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Richard Vernon
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Richard Vernon is one of Britain's most distinguished leading character actors. He first appeared in London as Mr. Darling in PETER PAN, and he has starred in a great many highly successful TV plays and long-running series, including THE MEN IN ROOM 17, THE DUCHESS OF DUKE STREET, as Lord Salisbury in EDWARD VII and Yorkshire's award winning play SARAH. He took over Sir Laurence Olivier's' role in SATURDAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY when this play transferred from the National to the Queen's Theatre. Incidentally, his ancestor Admiral Vernon was the originator of the Grog Ration for the Navy.
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Richard Vernon is the tough frustrated school teacher, played by Paul Gleason. He thinks that all kids are arrogant, and constantly wonders why he bothers teaching. His battle to show up John Bender is one the main backround themes of the story. A supurb performance makes him a very believable character.
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After the death in 1996 of her partner, Richard Vernon, Betty Kirk-Owen married the celebrated Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas whom she and Richard had first met during the early 1960s. The Kirk-Owen family has an interesting history which may be found on the web site of Antony Maitland.
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Richard Vernon teaches various periods of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literature as well as Spanish and Portuguese language courses. His research embraces Portuguese, Brazilian, and Luso-African authors from the 16th-20th century. He specializes in non-traditional and marginal literary forms that are appropriated for social and political subversion, for example 18th-century Portuguese street literature and Brazilian children's literature from the period of the military
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In December 1738 Vernon approached Sir Charles Wager, then the first Lord of the Admiralty, for a command. Wager's political orientation requires investigation. His voting record on the Customs & Excise Bill in 1733, coupled with his position at the Admiralty, suggests that he was very much in Walpole's pocket. Credence is added to the widespread contemporary suspicion that Walpole hoped that Vernon would fail at Porto Bello. Wager appears to have trod a delicate political line. It may very well be that he thought Vernon would not succeed.
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Richard Vernon (March 7, 1925 รข€“ December 4, 1997) was a British actor. He appeared in many feature films and television programmes, often in aristocratic roles (for example as Lord Bartelsham in the Ripping Yarns episode Roger of the Raj and, in a serious mode, as Squire Dale in the BBC radio 4 adaptation of The Small House at Allington).
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