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Harvey: Verne, I really don't like it when you tease the dogs.
Vernon: What are you, some kind of animal lover?
~ Harvey and Vernon.

Harvey and Vernon are the secondary antagonists in the 1992 family comedy Beethoven.

They are henchmen who work for their employer, Dr. Herman Varnick, in his drastic agenda in kidnapping dogs for scientific experiments.

Harvey was portrayed by Oliver Platt, who also portrayed Carl Anheuser in 2012, Apollo in Gods Behaving Badly, and High Priest in Year One, and Vernon was portrayed by Stanley Tucci, who also portrayed Frank in Jury DutyGeorge Harvey in The Lovely Bones, Lord Roderick in Jack the Giant Slayer, Mr. Jefferson Jasper Rene Berk in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl and Berand Joshua Joyce in Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Biography[]

Harvey and Vernon are first seen in the opening in Dr. Herman Varnick's lab, carrying a dog cage. After Dr. Varnick's request for puppies, the two go to steal some from the Docktor Pet Center but stop short when Harvey accidentally triggers the alarm, forcing the two to run for it. Two of the puppies, a Jack Russell Terrier called Sparky and a St. Bernard we soon know as Beethoven, outwit them and escape their van. The St. Bernard eventually finds the Newton family.

Later, Harvey and Vernon capture Sparky who helped Beethoven escape their van.

Once Dr. Varnick gets a hold of Beethoven, he has Harvey and Vernon take the St. Bernard to the testing area. Later before the climax, Dr. Varnick orders them to bring Beethoven for the ammo test and a smaller dog for a chemical test. Vernon decides to use Sparky for the chemical test. After subduing Beethoven, Dr. Varnick prepares to shoot at him but George smashes into the area and knocks out Harvey. When Dr. Varnick is sedated by Ted driving family car into the testing area wall (launching injections into him), Vernon and Harvey try to make a run for it. Ted orders the now freed dogs to "sic them" and the chase is on with the two men desperately trying to get away, knocking people and objects over in their haste. Eventually, Harvey and Vernon reach a junkyard gate and climb over it, taunting Beethoven and the other dogs. However, much to their horror, they made a near-fatal mistake when they discover four vicious dobermans on the other side guarding the junkyard and they both scream with terror as the dobermans attack them.

Harvey and Vernon are last seen in bandages as they are being arrested along with their boss.

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