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.
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Ogre, along with a group of fellow college football jocks from the fictional Adams College, torment the nebbish freshman Lewis (Robert Carradine), Gilbert (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 whizzes, however, concoct a plan for revenge to put the jocks back in their place – in the gym.
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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.
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