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Stephen Furst Dies: ‘Animal House’, ‘St. Elsewhere’ Actor Was 63 [Flounder]
Deadline Hollywood ^ | 6/17/17 | Greg Evans

Posted on 06/17/2017 5:18:08 PM PDT by Yossarian

Actor Stephen Furst, best known for his performances as the hapless Flounder in Animal House and put-upon rookie doc Eliott Axelrod on St. Elsewhere, died yesterday at his home in Moorpark, California, near Los Angeles, due to complications from diabetes.

His death was announced by his sons Nathan and Griffith Furst, who asked that fans “celebrate his life by watching one of his movies or use one of his bits to make someone else laugh – really, really hard.” See their entire statement below.

(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: diabetes; flounder
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Flounder passes - RIP.

By the way, he lost a LOT of weight in recent years.

1 posted on 06/17/2017 5:18:08 PM PDT by Yossarian
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I’ll remember him best as Vir Cotto. Ambassador Molari’s of the Centuri Republic able and pure-hearted assistant, and ultimate Emperor of The Republic. He played comedy and pathos well — sometimes within two sentences.


3 posted on 06/17/2017 5:23:34 PM PDT by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: Yossarian

Can I have ten thousand marbles please?


4 posted on 06/17/2017 5:23:43 PM PDT by o-n-money (We should rename California to Newer Mexico.)
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To: Travis McGee
What a great movie...perfectly cast.


5 posted on 06/17/2017 5:23:46 PM PDT by Yossarian
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6 posted on 06/17/2017 5:24:07 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Yossarian

I loved him in Silent Rage with Chuck Norris.


7 posted on 06/17/2017 5:24:11 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: Yossarian

He’s on G-d’s double secret probation now.


8 posted on 06/17/2017 5:26:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Yossarian

If I’d ever seen him in person, I would’ve waved to him. Like this.


9 posted on 06/17/2017 5:27:04 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: Yossarian

"Dorfman meet Mohammed, Jugdish, Sydney and Clayton."

10 posted on 06/17/2017 5:27:42 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Aw man...we needed the dues.

RIP Mr. Furst and thanks for some of the best humor ever to hit the big screen.


11 posted on 06/17/2017 5:27:44 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: nickcarraway

“Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”


12 posted on 06/17/2017 5:27:58 PM PDT by Yossarian
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Flounder always reminded me of Michael Moore.

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"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son."

I don't know about drunk, but Moore is certainly fat and stupid/

 

13 posted on 06/17/2017 5:29:44 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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RIP

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14 posted on 06/17/2017 5:30:54 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: William of Barsoom

15 posted on 06/17/2017 5:32:18 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (I don't give a damn about your feelings. Try to impress me with your convictions.)
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16 posted on 06/17/2017 5:33:25 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: o-n-money

He played Vir in Babylon 5.
Damned shame...


17 posted on 06/17/2017 5:33:54 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Yossarian

“Animal House” arrived in the European PX movie system about 6 months after making the rounds in the States, just like every other movie. It inspired a very raucous re-enactment of the “Toga Party” in the Bachelor Officers’ Quarters that also housed the local Officers’ Club facility. Reports of the party reached the various unit commanders in the community and mass “counseling” ensued on proper junior officer conduct and deportment. I think a few low-level letters of reprimand were temporarily placed in personnel files. “Pour encouragement les autres”, if you will...

RIP to Mr. Furst and condolences to his family.


18 posted on 06/17/2017 5:34:46 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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“You F’ed up, you trusted us”

LOL


19 posted on 06/17/2017 5:36:02 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Snickering Hound

The scene that made every loot-farming lawyer salivate.


20 posted on 06/17/2017 5:41:25 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Government should be done to cattle and not human beings." - John Milius)
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