Is Faber Recruiting Him?

The laid-back home of Griffith Feuerstein, a defensive tackle on the Moorpark High football team, is completely unlike the house his father, Stephen, was part of in 1978.

Playing the role of Flounder in the movie “Animal House,” Stephen Furst (his screen name) was a freshman fraternity pledge for the party-happy Delta house at Faber College.

Furst, who was also Dr. Elliot Axelrod for five years on the 1980s television series “St. Elsewhere,” is now Vir on “Babylon 5.”

But he is most famous for the role of Flounder, who compiled a 0.2 grade-point average while being corrupted by frat brothers John Belushi and Tim Matheson.

“My friends are always watching it on TV,” said Griffith, who estimates he has seen his father’s movie 20 times. “He’s nothing like that, but everybody thinks he is. He’s a lot more strict in real life.”

Griffith, a junior, has already taken steps to be an actor.

He was an extra--a paperboy, actually--in a cable-TV movie and had a chance to be a dead patient in “Babylon 5,” but attended football two-a-day practices instead.

“I’m trying to get into [acting], but football season sometimes gets in the way,” he said.

Football also gets in the way for Stephen, who finds himself an active spectator at Moorpark games.

“I’m pretty reserved, but when [Griffith] gets close to the quarterback, I get pretty crazy,” he said. “I’m like, ‘Kill him, kill him!’ ”

Kind of like those raucous days on the “Animal House” set?

“We went through a lot of candy glass,” Stephen said. “It was a lot of fun.”