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Bill Murray
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Born: Sep 21, 1950
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Another "Saturday Night Live" alumnus who graduated to the big screen. He broke into show business, along with older brother Brian Doyle-Murray, as a member of Chicago's "Second City" comedy troupe and landed a spot on "SNL" in 1977. Murray made a sort-of screen debut providing one of the voices forShame of the Jungle a 1975 animated spoof of Tarzan films, but got his big break as the sly summer camp counselor in the Canadian-made Meatballs (1979), directed by Ivan Reitman, with whom he's collaborated several times since.
Murray and Reitman made the most of that smart aleck characterization in the country-club farce Caddyshack (1980) and the service comedy Stripes (1981, teamed with writer-performer Harold Ramis), then struck box office gold with Ghostbusters (1984, in which Murray and Ramis were joined by Dan Aykroyd). From the start, Murray was also intrigued by other kinds of film projects, however. He played fabled "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson in Where the Buffalo Roam (1980), reportedly ad-libbed his supporting role opposite Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (1982), and used his box office clout to star in (and cowrite) a serious, and ambitious, remake of W. Somerset Maugham's story of a man's quest for inner peace, The Razor's Edge (1984).
Murray contributed a hilarious cameo as the pain-addicted dental patient in Little Shop of Horrors (1986), starred in a too mean-spirited Scrooged (1988), and sailed through Ghostbusters II (1989) before taking his first turn behin...[MORE]
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Bill Murray Nude and Sexy
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