LOS ANGELES, CA – JULY 11: Donald Gibb arrives at the 2012 ESPY Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on July 11, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Tran/FilmMagic)
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Donald Gibb, who starred as the brutish football player Ogre in the 1984 campus comedy classic Revenge of the Nerds, has died.
The actor’s son, Travis, told TMZ that his father died Tuesday after suffering from health complications in Texas. He was 71.
Frederick Aloysius Palowaski, aka “Ogre” — along with a group of fellow college football teammates from the fictional Adams College — torment the nebbish freshman Lewis Skolnick (Robert Carradine), Gilbert Lowe (Anthony Edwards) and their fellow classmates, dubbed “nerds,” under the guidance of the team’s coach, Harris (John Goodman).
From left to right, Donald Gibb, Ted McGinley and Matt Salinger face the scorn of their coach, played by John Goodman, in the film ‘Revenge of the Nerds’. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
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The players, who lost their Alpha Beta frat house to a fire, kick the “nerds” out of their freshman dorm at the beginning of the film. The group of math and computer whizzes, however, concoct a plan for revenge to put the jocks back in their place – in the gym.
Gibb also starred in sequels Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise in 1987 and Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love in 1994. Gibb did not, however, appear in the 1992 TV movie Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation.
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Donald Gibb Appeared In More Than 90 Screen Roles
Born Donald Richard Gibb on Aug. 4, 1954, in New York City, Gibb’s first screen role came in an uncredited role as a henchman in the Clint Eastwood action comedy Any Which Way You Can.
The bit role was followed by a pair of uncredited turns in two more high-profile films, as a bouncer in the mud-wrestling bar in Bill Murray’s 1981 comedy Stripes; and King Osric’s (Max von Sydow) in the 1982 Arnold Schwarzenegger fantasy adventure Conan the Barbarian.
Before landing the role of Ogre in Revenge of the Nerds two years later, Gibb appeared in a string of television guest roles in such series as Alice, Simon & Simon, Hardcastle and McCormick, The A-Team and Magnum: P.I.
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