William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor. He is famous for being one of the first Not Ready For Prime Time Actors- alongside Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, and Laraine Newman- on the long-running late-night show Saturday Night Live. He is best known for his comedic roles in movies such as Meatballs, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, and Groundhog Day. His numerous other notable film credentials include Stripes, Scrooged, What About Bob?, Space Jam, Rushmore, Osmosis Jones, Lost in Translation, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Little Shop of Horrors, and Moonrise Kingdom.
Murray was a two-time MC for the Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2007 and 2010; at one point he performed "Gloria" with festival founder Eric Clapton.
Voiceover roles[]
Garfield: The Movie[]
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties[]
- Garfield
Trivia[]
- Murray played the live version of Peter Venkman in the Ghostbusters movies while Lorenzo Music, the cartoon show voice of Garfield, did the voice of Peter Venkman in the animated show The Real Ghostbusters for the first two seasons.
- Murray has claimed that he took part in the first Garfield film under the false impression that the screenplay was co-written by Joel Coen (of the Coen Brothers fame), when it was actually Joel Cohen.[1]
- This has been disputed by fellow co-writer Alec Sokolow, who said that Murray was familiar with Cohen by the time they met, and that Murray's claim "kind of defends him against the criticism of making such an overtly commercial film."[2][3]
- In the film Zombieland, when asked if he had any regrets, Murray answered "Garfield, maybe". In the 2019 sequel Zombieland: Double Tap, he appears at the premiere for the fictional Garfield 3: Flabby Tabby and fights off a horde of zombies. He quotes Godfather 3 as his inspiration for Garfield 3.
References[]
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1vhjag/bill_murray_here_ok_ill_talk_ill_talk/cesbw0o/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1vhjag/bill_murray_here_ok_ill_talk_ill_talk/cesy4xm/?context=3
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ikmh4/iama_alec_sokolow_ama/cb5euwv/?context=3
External links[]
- Bill Murray at Wikipedia