Stephen Furst

Stephen Furst has starred in many motion pictures and television series, beginning with the smash hit comedy classic, National Lampoon's Animal House, where he starred as the lovable yet bumbling fraternity freshman, Flounder.

Stephen did a series of other motion pictures including Silent Rage, Up The Creek and The Day After. He also starred as the semi-speechless mental patient in The Dream Team along with Michael Keaton and Christopher Lloyd.

Stephen Furst starred in the highly acclaimed medical drama show St. Elsewhere as Dr. Elliot Axlerod. He then hung up his doctor scrubs and donned a special hair-do, eyebrows and teeth to play the character of Vir, in the Warner Bros. Science fiction hit Babylon 5.

Stephen has also provided the voices for some very famous characters in the world of animation from The Little Mermaid movie to the television series Buzz Lightyear and the Star Command.

Stephen Furst's film Dragon Storm was the highest rated original two-hour movie in the history of the Sci Fi Channel. He has just returned from Europe where he directed another feature for the Sci Fi Channel entitled, Stratosphere about nano-technology gone terribly wrong.

Stephen is also a spokesman for the American Diabetes foundation. Stephen and actor Stuart Pankin have put together a humorous, sarcastic, slapstick "guy" comedy video based on his life. The video teaches valuable lessons about proper diabetes care.

Stephen narrates as Stuart Pankin mimics his buddy's former life as a 320-pound couch potato. Simple, hilarious vignettes recreated from films like Mission Impossible, Psycho, Austin Powers and other popular flicks parody Stephen Furst's evil ways and demonstrate the point of good diabetes management in an exaggerated way.

Stephen Furst's book, "Confessions of a Couch Potato" recently won the Bronze Award for excellence. It is published by American Diabetes and distributed by McGraw-Hill.