Home shoppers looking for a place with a conversation-starting story might consider the Eugene residence actor John Belushi lived in while filming the 1978 comedy “National Lampoon’s Animal ...

When John Belushi first walked on the set of "National Lampoon’s Animal House," Tim Matheson was expecting a "colossal coked-up prima donna." "Many people thought, ‘He’s going to be like he ...

As everyone who's ever attended the University of Oregon knows, "Animal House" was filmed in Eugene for 32 days in the fall of 1977. John Belushi was there three days a week and returned to New ...

Don a Toga for Belushi's Birthday Otis From "Animal House" to appear at Faith & Whiskey By Marcus Riley • Published January 20, 2010 • Updated on January 20, 2010 at 6:45 pm ...

"Toga, toga!" John Belushi chants in the 1978 classic film about college debauchery "National Lampoon's Animal House." The singer-actor-comedian was immortalized in the film as Bluto, perhaps his ...

Director John Landis, Bruce McGill and John Belushi on the set of Animal House, 1978. From the Everett Collection.

Many cast members from the 1978 cult comedy classic "Animal House" and director John Landis are holding a reunion this weekend in the Berkshires.

Who can forget those words from the 1978 movie, Animal House? John Belushi and his group of misfit fraternity friends throw a toga party after learning they were being punished by the school's dean.

Although “Animal House” would launch much of its cast -- including John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Kevin Bacon and Tom Hulce - toward stardom, they were barely known then, much less bankable.

“National Lampoon’s Animal House,” the rowdy blockbuster that launched a thousand campus toga parties and reinvented the college comedy, barely found a studio backer. Warner Bros. passed.

Toga! Toga! Toga! Bluto (John Belushi) and Otter (Tim Matheson) started that call to action for the fraternity party immortalized in 1978's Animal Hous e.

John Belushi and Tim Matheson in a scene from “Animal House.” ©Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection In his book, Matheson was adamant that Belushi wasn’t using drugs while filming.