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Mark Metcalfe as an actor often identified as playing the role of an antagonist. He is best known for his role as the sadistic ROTC officer

Douglas T. Niedemeyermeier in the 1978 comedy Animal House, a character he later emulated

in the 1984 music videos for the songs We're Not Gonna Take It and I Want to Rock by the heavy metal

hair band, Twisted Sister.

He is also known for playing the role of The Maestro on the hit sitcom Seinfeld.

Mark Metcalfe sat down with Greg Hangler and shared his story.

Here's Mark.

I was born in Findlay, Ohio, which is the home of Tasty Taters, and where Ben Rathesburg grew up and lived.

In fact, in Hancock County where Findlay Ohio is, which is about 75 miles south of Toledo,

I'm the second most famous person to ever come out of Findlay, Ohio, according to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever makes those

things up.

Ben Rothesburg is number one, and I'm number two, but that's all right. I'll take number two.

So I was born there. My mom was from Ohio, and my dad was from Missouri, St. Louis, and they met

during the war in 45, I guess. My mother was a wave,

and she was decoding messages in an office in Washington, D.C. My dad, who had served most

of the war on a carrier in the Pacific was back doing some intelligence work, analysis,

and things like that. My mother lived in a house, she used to tell this story. My mother lived

in a house with five other women, all involved in the war effort. And my father used to come up to their house for dinner,

and every one of the women, except my mother,

thought that he was going to ask one of them to marry them.

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