Bill Murray 1950 75
Bill Murray 1950 75
William James Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is known for his deadpan delivery in roles ranging from studio comedies to independent dramas. He has frequently collaborated with directors Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, and Jim Jarmusch. He has earned numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards, as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. In 2016, Murray was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Murray was born in Evanston, Illinois, to Lucille (1921–1988), a mail-room clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II (1921–1967), a lumber salesman. He was raised in Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. Murray and his eight siblings grew up in an Irish Catholic family. His paternal grandfather was from County Cork, while his maternal ancestors were from County Galway. Three of his siblings, John Murray, Joel Murray, and Brian Doyle-Murray, are also actors.
Murray attended Regis University in Denver, Colorado, where he studied pre-med for a year. He dropped out after being arrested for marijuana possession. In 1973, he moved to New York City to pursue a career in comedy. He joined the National Lampoon Radio Hour, and later appeared in the National Lampoon stage show Lemmings.
In 1977, Murray joined the cast of Saturday Night Live. He quickly became one of the show's most popular cast members, known for his deadpan delivery and his ability to improvise. He left the show in 1980 to pursue a film career.
Murray's first major film role was in the 1979 comedy Meatballs. He went on to star in a number of successful comedies, including Caddyshack (1980), Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984), and Groundhog Day (1993). He has also starred in a number of critically acclaimed dramas, such as Lost in Translation (2003) and Broken Flowers (2005).
Murray is known for his eccentric and unpredictable behavior. He has been known to disappear from sets and film projects, and he has often been quoted as saying that he doesn't like to work. However, he is also known for his generosity and his willingness to help out his fellow actors.
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2025 Twilight Park as Mime Ringleader
2025 Being Mortal
2025 Epiphany as Oz Bell Executive Producer
2025 Bum's Rush as Bum
2025 The Ploughmen
2025 The Phoenician Scheme as God
2025 The Friend as Walter
2025 Riff Raff as Lefty
2025 SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
2025 Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self
2024 Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023 as Self
2024 The Friend
2024 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire as Peter Venkman
2023 Franz Klammer - The Ski "Kaiser" Will Be 70 as Self (archive footage)
2023 Spirit of Golf
2023 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania as Lord Krylar
2022 The Greatest Beer Run Ever as The Colonel
2021 Ghostbusters: Afterlife as Peter Venkman
2021 The French Dispatch as Arthur Howitzer, Jr.
2021 Live at Mister Kelly's as Self (archive footage)
2021 New Worlds, The Cradle of Civilization as Self Producer
2020 Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019 as Self
2020 Belushi as Self (archive footage)
2020 On the Rocks as Felix
2020 Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine as Self
2020 Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters as Self (archive footage)
2019 Fantastic Mr. Murray as Self - Portrait Subject (archive footage)
2019 Zombieland: Double Tap as Bill Murray
2019 Cola Wars as Self [Archival Footage]
2019 Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk as Narrator
2019 The Dead Don't Die as Chief Cliff Robertson
2018 TVTV: Video Revolutionaries as Self
2018 For The Fun Of The Game as Self
2018 Studio 54 as Self (archive footage)
2018 Always at The Carlyle as Self
2018 The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man as Himself
2018 Love, Gilda as Self (archive footage)
2018 Isle of Dogs as Boss (voice)
2017 The Bill Murray Experience as Himself
2016 '85: The Greatest Team in Football History as Self
2016 Ghostbusters as Martin Heiss
2016 The Jungle Book as Baloo (voice)
2015 A Very Murray Christmas as Bill Murray Writer, Executive Producer
2015 Rock the Kasbah as Richie Lanz
2015 Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon as Self
2015 Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom' as Self / Mr. Bishop
2015 Aloha as Carson Welch
2015 "That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To' as Self
2015 Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead as Self - Actor
2014 Dumb and Dumber To as Ice Pick
2014 St. Vincent as Vincent MacKenna
2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel as M. Ivan
2014 The Monuments Men as Sgt. Richard Campbell
2013 A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III as Saul
2012 Hyde Park on Hudson as Franklin D. Roosevelt
2012 Moonrise Kingdom as Mr. Bishop
2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen as (archive footage)
2011 Passion Play as Happy Shannon
2010 The Women of SNL as Richard Dawson / Various (archive footage)
2010 The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited' as Self - Businessman
2010 Ballhawks as Narrator
2010 Behind Jim Jarmusch as Self
2010 Get Low as Frank Quinn
2010 Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 as Self
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox as Clive Badger (voice)
2009 Zombieland as Bill Murray
2009 The Limits of Control as American
2008 City of Ember as Mayor Cole
2008 Get Smart as Agent 13
2008 A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' as Self
2007 Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 as Self
2007 FCU: Fact Checkers Unit as Bill Murray
2007 The Darjeeling Limited as The Businessman
2006 Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride as Self
2006 Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties as Garfield (voice)
2005 Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd as Various Characters (archive footage)
2005 The Lost City as The Writer
2005 Broken Flowers as Don Johnston
2005 This Is an Adventure as Self
2005 Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal as Self
2005 Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live as Self
2005 On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' as Self / Steve Zissou
2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as Steve Zissou
2004 Garfield: Bringing the Cat to Life as Self / Garfield (voice)
2004 This Old Cub as Himself
2004 Garfield as Garfield (voice)
2004 Coffee and Cigarettes as Bill Murray (segment "Delirium")
2004 Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation' as Self
2003 Lost in Translation as Bob Harris
2003 Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles as Bill Murray The K. (archive footage)
2002 Groundhog Day: The Weight of Time as Self (archive footage)
2001 With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson as Self (archival footage)
2001 Speaking of Sex as Ezri Stovall
2001 The Royal Tenenbaums as Raleigh St. Clair
2001 Osmosis Jones as Frank Detorre
2000 Charlie's Angels as John Bosley
2000 Hamlet as Polonius
2000 Michael Jordan to the Max as Self
2000 The Making of 'Rushmore' as Self
1999 Cradle Will Rock as Tommy Crickshaw
1999 Ghostbusters 1999 as Self - Archive Footage
1999 Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special as Self
1999 Caddyshack: The 19th Hole as Carl Spackler (archive footage)
1998 Rushmore as Herman Blume
1998 With Friends Like These as Maurice Melnick
1998 Wild Things as Kenneth Bowden
1997 The Man Who Knew Too Little as Wallace Ritchie
1996 Space Jam as Bill Murray
1996 Larger Than Life as Jack Corcoran
1996 Kingpin as Ernie McCracken
1995 R.E.M.: Rough Cut as Himself
1994 Ed Wood as Bunny Breckinridge
1993 Mad Dog and Glory as Frank Milo
1993 Groundhog Day as Phil Connors
1991 What About Bob? as Bob Wiley
1990 Quick Change as Grimm Director, Producer
1989 Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary as Self (archive footage)
1989 Ghostbusters II as Peter Venkman
1988 Scrooged as Francis Cross
1988 She's Having a Baby as Bill Murray (uncredited)
1986 Little Shop of Horrors as Arthur Denton
1986 Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary as Self
1985 The Best of John Belushi as Various Characters
1984 The Razor's Edge as Larry Darrell Screenplay
1984 Nothing Lasts Forever as Ted Breughel
1984 Ghostbusters as Peter Venkman
1982 Tootsie as Jeff Slater
1982 The Rodney Dangerfield Show: It's Not Easy Bein' Me as Various
1982 Twilight Theatre as Lefty in 'First Film'
1981 Steve Martin's Best Show Ever as Bytes
1981 Stripes as John Winger
1981 Cut Flowers
1980 Caddyshack as Carl Spackler
1980 The Missing Link as Dragon (voice)
1980 Where the Buffalo Roam as Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
1980 Bill Murray Live from the Second City as Self Writer
1979 Mr. Mike's Mondo Video as Man on the Street
1979 Meatballs as Tripper Harrison
1979 Perchance to Dream as Honker
1978 Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood as Self / Nixon Voter (uncredited)
1978 The Things We Did Last Summer as Self
1978 The Dogs
1978 Loose Shoes as Lefty
1978 The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash as Bill Murray the K.
1976 TVTV Looks at the Oscars as Self
1976 Super Bowl as Himself
1976 Next Stop, Greenwich Village as Nick Kessel (uncredited)