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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Riff Raff | Lefty | 2025-02-27 |
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music | Self | 2025-01-27 |
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John Candy: I Like Me | Self | 2025-09-04 |
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The Phoenician Scheme | God | 2025-05-23 |
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Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special | Self (archive footage) | 2025-08-22 |
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The Friend | Walter | 2025-03-28 |
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SNL50: The Homecoming Concert | Self | 2025-02-14 |
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Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023 | Self | 2024-11-29 |
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire | Peter Venkman | 2024-03-20 |
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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 of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun | 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) | 2020-05-16 |
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Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters | Self (archive footage) | 2020-01-07 |
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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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Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine | Self | 2020-06-11 |
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Cola Wars | Self (archive footage) | 2019-08-18 |
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Le Fantastique Mr Murray | Self - Portrait Subject (archive footage) | 2019-10-20 |
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The Dead Don't Die | Chief Cliff Robertson | 2019-05-15 |
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Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk | Narrator | 2019-06-07 |
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Zombieland: Double Tap | Bill Murray | 2019-10-09 |
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For The Fun Of The Game | Self | 2018-10-17 |
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Always at The Carlyle | Self | 2018-05-11 |
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Isle of Dogs | Boss (voice) | 2018-03-23 |
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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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TVTV: Video Revolutionaries | Self | 2018-10-19 |
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The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man | Himself | 2018-05-02 |
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The Bill Murray Experience | Himself | 2017-12-19 |
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'85: The Greatest Team in Football History | Self | 2016-10-01 |
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Ghostbusters | Martin Heiss | 2016-07-14 |
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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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A Very Murray Christmas | Bill Murray | 2015-12-04 |
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À la découverte du tournage de Moonrise Kingdom | Self / Mr. Bishop | 2015-09-22 |
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Aloha | Carson Welch | 2015-05-29 |
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Rock the Kasbah | Richie Lanz | 2015-10-22 |
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead | Self - Actor | 2015-01-25 |
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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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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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Moonrise Kingdom | Mr. Bishop | 2012-05-16 |
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Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
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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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Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 | Self | 2010-06-26 |
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The Women of SNL | Richard Dawson / Various (archive footage) | 2010-11-01 |
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The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited' | Self - Businessman | 2010-10-12 |
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Ballhawks | Narrator | 2010-10-01 |
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Behind Jim Jarmusch | Self | 2010-09-01 |
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Get Low | Frank Quinn | 2010-07-30 |
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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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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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Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 | Self | 2007-12-07 |
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FCU: Fact Checkers Unit | Bill Murray | 2007-09-09 |
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The Darjeeling Limited | The Businessman | 2007-09-07 |
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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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The Lost City | The Writer | 2005-09-03 |
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Broken Flowers | Don Johnston | 2005-07-31 |
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Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal | Self | 2005-05-09 |
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Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live | Self | 2005-02-20 |
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On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' | Self / Steve Zissou | 2005-01-15 |
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Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd | Various Characters (archive footage) | 2005-09-06 |
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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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Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation' | Self | 2004-02-03 |
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This Old Cub | Himself | 2004-08-25 |
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Garfield: Bringing the Cat to Life | Self / Garfield (voice) | 2004-10-19 |
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Garfield | Garfield (voice) | 2004-06-10 |
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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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Osmosis Jones | Frank Detorre | 2001-08-10 |
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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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The Royal Tenenbaums | Raleigh St. Clair | 2001-10-05 |
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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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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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Ghostbusters 1999 | Self - Archive Footage | 1999-10-29 |
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Cradle Will Rock | Tommy Crickshaw | 1999-12-10 |
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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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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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Kingpin | Ernie McCracken | 1996-07-04 |
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Space Jam | Bill Murray | 1996-11-15 |
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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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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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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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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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Fun & Games | 1982-01-01 | |
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Twilight Theatre | Lefty in 'First Film' | 1982-02-13 |
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Steve Martin's Best Show Ever | Bytes | 1981-11-25 |
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Cut Flowers | 1981-03-07 | |
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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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Le Chaînon manquant | Dragon (voice) | 1980-05-21 |
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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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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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Loose Shoes | Lefty | 1978-09-01 |
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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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The Things We Did Last Summer | Self | 1978-10-28 |
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Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood | Self / Nixon Voter (uncredited) | 1978-11-02 |
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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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Twilight Park | Mime Ringleader | |
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Diamond | ||
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Say Hello to Our Good Friend Paul Shaffer | Self | |
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The King of Counterfeit | ||
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Epiphany | Oz Bell | |
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Bum's Rush | Bum | |
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Being Mortal | ||
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The Ploughmen | Cooper County Sheriff |
