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National Lampoon's Animal House is a 1978 American comedy film directed by John Landis and written by Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller. It stars John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Thomas Hulce, and Donald Sutherland. The film is about a trouble-making fraternity whose members challenge the authority of the dean ...
Otis Day and the Knights was a fictional R&B band shown performing in the 1978 movie National Lampoon's Animal House.Following the success of the film the actor portraying the group's lead singer acquired the rights to the name and created a real musical act that toured and recorded an album during the 1980s.
Starring John Belushi and written by Doug Kenney, Harold Ramis and Chris Miller, Animal House became one of the highest-grossing comedy films of all time. [1] Produced on a low budget, it was so enormously profitable that from that point onward for the next two decades, the name "National Lampoon" applied to the title of a movie was considered ...
Like the earlier "We're Not Gonna Take It", the video features actor Mark Metcalf, best known as the abusive ROTC leader Douglas C. Neidermeyer from the movie National Lampoon's Animal House. In the video, he plays a teacher with a similar personality to Neidermeyer, who harasses a student for drawing the Twisted Sister logo on one of his ...
In addition to singing the theme song off-screen, Bishop had a cameo appearance in National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978 (the aspiring folk singer billed as "Charming Guy with Guitar" who sang "The Riddle Song"). Charming Guy's guitar was smashed against a staircase wall at the Delta Tau Chi house by John "Bluto" Blutarsky (John Belushi). The ...
Mary Louise Weller, born September 1, 1946, is an American actress.She is perhaps best known for her role as Mandy Pepperidge in the popular 1978 film Animal House.She has guest-starred in television series such as Starsky & Hutch, Fantasy Island, B.J. and the Bear, Supertrain, and CHiPs, as well as appeared in Larry Cohen's film Q.
The song was famously performed in its entirety by Lloyd G. Williams (credited as Otis Day and the Knights) for the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House during the frat house toga party sequence. The Beatles recorded "Shout" in 1964 for a television special called Around the Beatles.
Kenney remained on the staff until 1977, when he left the magazine to co-write the screenplay to National Lampoon's Animal House with Chris Miller and Harold Ramis. [2] Kenney said of his time with the National Lampoon: "The Harvard Lampoon was my 'animal house.' I didn’t want it to end, so I got Matty to make it a national magazine.