Vernon is one of the most versatile and and frequently employed actors since the early 1960’s. Equally at home on film, television, stage, radio and audio dramas. His Anglo – French background has enabled Vernon to work as much in France as in the UK. Speaks French , Italian and German fluently and has acted in films and television in all of the above languages.
Vernon’s most recent credits film credits include:
- The 15:17 to Paris (directed by Clint Eastwood).
- The Man With The Iron Heart/HHhH (directed by Cedric Jimenez ).
- Killing Jesus (directed by Christopher Menaul).
- The Invisible Boy (directed by Gabriel Salvatores).
- Horsehead (directed by Romain Basset) and,
- Deception/The Best Offer (directed by Giuseppe Tornatore).
His most recent television work includes:
- The Romanoffs (Amazon Studios).
- The Durrells (ITV)
- Emerald City
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (BBC)
- Neil Jordan’s The Borgia’s as Cardinal Versucci (Showtime).
Played Sherlock Holmes in the French short film L’Hypothese de la Reine Rouge directed by Florian Thomas. Nostradamus in The Prophecies of Nostradamus directed by Das Abra – now available in full on
YouTube
He has worked with many of the great film directors in his long career, including Steven Spielberg, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franklin J. Schaffner, Henry Jaglom, Fred Zinnemann , Ettore Scola, James Ivory, Derek Jarman, Volker Schlondorff, Peter Medak, Lewis Gilbert, Franco Zeffirelli, Joseph Losey, Tony Richardson, Blake Edwards, John Frankenheimer, Norman Jewison, Basil Dearden, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Ken Russell, Lucio Fulci, David Cronenberg and Sidney Lumet.
He made his film debut in Ken Annakin’s classic, Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines. His lengthy CV also includes:
- James Bond – The Spy Who Loved Me
- The Name of the Rose
- The Day of the Jackal
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
- Caravaggio
- The Krays
- Nicholas and Alexandra
- That Night in Varennes
- The Scarlet and the Black
- Darling
- Scent of a Woman
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Jude
- Surviving Picasso
- M. Butterfly
- Let Him Have It
- Hamlet
- Enigma
- Condorman
- Nijinsky
- Operation Daybreak
- Mary Queen of Scots
- Galileo
- The Marseilles Contract
- The Beast in the Cellar
- The Canterbury Tales
- Anne of the Thousand Days
- A Dandy in Aspic
- The Assassination Bureau
- Baby Love
- The Taming of the Shrew.
His classic television include:
- Masada (directed by Boris Sagal)
- Doctor Who: The War Games
- Marco Polo
- As Time Goes
- Blakes 7
- The Avengers
- The Champions
- The Saint
- The World Of Wooster
- Camino Real
- Wagner
- Holocaust
- Fortunes Of War
- Till We Meet Again
- The Hunchback
- War And Remembrance.
In the theatre he has worked with most of the major repertory companies in England and many West End productions.
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