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He was married to Alexandra Appleton Garcia-Mata. Kenney lived in Chagrin Falls from 1958 to 1964 and attended Gilmour Academy, a Catholic prep high school for boys in nearby Gates Mills, Ohio. His family moved to Mentor, Ohio, in the early 1950s, before settling in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. He was named for General Douglas MacArthur. His maternal grandparents, Anthony Karczewski and Victoria Lesniak, were Polish. Kenney and Eleanor Agnes (Noonan), were of Irish origin. He went on to write, produce and perform in the influential comedies Animal House and Caddyshack before his sudden death at the age of 33.ĭouglas Clark Francis Kenney was born in West Palm Beach, Florida to Estelle "Stephanie" (Karch) and Daniel Harold "Harry" Kenney, both originally from Massachusetts.

Kenney edited the magazine and wrote much of its early material. Douglas Clark Francis Kenney (Decem– August 27, 1980) was an American comedy writer of magazine, novels, radio, TV and film who co-founded the magazine National Lampoon in 1970.
