Verna Bloom, who appeared in “Animal House” and worked with the likes of Martin Scorsese, died Jan.
9 in Bar Harbor, Maine, her rep confirmed to Variety.
She was 80 years old.The cause was complications of dementia, her family stated.Although Bloom appeared extensively in theater and television, she is most noted for her film work.
One of her memorable roles came in John Landis’ 1978 comedy “Animal House,” in which she appeared as the drunken, debauched wife of the beleaguered Dean Wormer.
She also appeared in three films by Martin Scorsese — “Street Scenes 1970,” “The Last Temptation of Christ” (1998), and “After Hours” (1985) — and two by Clint Eastwood: “The High Plains Drifter” (1973) and “Honkytonk Man” (1982).Bloom was born in Lynn, Mass., in 1938.
After graduating from Boston University, she moved to Denver and started a local theater.
Moving to New York in the mid-1960s, she starred as Charlotte Corday in the Broadway revival of “Marat/Sade” and,
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