{"id":579499,"date":"2017-06-18T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=579499"},"modified":"2017-06-18T06:05:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T04:05:40","slug":"stephen-furst-flounder-in-animal-house-dies-at-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/fr\/2017\/06\/stephen-furst-flounder-in-animal-house-dies-at-63\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Furst, Flounder in \u2018Animal House,\u2019 dies at 63"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Furst, who played naive fraternity pledge Flounder in the hit movie \u00ab\u00a0Animal House, \u00a0\u00bb has died of complications from diabetes, his family said Saturday. Furst was 63. …<\/b>
\nLOS ANGELES \u2014 Stephen Furst, who played naive fraternity pledge Flounder in the hit movie \u00ab\u00a0Animal House, \u00a0\u00bb has died of complications from diabetes, his family said Saturday. Furst was 63.
Furst died Friday at his home in Moorpark, California, north of Los Angeles, said his son, Nathan Furst.
Furst played Kent \u00ab\u00a0Flounder\u00a0\u00bb Dorfman in the 1978 film that also starred John Belushi. It was Belushi’s character, Blutarsky, who drew Flounder into a prank that went terribly wrong and ended up with the frantic Flounder shooting a gun loaded with blanks into a ceiling, frightening a horse so much that it died of a heart attack.
Furst’s long list of credits included the 1980s medical drama \u00ab\u00a0St. Elsewhere, \u00a0\u00bb on which he played Dr. Elliot Axelrod. He played Vir Coto and was an occasional director on the 1990s sci-fi series \u00ab\u00a0Babylon 5.\u00a0\u00bb
He also voiced characters on projects including TV’s \u00ab\u00a0Buzz Lightyear of Star Command\u00a0\u00bb and the video \u00ab\u00a0The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea.\u00a0\u00bb
\u00ab\u00a0He was proudest of his family, and he felt blessed and incredibly privileged to have the career that he had and enjoyed, \u00a0\u00bb Nathan Furst said Saturday.
Stephen Furst also was a director and producer, working with his other son, Griff. Their Curmudgeon Film projects included the movies \u00ab\u00a0My Sister’s Keeper\u00a0\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0Cold Moon, \u00a0\u00bb a suspense thriller set for release in October, Griff Furst said.
Stephen Furst’s survivors include his wife, Lorraine, and two grandchildren, his sons said.<\/p>\n

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