“Animal House” was filmed in Eugene for 32 days in the fall of 1977. Belushi was there three days a week and returned to New York to perform in NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” on the weekends.

John Belushi was a comedy legend who gave us numerous memorable roles to appreciate for generations, but his Police Squad!

NEW YORK (AP) -- Director John Landis says one of John Belushi's more memorable scenes in the 1978 frat-house comedy, "Animal House," wasn't scripted.

Kevin Bacon talks about being starstruck at SNL50: The Homecoming Concert, John Belushi introducing him to lox and mimosas on the set of Animal House and filming The Bondsman. 27,371 people played ...

The actor worked with John Belushi in “Animal House.” ©Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection Belushi died of a drug overdose in 1982 at the age of 33. ©Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection ...

He acted alongside Animal House co-star John Belushi yet again in Stephen Spielberg’s 1941, and received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his role of President John Hoynes on The West Wing.

Donald Sutherland was instrumental in getting "Animal House" made when he signed on. He did it as a favor to the film's director, John Landis, but wanted more money instead of points.

"National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978) turned 40 this July.The movie follows two college first-years in 1962, Larry Kroger (Thomas Hulce) and Kent Dorfman (Stephen Furst), who join the Delta Tau Chi ...

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 ...

Judy had uncredited appearances in both “Animal House” (1978) and “The Blues Brothers” (1980). In 1990, she married film producer Victor Pisano, though the marriage ended in divorce in 2010.

Pisano was married to Belushi, the larger-than-life star of “Saturday Night Live,” “Animal House” and “The Blues Brothers,” from 1973 until his death from an overdose in 1982.