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Date of Birth : Sep 21st 1950

Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-winning American comedian and actor. He is perhaps most famous for his work in Saturday Night Live, as well as for his comedic roles in films such as Stripes, Groundhog Day, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters and Rushmore, among many others. He has gained further acclaim for recent dramatic roles, such as in the acclaimed films Lost In Translation, Broken Flowers and The Royal Tenenbaums.

With an invitation from his older brother, Brian, Murray got his start at Second City Chicago studying under Del Close. The improvisational comedy troupe was a perfect fit for Murray’s clever, dry humor and ad libbing. He eventually became a featured player on The National Lampoon Radio Hour, aired on some 600 stations from 1973 to 1974.

In 1975, he landed his first television role as a cast member of the ABC variety show Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell. That same season, another variety show titled NBC’s Saturday Night premiered. Cosell’s show lasted just one season.

Murray later revisited the troupe he started with in the TV special Bill Murray Live From the Second City in 1980.

Murray began work on a film adaptation of the novel The Razor’s Edge. The film, which Murray also co-wrote, was his first starring role in a dramatic film. He later agreed to star in Ghostbusters in a role originally written for John Belushi. This was a deal Murray made with Columbia Pictures in order to gain financing for his film. Ghostbusters became the highest-grossing film of 1984. But The Razor’s Edge, which was filmed before Ghostbusters but not released until after, was a box-office flop. Upset over the failure of Razor’s Edge, Murray took four years off from acting to study Philosophy and history at the Sorbonne and spend time with his family in their Hudson River Valley home. With the exception of a memorable cameo in the 1986 movie Little Shop of Horrors, he did not make any appearances in films.


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Wild Things ( 2022 )

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Isle of Dogs ( 2018 )

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Ghostbusters ( 2016 )

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The Jungle Book ( 2016 )

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Rock the Kasbah ( 2016 )

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Aloha ( 2015 )

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Moonrise Kingdom ( 2012 )

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Get Low ( 2010 )

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Passion Play ( 2010 )

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Zombieland ( 2009 )

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City of Ember ( 2008 )

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Get Smart ( 2008 )

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Broken Flowers ( 2005 )

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Garfield ( 2004 )

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Osmosis Jones ( 2001 )

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Cradle Will Rock ( 2000 )

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Rushmore ( 1999 )

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Space Jam ( 1997 )

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Kingpin ( 1996 )

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Ed Wood ( 1995 )

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Groundhog Day ( 1993 )

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Quick Change ( 1991 )

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Ghostbusters II ( 1989 )

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Scrooged ( 1988 )

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Ghostbusters ( 1984 )

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Tootsie ( 1982 )

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Stripes ( 1981 )

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Caddyshack ( 1980 )

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Meatballs ( 1979 )

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Up the Junction ( 1968 )

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