dead, and who later gets his comeuppance in remarkably ignominious fashion. I won’t spoil it, because it’s a great movie, but it’s one of the most hard-boiled and unsentimental character exits I’ve ever seen.
RIP, Mr. V.
A special place in heaven is reserved for those working class actors that entertained us so.
For Airplane II: " I don’t impressions, I’m a psychiatrist."