Los Angeles, CA -- Character actor John Vernon, who played the tormented Dean Wormer in "National Lampoon's Animal House," has died in Los Angeles. He was 72. His daughter, Kate Vernon, says her ...

Arguably one of the most influential college films in the zeitgeist of American cinema, “Animal House,” released in 1978, centers around the tumultuous experiences of so-called bottom-tier fraternity ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) John Vernon, a stage-trained character actor who played cunning villains in film and TV and made his comedy mark as Dean Wormer in "National Lampoon's Animal House," has died. He was ...

In "Animal House" -- the movie, not the legislative body -- when the Deltas vow revenge on their tormentors, Bluto sputters: "I'm not gonna take this! Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead!

Beloved classic follows the tussle between the Deltas and Omegas. Forty years since its release, “Animal House,” the iconic college comedy, continues to endure with memorable lines like “Fat, drunk ...