Matty Simmons, who co-founded the National Lampoon magazine and produced films including 'Animal House' and the 'Vacation' movies starring Chevy Chase, died Wednesday
"Yesterday I lost my hero," daughter Kate Simmonsin an Instagram post. "My dad had gone from the sharpest, healthiest 93-year-old most people have encountered to abruptly having every imaginable issue except corona."
The Brooklyn-born Simmons, an executive with Diner's Club, the first credit card company, was brought on to assist Harvard Lampoon alumni Doug Kenney and Henry Beard in the publication of From that emerged the John Landis-directed , starring John Belushi as one of a bunch of Delta Tau Chi misfits who battle their dean and a rival fraternity's president to keep their spot on campus. Simmons and Ivan Reitman produced the movie at Universal.
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