{"id":22398,"date":"2026-10-05T22:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T22:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=22398"},"modified":"2026-10-05T22:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T22:04:26","slug":"mary-louise-weller-beloved-animal-house-actress-dies-at-79-%f0%9f%92%94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/?p=22398","title":{"rendered":"Mary Louise Weller, Beloved \u2018Animal House\u2019 Actress, Dies at 79 \ud83d\udc94"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hollywood is mourning the loss of Mary Louise Weller, best known for playing Mandy Pepperidge in the 1978 comedy classic <em>Animal House<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weller passed away on October 1 after a brief illness, just one day before her 80th birthday. Her family announced the heartbreaking news through her Facebook account and asked for privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in Brooklyn in 1946, Weller began her acting career in the early 1970s and appeared in shows including <em>Starsky and Hutch<\/em>, <em>Baretta<\/em>, and <em>Kojak<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it was her role as Mandy Pepperidge in <em>Animal House<\/em> that made her recognizable to millions. She appeared alongside John Belushi, Tim Matheson, and a young Kevin Bacon in the beloved comedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After stepping away from acting, Weller devoted much of her time to horses and writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She is survived by her longtime partner, Michael Roy Curtis, and her cousin, author Sheila Weller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rest in peace, Mary Louise Weller. \ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f\ud83d\udc94<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood is mourning the loss of Mary Louise Weller, best known for playing Mandy Pepperidge in the 1978 comedy classic Animal House. Weller passed away on October 1 after a brief illness, just one day before her 80th birthday. Her family announced the heartbreaking news through her Facebook account and asked for privacy. Born in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22400,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22398\/revisions\/22400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cehre.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}