{"id":868925,"date":"2026-10-03T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868925\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:42:08","slug":"mary-louise-weller-dead-animal-houses-mandy-pepperidge-was-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/868925\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Louise Weller Dead: ‘Animal House’s Mandy Pepperidge Was 79"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMary Louise Weller<\/a>, who played sorority girl Mandy Pepperidge in the 1978 comedy classic Animal House<\/a> and had two dozen other film and TV credits, died October 1 after a brief illness \u2014 one day before her 80th birthday.<\/p>\n

\n\tWeller had played bit roles in a pair of movies and guested on TV dramas Kojak and Baretta before landing the Mandy role in John Landis\u2019 early-\u201960s college tale Animal House. It was a key supporting role, with the character being the girlfriend of Greg, president of Delta Tau Chi\u2019s rival fraternity, and who had a fling with Delta\u2019s Otter (Tim Matheson). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe queen bee of her Pi sorority, Mandy is riding a float during the climatic homecoming parade scene when she is abducted by pirate-clad John \u201cBluto\u201d Blutarsky (John Belushi) of the Delta house. In the film\u2019s \u201cWhat became of\u2026\u201d epilogue, Mandy is seen snuggling with Bluto as they drive off in a convertible and ID\u2019d as Senator and Mrs. Blutarsky.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Donald Sutherland Dies: Revered Actor In \u2018Klute\u2019, \u2018Ordinary People\u2019, \u2018Animal House\u2019, \u2018Hunger Games\u2019 & Scores Of Others Was 88<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tBorn on October 2, 1946, in New York City, Weller\u2019s post-Animal House career saw her guesting on such popular TV series as Starsky & Hutch, The Hardy Boys\/Nancy Drew Mysteries, B.J. and the Bear, Vega$ and twice on Fantasy Island and CHiPs. She co-starred opposite Chuck Norris in the 1982 big-screen crime thriller Forced Vengeance and also appeared that same year the features Bloodtide and Q: The Winger Serpent.<\/p>\n

\n\tHer final credit was a 1983 episode of the Jack Klugman-led crime drama Quincy, M.E.<\/p>\n

\n\tInformation on survivors or a memorial service was not available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Louise Weller, who played sorority girl Mandy Pepperidge in the 1978 comedy classic Animal House and had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[290217,88,366356,17204,13441],"class_list":["post-868925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-animal-house","tag-entertainment","tag-mary-louise-weller","tag-novid","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}