Dramatic and comedic actor Leslie Nielsen had a career spanning 60 years, he appeared in more than 100 films
and 150 television programs, portraying more than 220 characters.
Nielsen, upon his discharge from the Royal Canadian
Air Force at the end of World War ll, became a disc
jockey before receiving a scholarship to study theatre
at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
On July 28, 1978, National Lampoon’s Animal House, a movie
spoof about 1960s college fraternities starring John Belushi,
opened in U.S. theaters. Produced with an estimated budget
of $3 million, Animal House became a huge, multi-million-dollar
box-office hit, spawned a slew of cinematic imitations and
became part of pop-culture history with such memorable lines
as “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
Set at the fictional Faber College (the University of Oregon
served as a stand-in during filming), Animal House centered
around the disreputable Delta House fraternity.
John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982)
The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876.
Camille Bohannon
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014)
Williams is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of
all time.
Lawrence Samuel Storch (January 8, 1923 – July 8, 2022)
Larry Storch, the manic actor who starred as the bumbling sidekick Corporal Randolph Agarn on the 1960s ABC sitcom F Troop, has
died. He was 99.
TIM MAGUIRE
Comedian & film maker Mel Brooks is 96 today.
(born Melvin Kaminsky in New York City)
