1950-09-21 Wilmette, Illinois, USA
William James "Bill" 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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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music | Self | 2025-01-27 |
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The Friend | Walter | 2025-03-28 |
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Riff Raff | Lefty | 2025-02-27 |
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The Phoenician Scheme | God | 2025-05-23 |
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SNL50: The Homecoming Concert | Self | 2025-02-14 |
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John Candy: I Like Me | Self - Mainstage Cast, The Second City | 2025-09-04 |
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Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special | Self (archive footage) | 2025-08-22 |
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Christmas in Nashville | Self | 2025-12-03 |
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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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Franz Klammer – Der Skikaiser wird 70 | Self (archive footage) | 2023-12-03 |
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Spirit of Golf | Self | 2023-07-23 |
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania | Lord Krylar | 2023-02-15 |
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever | The Colonel | 2022-09-23 |
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Peter Venkman | 2021-11-18 |
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The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun | Arthur Howitzer, Jr. | 2021-10-21 |
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New Worlds, The Cradle of Civilization | Self | 2021-07-16 |
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On the Rocks | Felix | 2020-10-02 |
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Belushi | Self (archive footage) | 2020-05-16 |
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Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine | Self | 2020-06-11 |
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Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters | Self (archive footage) | 2020-01-07 |
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Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019 | Self | 2020-11-20 |
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Le Fantastique Mr Murray | Self - Portrait Subject (archive footage) | 2019-10-20 |
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Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk | Narrator | 2019-06-07 |
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The Dead Don't Die | Chief Cliff Robertson | 2019-05-15 |
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Zombieland: Double Tap | Bill Murray | 2019-10-09 |
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Cola Wars | Self (archive footage) | 2019-08-18 |
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Always at The Carlyle | Self | 2018-05-11 |
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Studio 54 | Self (archive footage) | 2018-06-15 |
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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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For The Fun Of The Game | Self | 2018-10-17 |
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Love, Gilda | Self (archive footage) | 2018-04-18 |
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TVTV: Video Revolutionaries | Self | 2018-10-19 |
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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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Rock the Kasbah | Richie Lanz | 2015-10-22 |
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"That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To' | Self | 2015-02-17 |
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Aloha | Carson Welch | 2015-05-29 |
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead | Self - Actor | 2015-01-25 |
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À la découverte du tournage de Moonrise Kingdom | Self / Mr. Bishop | 2015-09-22 |
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Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon | Self | 2015-10-13 |
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A Very Murray Christmas | Bill Murray | 2015-12-04 |
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The Grand Budapest Hotel | M. Ivan | 2014-02-26 |
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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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Dumb and Dumber To | Ice Pick | 2014-11-12 |
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A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III | Saul | 2013-02-08 |
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Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
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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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Passion Play | Happy Shannon | 2011-01-10 |
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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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The Women of SNL | Richard Dawson / Various (archive footage) | 2010-11-01 |
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Get Low | Frank Quinn | 2010-07-30 |
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Ballhawks | Narrator | 2010-10-01 |
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Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 | Self | 2010-06-26 |
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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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The Limits of Control | American | 2009-05-01 |
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City of Ember | Mayor Cole | 2008-10-07 |
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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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FCU: Fact Checkers Unit | Bill Murray | 2007-09-09 |
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Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation | Self | 2007-05-06 |
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The Darjeeling Limited | The Businessman | 2007-09-07 |
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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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Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found | Self | 2005-04-15 |
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Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd | Various Characters (archive footage) | 2005-09-06 |
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Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live | Self | 2005-02-20 |
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The Lost City | The Writer | 2005-09-03 |
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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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Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation' | Self | 2004-02-03 |
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Garfield | Garfield (voice) | 2004-06-10 |
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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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Coffee and Cigarettes | Bill Murray (segment "Delirium") | 2004-03-12 |
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Steve Zissou | 2004-12-10 |
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Lost in Translation | Bob Harris | 2003-09-18 |
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Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles | Bill Murray The K. (archive footage) | 2003-08-16 |
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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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Speaking of Sex | Ezri Stovall | 2001-10-18 |
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Osmosis Jones | Frank Detorre | 2001-08-10 |
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The Royal Tenenbaums | Raleigh St. Clair | 2001-10-05 |
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Hamlet | Polonius | 2000-05-12 |
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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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Caddyshack: The 19th Hole | Carl Spackler (archive footage) | 1999-05-05 |
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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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Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special | Self | 1999-09-25 |
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With Friends Like These | Maurice Melnick | 1998-09-10 |
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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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The Man Who Knew Too Little | Wallace Ritchie | 1997-11-14 |
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Kingpin | Ernie McCracken | 1996-07-04 |
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Space Jam | Bill Murray | 1996-11-15 |
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Larger Than Life | Jack Corcoran | 1996-07-26 |
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R.E.M.: Rough Cut | Himself | 1995-10-24 |
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WWE Hall Of Fame 1995 | Self | 1995-06-25 |
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Ed Wood | Bunny Breckinridge | 1994-09-28 |
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Groundhog Day | Phil Connors | 1993-02-11 |
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Mad Dog and Glory | Frank Milo | 1993-03-05 |
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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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Ghostbusters II | Peter Venkman | 1989-06-16 |
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Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary | Self (archive footage) | 1989-09-24 |
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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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On the Scene with the Ghostbusters | 1984-12-04 | |
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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 Razor's Edge | Larry Darrell | 1984-10-19 |
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Fun & Games | 1982-01-01 | |
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The Rodney Dangerfield Show: It's Not Easy Bein' Me | Various | 1982-05-12 |
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Tootsie | Jeff Slater | 1982-12-17 |
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Twilight Theatre | Lefty in 'First Film' | 1982-02-13 |
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Stripes | John Winger | 1981-06-26 |
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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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Le Chaînon manquant | Dragon (voice) | 1980-05-21 |
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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 | 1980-07-06 |
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Mr. Mike's Mondo Video | Man on the Street | 1979-09-20 |
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Meatballs | Tripper Harrison | 1979-06-28 |
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Perchance to Dream | Honker | 1979-03-10 |
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Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood | Self / Nixon Voter (uncredited) | 1978-11-02 |
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The Dogs | 1978-10-02 | |
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Loose Shoes | Lefty | 1978-09-01 |
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The Things We Did Last Summer | Self | 1978-10-28 |
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The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash | Bill Murray the K. | 1978-03-22 |
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TVTV Looks at the Oscars | Self | 1976-03-30 |
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village | Nick Kessel (uncredited) | 1976-02-04 |
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Super Bowl | Himself | 1976-03-01 |
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Being Mortal | ||
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The King of Counterfeit | ||
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Say Hello to Our Good Friend Paul Shaffer | Self | |
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The Ploughmen | Cooper County Sheriff | |
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Bum's Rush | Bum | |
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Twilight Park | Mime Ringleader | |
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Epiphany | Oz Bell | |
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