By Dave McNary Film Reporter Media executive Matty Simmons, a producer of the influential “National Lampoon’s Animal House” and “National Lampoon’s Vacation” comedy movies, died Wednesday in Los Angeles.
He was 93. His daughter, Kate Simmons, announced the news on her Instagram account on Thursday. “Yesterday I lost my hero,” she wrote, in part. “My dad had gone from the sharpest, healthiest 93 year old most people have encountered to abruptly having every imaginable issue except corona.
What he did in a lifetime was legendary.” Matty Simmons was a Brooklyn native and an executive VP at the Diners Club credit card company.
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