1950-09-21 Wilmette, Illinois, USA
William James Murray 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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Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special | Self (archive footage) | 2025-08-22 |
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SNL50: The Homecoming Concert | Self | 2025-02-14 |
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music | Self | 2025-01-27 |
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The Phoenician Scheme | God | 2025-05-23 |
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Riff Raff | Lefty | 2025-02-27 |
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The Friend | Walter | 2025-03-28 |
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire | Peter Venkman | 2024-03-20 |
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Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023 | Self | 2024-11-29 |
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Lord Krylar | 2023-02-15 |
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Spirit of Golf | Self | 2023-07-23 |
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Franz Klammer – Der Skikaiser wird 70 | Self (archive footage) | 2023-12-03 |
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever | The Colonel | 2022-09-23 |
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New Worlds, The Cradle of Civilization | Self | 2021-07-16 |
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The French Dispatch | Arthur Howitzer, Jr. | 2021-10-21 |
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Peter Venkman | 2021-11-18 |
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Belushi | Self (archive footage) | 2020-10-14 |
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Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters | Self (archive footage) | 2020-01-07 |
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Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine | Self | 2020-06-11 |
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On the Rocks | Felix | 2020-10-02 |
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Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019 | Self | 2020-11-20 |
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Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk | Narrator | 2019-06-07 |
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Cola Wars | Self [Archival Footage] | 2019-08-18 |
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Zombieland: Double Tap | Bill Murray | 2019-10-09 |
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The Dead Don't Die | Chief Cliff Robertson | 2019-05-15 |
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Le Fantastique Mr Murray | Self - Portrait Subject (archive footage) | 2019-10-20 |
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TVTV: Video Revolutionaries | Self | 2018-10-19 |
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Isle of Dogs | Boss (voice) | 2018-03-23 |
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The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man | Himself | 2018-05-02 |
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Always at The Carlyle | Self | 2018-05-11 |
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For The Fun Of The Game | Self | 2018-10-17 |
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Studio 54 | Self (archive footage) | 2018-06-15 |
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Love, Gilda | Self (archive footage) | 2018-04-18 |
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The Bill Murray Experience | Himself | 2017-12-19 |
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Ghostbusters | Martin Heiss | 2016-07-14 |
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'85: The Greatest Team in Football History | Self | 2016-10-01 |
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The Jungle Book | Baloo (voice) | 2016-04-07 |
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Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon | Self | 2015-10-13 |
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead | Self - Actor | 2015-01-25 |
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Rock the Kasbah | Richie Lanz | 2015-10-22 |
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À la découverte du tournage de Moonrise Kingdom | Self / Mr. Bishop | 2015-09-22 |
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A Very Murray Christmas | Bill Murray | 2015-12-04 |
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Aloha | Carson Welch | 2015-05-29 |
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"That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To' | Self | 2015-02-17 |
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The Grand Budapest Hotel | M. Ivan | 2014-02-26 |
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Dumb and Dumber To | Ice Pick | 2014-11-12 |
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The Monuments Men | Sgt. Richard Campbell | 2014-01-24 |
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St. Vincent | Vincent MacKenna | 2014-10-09 |
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A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III | Saul | 2013-02-08 |
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Moonrise Kingdom | Mr. Bishop | 2012-05-16 |
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Hyde Park on Hudson | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 2012-12-07 |
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Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
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Passion Play | Happy Shannon | 2011-01-10 |
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Ballhawks | Narrator | 2010-10-01 |
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The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited' | Self - Businessman | 2010-10-12 |
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Behind Jim Jarmusch | Self | 2010-09-01 |
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Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 | Self | 2010-06-26 |
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Get Low | Frank Quinn | 2010-07-30 |
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The Women of SNL | Richard Dawson / Various (archive footage) | 2010-11-01 |
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The Limits of Control | American | 2009-05-01 |
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Zombieland | Bill Murray | 2009-10-02 |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox | Clive Badger (voice) | 2009-10-14 |
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Get Smart | Agent 13 | 2008-06-19 |
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A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' | Self | 2008-02-05 |
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City of Ember | Mayor Cole | 2008-10-07 |
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The Darjeeling Limited | The Businessman | 2007-09-07 |
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FCU: Fact Checkers Unit | Bill Murray | 2007-09-09 |
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Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 | Self | 2007-12-07 |
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Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride | Self | 2006-12-12 |
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Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties | Garfield (voice) | 2006-06-15 |
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This Is an Adventure | Self | 2005-05-10 |
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On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' | Self / Steve Zissou | 2005-01-15 |
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Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal | Self | 2005-05-09 |
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Broken Flowers | Don Johnston | 2005-07-31 |
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Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live | Self | 2005-02-20 |
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Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd | Various Characters (archive footage) | 2005-09-06 |
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The Lost City | The Writer | 2005-09-03 |
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Garfield | Garfield (voice) | 2004-06-10 |
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Steve Zissou | 2004-12-10 |
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Coffee and Cigarettes | Bill Murray (segment "Delirium") | 2004-03-12 |
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Garfield: Bringing the Cat to Life | Self / Garfield (voice) | 2004-10-19 |
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This Old Cub | Himself | 2004-08-25 |
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Lost on Location | Self | 2004-02-03 |
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The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch | Bill Murray The K. (archive footage) | 2003-08-16 |
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Lost in Translation | Bob Harris | 2003-09-18 |
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Groundhog Day: The Weight of Time | Self (archive footage) | 2002-01-29 |
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With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson | Self (archival footage) | 2001-12-17 |
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Osmosis Jones | Frank Detorre | 2001-08-10 |
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Speaking of Sex | Ezri Stovall | 2001-10-18 |
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The Royal Tenenbaums | Raleigh St. Clair | 2001-10-05 |
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Michael Jordan to the Max | Self | 2000-05-05 |
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Charlie's Angels | John Bosley | 2000-11-02 |
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The Making of 'Rushmore' | Self | 2000-01-25 |
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Hamlet | Polonius | 2000-05-12 |
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Caddyshack: The 19th Hole | Carl Spackler (archive footage) | 1999-05-05 |
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Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special | Self | 1999-09-25 |
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Cradle Will Rock | Tommy Crickshaw | 1999-12-10 |
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Ghostbusters 1999 | Self - Archive Footage | 1999-10-29 |
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Wild Things | Kenneth Bowden | 1998-03-20 |
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Rushmore | Herman Blume | 1998-12-11 |
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With Friends Like These | Maurice Melnick | 1998-09-10 |
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The Man Who Knew Too Little | Wallace Ritchie | 1997-11-14 |
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Larger Than Life | Jack Corcoran | 1996-07-26 |
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Space Jam | Bill Murray | 1996-11-15 |
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Kingpin | Ernie McCracken | 1996-07-04 |
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R.E.M.: Rough Cut | Himself | 1995-10-24 |
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Ed Wood | Bunny Breckinridge | 1994-09-28 |
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Mad Dog and Glory | Frank Milo | 1993-03-05 |
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Groundhog Day | Phil Connors | 1993-02-11 |
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What About Bob? | Bob Wiley | 1991-05-17 |
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Quick Change | Grimm | 1990-07-13 |
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Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary | Self (archive footage) | 1989-09-24 |
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Ghostbusters II | Peter Venkman | 1989-06-16 |
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Scrooged | Francis Cross | 1988-11-22 |
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She's Having a Baby | Bill Murray (uncredited) | 1988-02-05 |
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Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary | Self | 1986-01-14 |
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Little Shop of Horrors | Arthur Denton | 1986-12-19 |
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The Best of John Belushi | Various Characters | 1985-08-03 |
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The Razor's Edge | Larry Darrell | 1984-10-19 |
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Nothing Lasts Forever | Ted Breughel | 1984-09-06 |
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Ghostbusters | Peter Venkman | 1984-06-08 |
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The Rodney Dangerfield Show: It's Not Easy Bein' Me | Various | 1982-05-12 |
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Twilight Theatre | Lefty in 'First Film' | 1982-02-13 |
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Tootsie | Jeff Slater | 1982-12-17 |
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Cut Flowers | 1981-03-07 | |
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Steve Martin's Best Show Ever | Bytes | 1981-11-25 |
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Stripes | John Winger | 1981-06-26 |
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Where the Buffalo Roam | Dr. Hunter S. Thompson | 1980-04-25 |
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Caddyshack | Carl Spackler | 1980-07-25 |
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Bill Murray Live from the Second City | Self | 1980-01-01 |
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Le Chaînon manquant | Dragon (voice) | 1980-05-21 |
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Mr. Mike's Mondo Video | Man on the Street | 1979-09-20 |
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Perchance to Dream | Honker | 1979-03-10 |
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Meatballs | Tripper Harrison | 1979-06-28 |
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The Dogs | 1978-10-02 | |
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The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash | Bill Murray the K. | 1978-03-22 |
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Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood | Self / Nixon Voter (uncredited) | 1978-11-02 |
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The Things We Did Last Summer | Self | 1978-10-28 |
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Loose Shoes | Lefty | 1978-09-01 |
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village | Nick Kessel (uncredited) | 1976-02-04 |
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TVTV Looks at the Oscars | Self | 1976-03-30 |
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Super Bowl | Himself | 1976-03-01 |
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The King of Counterfeit | ||
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The Ploughmen | ||
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Being Mortal | ||
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Twilight Park | Mime Ringleader | |
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Epiphany | Oz Bell | |
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Bum's Rush | Bum |
