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| | "Animal House" Dean Dead - Feb 04, 2005 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Feb 4, 2005, 3:05 PM PT John Vernon, who earned a measure of cinematic immortality dressing down Delta House as Dean Wormer in 1978's National Lampoon's Animal House, died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles of complications from heart surgery. |
 | | Perhaps the highlight of Dean Wormer's job in the film is to inform the toga-favoring Deltas, led by Bluto (John Belushi) and Otter (Tim Matheson), that they have been expelled from college after violating their "double-secret probation." |
 | | Director John Landis encouraged the younger members of the cast of Animal House to ad-lib in scenes, but gave Vernon no warning, as he wanted an unrehearsed reaction to the antics thought up by Belushi and the gang--for example, when Bluto shoves pencils up his nose as he's being lectured by Wormer. |
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