We're well aware now that Harold Ramis was a creative quadruple-threat as a writer, director, producer and actor, but Hollywood didn't quite see it that way initially. Having written for National Lampoon's pivotal 1973 stage show "Lemmings" and performing in its follow-up, "The National Lampoon Show," Ramis believed he was every bit as ready to pop as his co-stars Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Joe Flaherty, and Christopher Guest. 

So when Universal Pictures greenlit "Animal House," which he'd co-written with Lampoon chums Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller, the up-and-coming comedic dynamo figured he'd up and come.

Unfortunately, he was a bit ahead of...

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