When Faber College was about to expel the misfit Deltas of “Animal House,” the rambunctious character Bluto Blutarski rallied them, but it was writer Harold Ramis who provided Bluto’s ...

Harold Ramis wrote the role of Bluto, a seventh-year college student with a GPA of 0.0, just for Belushi. (SOUNDBITE OF MOVIE, "ANIMAL HOUSE") JOHN BELUSHI: (as Bluto) Nothing is over until we ...

Comedy actor, writer and director Harold Ramis is best known for the 1984 film ... is we sat down and debriefed ourselves totally on our college experiences. Each of us said everything we ...

Chances are good that, at some point, Harold Ramis cracked you ... the-dean antics in Animal House (which Ramis co-wrote) were partly inspired by his college days in Washington University in ...

Harold Ramis is the best writer and director from ... When he returned home after college, he freelanced for the Chicago Daily News. This got him a job as a joke editor for Playboy and eventually ...

When I walked out of a screening Monday morning to the news that Harold Ramis was dead at 69 ... latter-day movie slapstick that had its roots in college humor magazines and those two bastions ...

Ramis would also co-write Rodney Dangerfield’s 1986 college comedy, Back to School (Screenplay by Steve Kampmann & Will Porter and Peter Torokvei & Harold Ramis, Story by Rodney Dangerfield ...

Also read: Harold Ramis, ‘Buddha of Comedy,’ Remembered By Rainn Wilson, Patton Oswalt Born to shopkeepers on Chicago’s north side, Ramis began writing plays in college in St. Louis ...

Harold Ramis, an actor, writer and director credited ... In 1978, Mr. Ramis co-wrote “Animal House,” a college farce starring his fellow Second City alumnus John Belushi.

Harold Ramis. Funny, gracious ... House,' which made the latter a household name and still inspires jokes among college students decades later. Belushi was one of three future Hollywood stars ...