Ivan Reitman

Born October 27, 1946· Komárno, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic]

† Died February 12, 2022

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Emerging from a refugee family that settled in Canada after fleeing wartime Czechoslovakia, he earned a music degree at McMaster University where he began making short films. Launching his career in Toronto television, he quickly moved into feature production, scoring the breakthrough hit National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and directing the cult comedy Meatballs (1979). Subsequent directing su…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources