Stephen Furst kept the rent paid as a Los Angeles pizza delivery man before striking pay dirt as an actor. Furst was fortunate enough to land the role of Kent "Flounder" Dorman in the 1978 hit movie National Lampoon's Animal House. The most immediate aftereffect of this was Furst's very brief engagement as "Flounder" in the Animal House TV spin-off Delta House. A few teen-oriented raunchfests later, Furst went "respectable" as Dr. Elliot Axelrod on the weekly TVer St. Elsewhere, a role he held down from 1983 until the series' cancellation in 1988. In 1993, Stephen Furst directed, co-wrote and acted in The Magic Kid ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide