Bill Murray
21 September, 1950
| 1.88 m
Actor
Writer
Producer
Biography
Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. He is of Irish descent. Among his siblings are actors Brian Doyle-Murray, Joel Murray, and John Murray. He and most of his siblings worked as caddies, which paid his tuition to Loyola Academy, a Jesuit school. He played sports and did some acting while in that school, but in his words, mostly "screwed off." He enrolled at Regis College in Denver to study pre-med but dropped out after being arrested for marijuana possession. He then joined the National Lampoon Radio Hour with fellow members Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and John Belushi. However, while those three became the original members of Saturday Night Live (1975), he joined Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell (1975), which premiered that same year. After that show failed, he later got the opportunity to join Saturday Night Live (1975), for which he earned his first Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series. He later went on to star in comedy films, including Pulpety (1979), Golfiarze (1980), Szarże (1981), Tootsie (1982), Pogromcy duchów (1984), Pogromcy duchów II (1989), Wigilijny show (1988), Co jest z Bobem? (1991), and Dzień Świstaka (1993). He also co-directed Łatwy szmal (1990). Murray garnered additional critical acclaim later in his career, starring in Między słowami (2003), which earned him a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He also received Golden Globe nominations for his roles in Ghostbusters, Rushmore (1998), Weekend z królem (2012), Mów mi Vincent (2014), and the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014), for which he later won his second Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie.
Movies
A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.
A fading movie star falls for a lonely young woman in Tokyo.
Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.
After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther Bagheera and free-spirited bear Baloo.
An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.
With a plan to exact revenge on a legendary shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.
A teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta.
An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from German thieves and return them to their owners.
An exclusive golf course has to deal with a flatulent new member and a destructive dancing gopher.
A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door.
As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames in s... Read all
A star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.
The focus is on the sleepy small town of Centerville where the dead become undead.
Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.
A successful psychotherapist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients, an obsessive-compulsive neurotic, tracks him down during his family vacation.
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker.
A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.
A young mother reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York.