Bill Murray Add to My Celebs Age 61 Birthday Sep. 21st, 1950 Born in Wilmette, Illinois, USA Height 6' 2

Bill Murray's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Later with Bob Costas Bill Murray Banzai (UK) Bill Murray… The Sweet Spot Bill Murray

Main Movie Roles 2012 - Ghostbusters III 2010 - Get Low 2010 - Passion Play 2009 - Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 - Zombieland 2009 - The Limits of Control 2008 - City of Ember 2008 - Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson 2008 - Get Smart 2007 - The Darjeeling Limited 2006 - Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties 2005 - Broken Flowers 2004 - The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou 2004 - Coffee and Cigarettes 2004 - Garfield 2003 - Lost in Translation 2001 - Osmosis Jones 2001 - The Royal Tenenbaums 2000 - Michael Jordan to the Max 2000 - Charlie's Angels 2000 - Hamlet 1998 - Rushmore 1998 - Wild Things 1997 - The Man Who Knew Too Little 1996 - Larger Than Life 1996 - Kingpin 1996 - Space Jam 1994 - Ed Wood 1993 - Groundhog Day 1993 - Mad Dog and Glory 1991 - What About Bob? 1990 - Quick Change 1989 - Ghostbusters II 1988 - She's Having a Baby 1988 - Scrooged 1986 - Little Shop of Horrors 1984 - The Razor's Edge 1984 - Ghostbusters 1982 - Tootsie 1981 - Stripes 1980 - Caddyshack 1980 - Where The Buffalo Roam 1980 - Loose Shoes 1979 - Meatballs 1976 - Next Stop, Greenwich Village

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

Bill is the fifth of nine children born to Edward and Lucille 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).


TRIVIA:

• Was considered for the role of Han Solo in _Star Wars (1977)_ (qv).
• Murray is a huge fan of Chicago pro sports teams, especially the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago Bears.
• Related through marriage to guitar player, lyricist and singer Chris Luxem.
• With _The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)_ (qv) and _Broken Flowers (2005)_ (qv), Murray did two films back-to-back in which he plays a long-childless man who discovers that someone who may be his grown son has been searching for him.
• Doesn't have a publicist.
• 'Sofia Coppola' (qv) wrote the lead role of Bob Harris in _Lost in Translation (2003)_ (qv), with Murray specifically in mind. She did not know the actor and even enlisted the help of her famous father, 'Francis Ford Coppola' (qv), to track down the sometimes quite elusive Murray. Once he finally read the script, though, he agreed to do it on the spot. Murray and 'Sofia Coppola' (qv) are now good friends.
• Father, with 'Jennifer Butler (I)' (qv), of sons Jackson (b. 1993), Cal (b. 1995) and Cooper (b. 1996) and Lincoln (b. 2001).
• Has become the unofficial patron saint of the forums of the Football Manager website, home to one of the biggest selling PC games of all time.

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