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Years active
  
1969–2009

Height
  
1.88 m

Role
  
Actor

Name
  
Harold Ramis

Home town
  

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Full Name
  
Harold Allen Ramis

Born
  
November 21, 1944 (
1944-11-21
)
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Cause of death
  
Complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis

Alma mater
  
Occupation
  
Actor, director, writer, comedian

Died
  
February 24, 2014, Glencoe, Illinois, United States

Spouse
  
Erica Mann (m. 1989–2014), Anne Ramis (m. 1967–1984)

Children
  
Violet Ramis, Daniel Hayes Ramis, Julian Arthur Ramis

Movies
  
Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Caddyshack, Stripes, National Lampoon's Animal H

Similar People
  
Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Ivan Reitman, Rick Moranis

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Harold Allen Ramis (November 21, 1944 – February 24, 2014) was an American actor, director, writer, and comedian. His best-known film acting roles were as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989) and Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981); he also co-wrote those films. As a director, his films include the comedies Caddyshack (1980), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Groundhog Day (1993), and Analyze This (1999). Ramis was the original head writer of the television series SCTV, on which he also performed, as well as a co-writer of Groundhog Day and National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). His final film that he wrote, produced, directed and acted in was Year One (2009).

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Ramis' films influenced subsequent generations of comedians and comedy writers. Filmmakers including Jay Roach, Jake Kasdan, Adam Sandler, and Peter and Bobby Farrelly have cited his films as among their favorites. Along with Danny Rubin, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for Groundhog Day.

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Early life

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Ramis was born on November 21, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Ruth (née Cokee) and Nathan Ramis, who owned the Ace Food & Liquor Mart on the city's far North Side. Ramis had a Jewish upbringing. In his adult life, he did not practice any religion. He graduated from Stephen K. Hayt Elementary School in June 1958 and Nicholas Senn High School in 1962, both Chicago public schools, and in 1966 from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was a member of the Alpha Xi chapter of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.

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Afterward, Ramis worked in a mental institution in St. Louis for seven months. He later said of his time working there that it

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...prepared me well for when I went out to Hollywood to work with actors. People laugh when I say that, but it was actually very good training. And not just with actors; it was good training for just living in the world. It's knowing how to deal with people who might be reacting in a way that's connected to anxiety or grief or fear or rage. As a director, you're dealing with that constantly with actors. But if I were a businessman, I'd probably be applying those same principles to that line of work.

Early years

Ramis began writing parodic plays in college, saying years later, "In my heart, I felt I was a combination of Groucho and Harpo Marx, of Groucho using his wit as a weapon against the upper classes, and of Harpo's antic charm and the fact that he was oddly sexy—he grabs women, pulls their skirts off, and gets away with it". He avoided the Vietnam War military draft by taking methamphetamine to fail his draft physical.

Following his work in St. Louis, Ramis returned to Chicago, where by 1968, he was a substitute teacher at schools serving the inner-city Robert Taylor Homes. He also became associated with the guerrilla television collective TVTV, headed by his college friend Michael Shamberg, and wrote freelance for the Chicago Daily News. "Michael Shamberg, right out of college, had started freelancing for newspapers and got on as a stringer for a local paper, and I thought, 'Well, if Michael can do that, I can do that.' I wrote a spec piece and submitted it to the Chicago Daily News, the Arts & Leisure section, and they started giving me assignments [for] entertainment features." Additionally, Ramis had begun studying and performing with Chicago's Second City improvisational comedy troupe.

Ramis' newspaper writing led to his becoming joke editor at Playboy magazine. "I called ... just cold and said I had written several pieces freelance and did they have any openings. And they happened to have their entry-level job, party jokes editor, open. He liked my stuff and he gave me a stack of jokes that readers had sent in and asked me to rewrite them. I had been in Second City in the workshops already and Michael Shamberg and I had written comedy shows in college". Ramis was eventually promoted to associate editor.

National Lampoon, SCTV, and The Top

After leaving Second City for a time and returning in 1972, having been replaced in the main cast by John Belushi, Ramis worked his way back as Belushi's deadpan foil. In 1974, Belushi brought Ramis and other Second City performers, including Ramis' frequent future collaborator Bill Murray, to New York City to work on The National Lampoon Radio Hour.

During this time, Ramis, Belushi, Murray, Joe Flaherty, Christopher Guest, and Gilda Radner starred in the revue The National Lampoon Show, the successor to National Lampoon's Lemmings. Later, Ramis became a performer on, and head writer of, the late-night sketch-comedy television series SCTV during its first three years (1976–1979). He was soon offered work as a writer at Saturday Night Live but chose to continue with SCTV. Characterizations by Ramis on SCTV include corrupt Dialing for Dollars host/SCTV station manager Maurice "Moe" Green, amiable cop Officer Friendly, exercise guru Swami Bananananda, board chairman Allan "Crazy Legs" Hirschman and home dentist Mort Finkel. His celebrity impressions on SCTV included Kenneth Clark and Leonard Nimoy.

In 1984, Ramis executive produced a music/comedy/variety television show called The Top. The Producer was Paul Flattery and the Director was David Jove. Ramis got involved after the mysterious death of his friend Peter Ivers who had hosted Jove's underground show "New Wave Theater." He called Jove and offered to help. Flattery and Jove pitched him the idea for "The Top," and Ramis was instrumental in getting it on the air.

The show was a mixture of live music, videos, and humor.

Performers on the show included Cyndi Lauper, who performed "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" and "True Colors"; the Hollies, who performed "Stop in the Name of Love"; and the Romantics, who performed their two hits at the time, "Talking in Your Sleep" and "What I Like About You."

Guest stars included Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. Ramis got Chevy Chase to host but, because Ghostbusters filming ran late, he did not make it to the taping. Chase came out dressed as a "punk" of the time and somehow got into a physical altercation with an audience member (also a punk) during the opening monologue. He immediately left the taping. Flattery and Jove carried on with the show.

Ramis then got Andy Kaufman to fill in for Chase and recorded the host segments at a separate, later, session. It was to be the last professional appearance by Andy Kaufman before his death.

The Top aired on Friday, January 27, 1984, at 7 pm. It scored a 7.7% rating and a 14% share. This represented a 28% rating increase and a 27% share increase over KTLA's regularly scheduled Happy Days/Laverne and Shirley.

Film career

Ramis left SCTV to pursue a film career and wrote a script with National Lampoon magazine's Douglas Kenney which would eventually become National Lampoon's Animal House. They were later joined by a third collaborator, Chris Miller. The 1978 film followed the struggle between a rowdy college fraternity house and the college dean. The film's humor was raunchy for its time. Animal House "broke all box-office records for comedies" and earned $141 million.

Ramis next co-wrote the comedy Meatballs, starring Bill Murray. The movie was a commercial success and became the first of six film collaborations between Murray and Ramis. His third film and his directorial debut was Caddyshack, which he wrote with Kenney and Brian Doyle-Murray. It starred Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, and Bill Murray. Like Ramis's previous two films, Caddyshack was a commercial success.

In 1982, Ramis was attached to direct the film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. The film was to star John Belushi and Richard Pryor, but the project was aborted. In 1984, Ramis collaborated with Dan Aykroyd on the screenplay for Ghostbusters, which became one of the biggest comedy hits of all time, in which he also starred as Dr. Egon Spengler, a role he reprised for the 1989 sequel, Ghostbusters II (which he also co-wrote with Aykroyd). His later film Groundhog Day has been called his "masterpiece".

His films have been noted for attacking "the smugness of institutional life ... with an impish good [will] that is unmistakably American". They are also noted for "Ramis's signature tongue-in-cheek pep talks". Sloppiness and improv were also important aspects of his work. Ramis frequently depicted the qualities of "anger, curiosity, laziness, and woolly idealism" in "a hyper-articulate voice".

Ramis also occasionally acted in supporting roles in acclaimed films that he did not write or direct such as James L. Brooks's Academy Award-winning As Good as It Gets (1997) and Judd Apatow's hit comedy Knocked Up (2007).

In 2004, Ramis turned down the opportunity to direct the Bernie Mac-Ashton Kutcher film Guess Who, then under the working title "The Dinner Party", because he considered it poorly written. That same year, he began filming the low-budget The Ice Harvest, "his first attempt to make a comic film noir". Ramis spent six weeks trying to get the film greenlit because he had difficulty reaching an agreement about stars John Cusack's and Billy Bob Thornton's salaries. The film received mixed reviews. In 2004, Ramis's typical directing fee was $5 million.

In an interview in the documentary American Storytellers, Ramis said he hoped to make a film about Emma Goldman (even pitching Disney with the idea of having Bette Midler star) but that none of the movie studios were interested and that it would have been difficult to raise the funding.

Ramis said in 2009 he planned to make a third Ghostbusters film for release either in mid-2011 or for Christmas 2012. The film was eventually made and released in 2016. In this film a bronze bust can be seen of Ramis when Erin Gilbert leaves her office at Columbia University.

Personal life

Ramis was married twice and fathered three children. On July 2, 1967, he married San Francisco artist Anne Plotkin, with whom he had a daughter, Violet Ramis Stiel. Actor and Ghostbusters co-star Bill Murray is Violet's godfather. Ramis and Plotkin separated in 1984 and later divorced. In 1989, Ramis married Erica Mann, daughter of director Daniel Mann and actress Mary Kathleen Williams. Together they had two sons, Julian Arthur and Daniel Hayes. Although Ramis maintained Humanist beliefs, Erica's Buddhist upbringing was a huge influence on his philosophies for the rest of his life, and he became friends with the Dalai Lama.

Ramis was a Chicago Cubs fan and attended games every year to conduct the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field. His pastimes included fencing, ritual drumming, acoustic guitar, and making hats from felted fleece; additionally, he taught himself skiing by watching skiers on television.

Illness and death

In May 2010, Ramis contracted an infection that resulted in complications from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis and lost the ability to walk. After relearning to walk he suffered a relapse of the disease in late 2011.

He died of complications of the disease on February 24, 2014 at his home on Chicago's North Shore, at age 69. A private funeral was held for him two days later with family, friends, and several collaborators in attendance including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, David Pasquesi, Andrew Alexander, and the widows of John Belushi and Bernard Sahlins. He is buried at Shalom Memorial Park in Arlington Heights.

Upon Ramis' death, President Barack Obama released a statement, saying: "when we watched his movies—from Animal House and Caddyshack to Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day—we didn't just laugh until it hurt. We questioned authority. We identified with the outsider. We rooted for the underdog. And through it all, we never lost our faith in happy endings." He ended his statement by saying he hoped Ramis "received total consciousness", in reference to a line from Caddyshack.

Ramis and longtime collaborator Bill Murray had a falling out during the filming of Groundhog Day. Shortly before Ramis' death Murray visited him, and the two spoke for the first time in 21 years. Murray gave tribute to Ramis at the 86th Academy Awards.

Ramis was paid tribute by Stephen Colbert on an episode of his show The Colbert Report. Colbert said that "as a young, bookish man with glasses looking for a role model, I might have picked Harold Ramis". He ended the show by thanking Ramis.

Awards and honors

In 2004, Ramis was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. In 2005, he received the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award. In 2010, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Chicago Improv Festival. In 2015, the Writers Guild of America posthumously honored him with their lifetime achievement award, the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.

In 2016, two years after his death, The Second City founded the Harold Ramis Film School, the first film school to focus solely on film comedy, in his honor.

The 2016 film Ghostbusters, a reboot of the series Ramis co-created and starred in, was posthumously dedicated to him. A bust of his head appears in the film.

Collaborations

Ramis frequently collaborated with Ivan Reitman. He co-wrote National Lampoon's Animal House, which Reitman produced, then co-wrote the Reitman-directed comedy Meatballs; he co-wrote and appeared in the Reitman-directed films Stripes, Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II. Ramis also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1986 comedy Back to School, which starred Rodney Dangerfield, who had appeared in Caddyshack.

Filmography

Writer
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Ghostbusters: Ecto Force (TV Series) (characters - 2018) (announced)
2022
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed (Video Game) (based on characters created by)
2021
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (based on "Ghostbusters" written by)
2018
Ghostbusters of Long Beach (Short) (characters)
2017
Ghostbusters: Station 6 (TV Series) (based on characters created by - 1 episode)
- Pilot (2017) - (based on characters created by)
2016
Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (based on the 1984 film "Ghostbusters" written by)
2011
Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime (Video Game) (characters and universe)
2011
The Real Ghostbusters (Short) (creator)
2010
The Ghostbusters of New Hampshire: Spilled Milk (Short) (based on characters created by)
2009
Year One (screenplay) / (story)
2009
Ghostbusters (Video Game) (characters)
2004
Extreme Ghostbusters: The Ultimate Invasion (Video Game) (characters)
2004
Stork Day (screenplay)
2002
Analyze That (written by)
2002
Extreme Ghostbusters: Code Ecto-1 (Video Game) (characters)
2000
Bedazzled (screenplay)
1999
Analyze This (screenplay)
1997
Extreme Ghostbusters (TV Series) (characters - 40 episodes)
- Witchy Woman (1997) - (characters)
- The Sphinx (1997) - (characters)
- Back in the Saddle: Part 2 (1997) - (characters)
- Back in the Saddle: Part 1 (1997) - (characters)
- Heart of Darkness (1997) - (characters)
- Rage (1997) - (characters)
- A Temporary Insanity (1997) - (characters)
- Mole People (1997) - (characters)
- Dog Days (1997) - (characters)
- Ghost in the Machine (1997) - (characters)
- Glutton for Punishment (1997) - (characters)
- Till Death Do Us Start (1997) - (characters)
- Eyes of a Dragon (1997) - (characters)
- Fallout (1997) - (characters)
- Moby Ghost (1997) - (characters)
- In Your Dreams (1997) - (characters)
- Grundelesque (1997) - (characters)
- Slimer's Sacrifice (1997) - (characters)
- The Ghostmakers (1997) - (characters)
- The Luck of the Irish (1997) - (characters)
- Seeds of Destruction (1997) - (characters)
- Bird of Prey (1997) - (characters)
- Ghost Apocalyptic Future (1997) - (characters)
- Sonic Youth (1997) - (characters)
- Dry Spell (1997) - (characters)
- The Jersey Devil (1997) - (characters)
- Grease (1997) - (characters)
- Be Careful What You Wish For (1997) - (characters)
- The Pied Piper of Manhattan (1997) - (characters)
- The Crawler (1997) - (characters)
- The Unseen (1997) - (characters)
- Killjoys (1997) - (characters)
- Home Is Where the Horror Is (1997) - (characters)
- The Infernal Machine (1997) - (characters)
- Casting the Runes (1997) - (characters)
- Deadliners (1997) - (characters)
- Fear Itself (1997) - (characters)
- True Face of a Monster (1997) - (characters)
- Darkness at Noon: Part 2 (1997) - (characters)
- Darkness at Noon: Part 1 (1997) - (characters)
1993
Groundhog Day (screenplay by)
1986
The Real Ghostbusters (TV Series) (characters - 140 episodes)
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Street (1991) - (characters)
- Attack of the B-Movie Monsters (1991) - (characters)
- Not Now, Slimer! (1991) - (characters)
- The Treasure of Sierra Tamale (1991) - (characters)
- The Magnificent Five (1990) - (characters)
- Busters in Toyland (1990) - (characters)
- Very Beast Friends (1990) - (characters)
- Stay Tooned (1990) - (characters)
- Guess What's Coming to Dinner (1990) - (characters)
- Afterlife in the Fast Lane (1990) - (characters)
- Deja Boo (1990) - (characters)
- The Slob (1990) - (characters)
- Russian About (1990) - (characters)
- My Left Fang (1990) - (characters)
- Spacebusters (1990) - (characters)
- Mean Green Teen Machine (1990) - (characters)
- The Haunting of Heck House (1990) - (characters)
- Ghostworld (1990) - (characters)
- You Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks (1990) - (characters)
- Janine, You've Changed (1990) - (characters)
- Slimer Streak (1989) - (characters)
- Revenge of the Ghostmaster (1989) - (characters)
- Loose Screws (1989) - (characters)
- The Ransom of Greenspud (1989) - (characters)
- It's About Time (1989) - (characters)
- Til Death Do Us Part (1989) - (characters)
- Slimer's Curse (1989) - (characters)
- Surely You Joust (1989) - (characters)
- Kitty-Cornered (1989) - (characters)
- Transcendental Tourists (1989) - (characters)
- Trading Faces (1989) - (characters)
- Venk-Man! (1989) - (characters)
- The Halloween Door (1989) - (characters)
- The Ghostbusters Live! From Al Capone's Tomb! (1989) - (characters)
- Jailbusters (1989) - (characters)
- Future Tense (1989) - (characters)
- Partners in Slime (1989) - (characters)
- If I Were a Witch Man (1989) - (characters)
- Elementary My Dear Winston (1989) - (characters)
- Three Men and an Egon (1989) - (characters)
- Something's Going Around (1989) - (characters)
- The Brooklyn Triangle (1988) - (characters)
- Follow That Hearse (1988) - (characters)
- Short Stuff (1988) - (characters)
- Robo-Buster (1988) - (characters)
- Standing Room Only (1988) - (characters)
- Poultrygeist (1988) - (characters)
- Flip Side (1988) - (characters)
- The Joke's on Ray (1988) - (characters)
- Camping It Up (1987) - (characters)
- Transylvanian Homesick Blues (1987) - (characters)
- Hanging by a Thread (1987) - (characters)
- Station Identification (1987) - (characters)
- Egon on the Rampage (1987) - (characters)
- Lights! Camera! Haunting! (1987) - (characters)
- The Copycat (1987) - (characters)
- The Devil in the Deep (1987) - (characters)
- Don't Forget the Motor City (1987) - (characters)
- Deadcon I (1987) - (characters)
- Masquerade (1987) - (characters)
- Hard Knight's Day (1987) - (characters)
- The Old College Spirit (1987) - (characters)
- Play Them Ragtime Boos (1987) - (characters)
- Beneath These Streets (1987) - (characters)
- Last Train to Oblivion (1987) - (characters)
- I Am the City (1987) - (characters)
- Big Trouble with Little Slimer (1987) - (characters)
- A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn (1987) - (characters)
- The Devil to Pay (1987) - (characters)
- Apocalypse - What, NOW? (1987) - (characters)
- Ain't NASA-sarily So (1987) - (characters)
- The Scaring of the Green (1987) - (characters)
- The Grundel (1987) - (characters)
- Bustman's Holiday (1987) - (characters)
- Cry Uncle (1987) - (characters)
- Ghost Fight at the O.K. Corral (1987) - (characters)
- Sea Fright (1987) - (characters)
- The Spirit of Aunt Lois (1987) - (characters)
- Loathe Thy Neighbor (1987) - (characters)
- Knock, Knock (1987) - (characters)
- Moaning Stones (1987) - (characters)
- The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic (1987) - (characters)
- The Headless Motorcyclist (1987) - (characters)
- The Revenge of Murray the Mantis (1987) - (characters)
- Halloween II 1/2 (1987) - (characters)
- Boo-Dunit (1987) - (characters)
- Drool, the Dog-Faced Goblin (1987) - (characters)
- Banshee Bake a Cherry Pie? (1987) - (characters)
- The Collect Call of Cthulhu (1987) - (characters)
- A Fright at the Opera (1987) - (characters)
- Sticky Business (1987) - (characters)
- The Ghostbusters in Paris (1987) - (characters)
- Ghost Busted (1987) - (characters)
- The Hole in the Wall Gang (1987) - (characters)
- Venkman's Ghost Repellers (1987) - (characters)
- Chicken, He Clucked (1987) - (characters)
- The Two Faces of Slimer (1987) - (characters)
- Lost and Foundry (1987) - (characters)
- Victor the Happy Ghost (1987) - (characters)
- You Can't Take It with You (1987) - (characters)
- Doctor, Doctor (1987) - (characters)
- The Man Who Never Reached Home (1987) - (characters)
- Once Upon a Slime (1987) - (characters)
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost? (1987) - (characters)
- Cold Cash and Hot Water (1987) - (characters)
- The Long, Long, Long, etc. Goodbye (1987) - (characters)
- The Bird of Kildarby (1987) - (characters)
- No One Comes to Lupusville (1987) - (characters)
- The Bogeyman Is Back (1987) - (characters)
- Egon's Dragon (1987) - (characters)
- Ghostbuster of the Year (1987) - (characters)
- The Cabinet of Calamari (1987) - (characters)
- Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster (1987) - (characters)
- Egon's Ghost (1987) - (characters)
- Slimer, Is That You? (1987) - (characters)
- Dairy Farm (1987) - (characters)
- Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional? (1987) - (characters)
- Rollerghoster (1987) - (characters)
- Night Game (1987) - (characters)
- Buster the Ghost (1987) - (characters)
- It's a Jungle Out There (1987) - (characters)
- They Call Me Mister Slimer (1987) - (characters)
- Captain Steel Saves the Day (1987) - (characters)
- Ragnarok and Roll (1987) - (characters)
- Adventures in Slime and Space (1987) - (characters)
- Janine's Day Off (1987) - (characters)
- Baby Spookums (1987) - (characters)
- Xmas Marks the Spot (1986) - (characters)
- Janine's Genie (1986) - (characters)
- Citizen Ghost (1986) - (characters)
- Take Two (1986) - (characters)
- Look Homeward, Ray (1986) - (characters)
- When Halloween Was Forever (1986) - (characters)
- Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream (1986) - (characters)
- The Boogieman Cometh (1986) - (characters)
- Troll Bridge (1986) - (characters)
- Slimer, Come Home (1986) - (characters)
- Mrs. Roger's Neighborhood (1986) - (characters)
- Killerwatt (1986) - (characters)
- Ghosts R Us (1986) - (characters)
1991
Rover Dangerfield (story developed by)
1990
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (TV Movie) (character: Slimer)
1989
Ghostbusters II (characters) / (written by)
1989
Ghostbusters II (Video Game) (characters)
1988
The Best of SCTV (TV Special)
1988
Caddyshack II (characters) / (written by)
1986
Meatballs III: Summer Job (characters)
1986
Ghostbusters (Video Game) (characters)
1986
Armed and Dangerous (screenplay) / (story)
1986
Club Paradise (screenplay)
1986
Back to School (screenplay by)
1984
Ghostbusters (written by)
1982
The Rodney Dangerfield Show: It's Not Easy Bein' Me (TV Special) (head writer)
-
SCTV Network (TV Series) (additional material - 4 episodes, 1981 - 1982) (additional material by - 1 episode, 1981)
- Midnight Video Special (1982) - (additional material)
- Teacher's Pet (1982) - (additional material)
- The Great White North (1981) - (additional material)
- Lunchtime Street Beef (1981) - (additional material by)
- One on the Town (1981) - (additional material)
1981
Stripes (written by)
1980
Caddyshack (written by)
1979
Meatballs (written by)
-
Delta House (TV Series) (creator - 13 episodes, 1979) (written by - 1 episode, 1979)
- The Matriculation of Kent Dorfman (1979) - (creator)
- Hoover and the Bomb (1979) - (creator)
- Campus Fair (1979) - (creator)
- The Blotto Who Came to Dinner (1979) - (creator)
- The Fall of Dean Wormer (1979) - (creator)
- Big Man on Campus (1979) - (creator)
- The Deformity (1979) - (creator)
- The Draft (1979) - (creator)
- The Lady in Weighting (1979) - (creator)
- The Guns of October (1979) - (creator)
- Parent's Day (1979) - (creator)
- The Shortest Yard (1979) - (creator)
- The Legacy (1979) - (creator) / (written by)
-
SCTV (TV Series) (head writer - 20 episodes, 1977) (supervising writer - 16 episodes, 1978) (writer - 15 episodes, 1978 - 1979) (written by - 12 episodes, 1976 - 1979) (series written by - 1 episode, 1979) (written by: head writer - 1 episode, 1977)
- The Best of Season 2: Part 2 (1979) - (writer)
- The Best of Season 2: Part 1 (1979) - (writer)
- Pipeline (1979) - (written by)
- SCTV Disco (1979) - (writer)
- On the Waterfront Again (1979) - (writer)
- Fantasy Island (1979) - (series written by)
- Rock Concert (1979) - (writer)
- Death Takes No Holiday (1978) - (supervising writer) / (writer)
- Fighting Air Dogs (1978) - (supervising writer) / (writer)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1978) - (supervising writer - uncredited) / (written by)
- Bad Acting in Hollywood (1978) - (supervising writer) / (writer)
- Whispers of the Wolf/The Occult (1978) - (supervising writer) / (writer)
- SCTV 30th Anniversary Show (1978) - (supervising writer) / (writer)
- Edith Prickley, Station Manager (1978) - (supervising writer) / (written by)
- Undersea World (1978) - (supervising writer) / (writer)
- Mirthmakers/Happy Endings (1978) - (supervising writer) / (writer)
- Farm Film Report/Arabs (1978) - (supervising writer) / (writer)
- Municipal Election (1978) - (supervising writer) / (writer)
- Writer's Strike (1978) - (supervising writer) / (writer)
- SCTV Solid Gold Telethon (1978) - (supervising writer) / (written by)
- Kidnapping of Moe Green (1978) - (supervising writer) / (written by)
- Bob Hope Desert Classic (1978) - (supervising writer) / (written by)
- Season 2 Premiere (1978) - (supervising writer) / (written by)
- Lust for Paint (1977) - (head writer)
- The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes (1977) - (head writer)
- Officer Friendly (1977) - (head writer)
- The Grapes of Mud (1977) - (head writer)
- World at War (1977) - (head writer)
- The Sammy Maudlin Show (1977) - (head writer)
- Dr. Tongue's House of Wax/SCTV Boogie (1977) - (head writer)
- The $129,000 Question (1977) - (head writer)
- Madame Blitzman (1977) - (head writer)
- Galaxy 66 (1977) - (head writer)
- Goodbye America (1977) - (head writer)
- Leave It to Beaver (1977) - (head writer)
- The Hefty Neil Story (1977) - (head writer)
- Ben Hur (1977) - (head writer)
- The Taxidermist (1977) - (head writer)
- Broads Behind Bars (1977) - (written by: head writer)
- Therese et Joe (1977) - (head writer)
- Philosophy Street (1977) - (head writer)
- Shock Theatre (1977) - (head writer)
- Dialing for Dollars (1977) - (head writer)
- Memoirs of Anton Chekhov (1977) - (written by)
- Match Unto My Feet (1977) - (head writer)
- Crosswords (1976) - (written by)
- Ethnic Humour (1976) - (written by)
- Murder at SCTV (1976) - (written by)
- Backstage (1976) - (written by)
1978
National Lampoon's Animal House (written by)
1977
The TVTV Show (TV Movie)
1976
TVTV Looks at the Academy Awards (TV Special documentary) (uncredited)
1976
Super Bowl (TV Movie documentary)
1973
National Lampoon Television Show: Lemmings Dead in Concert (Video) (writer - uncredited)
Actor
2009
Year One as
Adam
2009
Ghostbusters (Video Game) as
Dr. Egon Spengler (voice)
2007
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story as
L'Chaim
2007
Knocked Up as
Ben's Dad
2006
The Last Kiss as
Professor Bowler
2002
I'm with Lucy as
Jack
2002
Orange County as
Don Durkett
2000
High Fidelity as
Rob's Dad (scenes deleted)
1997
As Good as It Gets as
Dr. Bettes
1994
Love Affair as
Sheldon Blumenthal
1994
Airheads as
Chris Moore
1993
Groundhog Day as
Neurologist
1990
The Earth Day Special (TV Special) as
Elon Spengler
1989
Ghostbusters II as
Dr. Egon Spengler
1988
Stealing Home as
Alan Appleby
1987
Baby Boom as
Steven Buchner
1984
Ray Parker Jr.: Ghostbusters (Music Video) as
Dr. Egon Spengler (uncredited)
1984
Ghostbusters as
Dr. Egon Spengler
1983
National Lampoon's Vacation as
Car salesman (voice, uncredited)
1983
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone as
Voice on Intercom (voice, uncredited)
1982
SCTV Network (TV Series) as
Allan 'Crazy Legs' Herschman
- Indecent Exposure (1982) - Allan 'Crazy Legs' Herschman
1981
Heavy Metal as
Zeke (segment "So Beautiful and So Dangerous") (voice)
1981
Stripes as
Russell
1976
SCTV (TV Series) as
Various / Moe Green
- Kidnapping of Moe Green (1978) - Moe Green
- Season 2 Premiere (1978) - Moe Green
- Lust for Paint (1977) - Various
- The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes (1977) - Various
- Officer Friendly (1977) - Various
- The Grapes of Mud (1977) - Various
- World at War (1977) - Various
- The Sammy Maudlin Show (1977) - Various
- Dr. Tongue's House of Wax/SCTV Boogie (1977) - Various
- The $129,000 Question (1977) - Various
- Madame Blitzman (1977) - Various
- Galaxy 66 (1977) - Various
- Goodbye America (1977) - Various
- Leave It to Beaver (1977) - Various
- The Hefty Neil Story (1977) - Various
- Ben Hur (1977) - Various
- The Taxidermist (1977) - Various
- Broads Behind Bars (1977) - Various
- Therese et Joe (1977) - Various
- Philosophy Street (1977) - Various
- Shock Theatre (1977) - Various
- Dialing for Dollars (1977) - Various
- Memoirs of Anton Chekhov (1977) - Various
- Match Unto My Feet (1977) - Various
- Crosswords (1976) - Various
- Ethnic Humour (1976) - Various
- Murder at SCTV (1976) - Various
- Backstage (1976) - Various
1977
The TVTV Show (TV Movie) as
Various
Producer
2012
Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance (Documentary) (executive producer)
2009
Year One (co-producer)
2009
My Suicide (executive producer)
2006
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (executive producer)
2002
The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (executive producer)
2000
The Inspector General (TV Movie) (producer)
2000
Bedazzled (producer)
1996
Multiplicity (producer)
1993
Groundhog Day (producer - produced by)
1987
Will Rogers: Look Back in Laughter (TV Movie) (executive producer)
1986
Armed and Dangerous (executive producer - uncredited)
1986
Back to School (executive producer)
1984
The Top (TV Movie) (executive producer)
1982
The Rodney Dangerfield Show: It's Not Easy Bein' Me (TV Special) (producer)
1976
SCTV (TV Series) (associate producer - 20 episodes)
- Lust for Paint (1977) - (associate producer)
- The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes (1977) - (associate producer)
- The $129,000 Question (1977) - (associate producer)
- Madame Blitzman (1977) - (associate producer)
- Galaxy 66 (1977) - (associate producer)
- Goodbye America (1977) - (associate producer)
- Leave It to Beaver (1977) - (associate producer)
- Ben Hur (1977) - (associate producer)
- The Taxidermist (1977) - (associate producer)
- Broads Behind Bars (1977) - (associate producer)
- Therese et Joe (1977) - (associate producer)
- Philosophy Street (1977) - (associate producer)
- Shock Theatre (1977) - (associate producer)
- Dialing for Dollars (1977) - (associate producer)
- Memoirs of Anton Chekhov (1977) - (associate producer)
- Match Unto My Feet (1977) - (associate producer)
- Crosswords (1976) - (associate producer)
- Ethnic Humour (1976) - (associate producer)
- Murder at SCTV (1976) - (associate producer)
- Backstage (1976) - (associate producer)
1976
TVTV Looks at the Academy Awards (TV Special documentary) (production)
Director
2006
The Office (TV Series) (4 episodes)
- The Delivery: Part 2 (2010)
- Beach Games (2007)
- Safety Training (2007)
- A Benihana Christmas (2006)
2009
Year One
2007
Atlanta (TV Movie)
2006
The Ice Harvest: Alternate Endings (Video short)
2005
The Ice Harvest
2002
Analyze That
2000
Bedazzled
1999
Analyze This
1996
Multiplicity
1995
Stuart Saves His Family
1993
Groundhog Day
1986
Club Paradise
1983
National Lampoon's Vacation
1980
Caddyshack
Soundtrack
2000
Bedazzled (writer: "Dolphin Song")
1993
Groundhog Day (writer: "Weatherman")
1981
Stripes (performer: "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" - uncredited)
Thanks
2017
Ghostbusters: Station 6 (TV Series) (dedicatee - 1 episode)
- Pilot (2017) - (dedicatee: We hope you're proud Dr. Spengler)
2016
Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (for)
2016
Sasha, the Princess of Darkness (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
- The Ghostbusters 3 You Forgot About (2016) - (in memory of)
2014
Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
- Blu-ray: El Sentido de la Vida (2014) - (in memory of)
2014
Jambareeqi Reviews (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
- The Legend of the Sky Kingdom (2014) - (in memory of)
2013
Ass Backwards (special thanks)
2009
Biography: Bill Murray (TV Movie) (archival clips & photos)
2009
Caddyshack: The Inside Story (TV Movie documentary) (special thanks)
2008
Dakota Skye (special thanks)
2007
Eagle vs Shark (special thanks)
2006
American Pets (Video short) (special thanks)
2002
Groundhog Day: The Weight of Time (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
1998
The Yearbook: An 'Animal House' Reunion (Video documentary) (special thanks)
1994
The Mask (thanks)
Self
-
Too Hot to Handle: Remembering Ghostbusters II (Documentary) (post-production) as
Self
2019
Film Önü / Arkasi (TV Series) as
Self - Subject
- Groundhog Day (2019) - Self - Subject
2019
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (Documentary) as
Self
2017
We Are One (Documentary) as
Self
2016
Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon (Documentary) as
Self
2013
Directing Flint: Daniel Mann (Video short) as
Self
2009
Biography (TV Series documentary) as
Self / Self - Friend
- Rodney Dangerfield (2012) - Self
- John Belushi (2010) - Self - Friend
- Billy Crystal (2009) - Self
- Chevy Chase (2009) - Self - Friend
2012
Metaphysical Milkshake (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
2011
Inside Story: National Lampoon's Vacation (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2010
Invitation to World Literature (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Candide (2010) - Self
2009
Caddyshack: The Inside Story (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2009
Whatever Happened To? (TV Series) as
Self
- Smarty Pants (2009) - Self
2009
Días de cine (TV Series) as
Self - Interviewee
- Episode dated 27 August 2009 (2009) - Self - Interviewee
2009
Up Close with Carrie Keagan (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 17 June 2009 (2009) - Self - Guest
2009
Slimer Mode (Video documentary) as
Self - 'Egon Spangler' / Co-writer
2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 12 June 2009 (2009) - Self - Guest
2008
2007 Vail Film Festival (Short) as
Self
2008
Animal House: The Inside Story (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2008
AFI's 10 Top 10: America's 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres (TV Special) as
Self
2007
Greatest Ever 80s Movies (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2007
Students of 'the Graduate' (Video short) as
Self
2007
The Seduction (Video short) as
Self
2007
The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord & Conflict (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2006
A Bedazzled Conversation with Harold Ramis (Video documentary short) as
Self
2006
E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Christie Brinkley (2006) - Self
2006
Siskel & Ebert (TV Series) as
Self - Guest Host
- A Good Year/Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus/For Your Consideration/Harsh Times/Copying Beethoven (2006) - Self - Guest Host
2006
Greatest Ever Comedy Movies (TV Special) as
Self
2006
Second City: First Family of Comedy (TV Mini Series documentary) as
Self
- Second City's Impact (2006) - Self
- It Came from Melonville (2006) - Self
- A College of Comedy (2006) - Self
2006
American Pets (Video short) as
Self
2006
The Ice Harvest: Beneath the Harvest (Video documentary short) as
Self
2006
The 50 Greatest Comedy Films (TV Special) as
Self
2005
The 100 Greatest Family Films (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2005
Best Ever Family Films (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2004
Stars & Stripes 1 (Video documentary short) as
Self
2004
Stars & Stripes 2 (Video documentary short) as
Self
2003
Unseen + Untold: National Lampoon's Animal House (TV Movie documentary) as
Self - Interviewee
2003
American Storytellers (Documentary) as
Self
2002
Comedy Central Canned Ham (TV Series) as
Self
- Analyze That (2002) - Self
2002
HBO First Look (TV Series documentary short) as
Self
- The Making of 'Analyze That' (2002) - Self
2002
VH-1 Behind the Movie (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Animal House (2002) - Self
2002
Groundhog Day: The Weight of Time (Video documentary short) as
Self - Interviewee
2002
The Daily Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Harold Ramis (2002) - Self - Guest
2001
Uncomfortably Close with Michael McKean (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Harold Ramis (2001) - Self - Guest
2000
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (TV Special documentary) as
Self
1999
Ghostbusters 1999 (Video short documentary) as
Self / Dr. Egon Spengler
1999
Caddyshack: The 19th Hole (Video short documentary) as
Self - Director
1998
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River (Documentary) as
Self
1998
The Yearbook: An 'Animal House' Reunion (Video documentary) as
Self - Writer
1996
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Jane Pauley/Harold Ramis/Los Straitjackets (1996) - Self - Guest
1995
The Annual 1995 ShoWest Awards (TV Special) as
Self - Presenter
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #2.29 (1993) - Self - Guest
1990
Slimer Won't Do That! The Making of 'The Real Ghostbusters' (TV Short documentary) as
Self
1989
The Arsenio Hall Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode #1.123 (1989) - Self - Guest
1989
The Oprah Winfrey Show (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 12 June 1989 (1989) - Self - Guest
1987
Will Rogers: Look Back in Laughter (TV Movie) as
Self - Narrator
1986
Comic Relief (TV Special) as
Moe Green
1985
The Richard Lewis 'I'm in Pain' Concert (TV Special documentary) as
Self - Witness
1985
The Second City 25th Anniversary Special (TV Special) as
Self
1984
The Top (TV Movie) as
Self
1983
The Rodney Dangerfield Special: I Can't Take It No More (TV Special) as
Self / Various
1983
Late Night with David Letterman (TV Series) as
Self - Guest
- Episode dated 21 July 1983 (1983) - Self - Guest
1976
TVTV Looks at the Academy Awards (TV Special documentary) as
Self
1976
Super Bowl (TV Movie documentary) as
Self (voice)
1969
Playboy After Dark (TV Series) as
Various
- Episode #1.22 (1969) - Various (uncredited)
Archive Footage
2020
Minty Comedic Arts (TV Series) as
Self
- 10 Things - Ghostbusters II The Unused Scripts (2023) - Self
- 10 Things You Didn't Know About Groundhog Day (2020) - Self
2014
Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode #41.60 (2021) - Self
- Episode #41.49 (2021) - Self
- Hollywood Sequels and Spin-Offs! (2020) - Self
- 2020 Movies (2020) - Self
- ET's Blockbuster Movie Preview Blowout! (2020) - Self
- Golden Globe Nominations! (2019) - Self
- Episode dated 26 December 2014 (2014) - Self
2021
CBS Mornings (TV Series) as
Self
- Episode dated 17 November 2021 (2021) - Self
2021
Hollywood Insider (TV Series) as
Self
- Bigger Than Ant-Man: A Tribute to Paul Rudd - The Winner's Journey (2021) - Self
2020
Belushi (Documentary) as
Self
2019
The Movies That Made Us (TV Series documentary) as
Self - Writer, Actor 'Egon'
- Ghostbusters (2019) - Self - Writer, Actor 'Egon'
2019
Le fantastique Mr Murray (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
2018
Love, Gilda (Documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2017
Hell's Club Part 2. Another Night (Video short) as
The Ghostbusters
2017
Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives (Documentary) as
Self (uncredited)
2017
The History of Comedy (TV Series documentary)
- Making Fun (2017)
2015
Lego Dimensions (Video Game) as
Dr. Egon Spengler
2015
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (Documentary) as
Self / Film Director
2015
The 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (TV Special) as
Self - In Memoriam
2014
The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards (TV Special) as
Self (In Memoriam)
2014
The Oscars (TV Special) as
Self - Director / Writer / Actor (In Memoriam)
2014
ITV Evening News (TV Series) as
Dr. Egon Spengler
- Episode dated 24 February 2014 (2014) - Dr. Egon Spengler
2012
Good Mythical Morning (TV Series) as
Dr. Egon Spengler
- The Last Twinkie on Earth (2012) - Dr. Egon Spengler
2012
Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) as
Dr. Egon Spengler
- Cazafantasmas, los auténticos (2012) - Dr. Egon Spengler
2011
L'antre du Mea (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Les jeux S.O.S. Fantômes (Partie 2) (2011) - Self
- Les jeux S.O.S. Fantômes (Partie 1) (2011) - Self
2011
Nostalgia Critic (TV Series) as
Egon Spengler
- Revenge of the Commercials (2011) - Egon Spengler
2008
The Factor (TV Series) as
Russell Ziskey
- Episode dated 29 April 2008 (2008) - Russell Ziskey
2007
Secrets of New York (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Tribeca: Mysteries of New York's Backlot Revealed (2007) - Self
1999
Imagining 'Heavy Metal' (Video documentary short) as
Self
1996
The Best of John Candy on SCTV (TV Movie) as
Various Characters
1988
The Best of SCTV (TV Special) as
Various Characters
1984
Ghostbusters ShoWest Reel (Short) as
Egon Spengler
1982
SCTV Network (TV Series) as
Various
- Teacher's Pet (1982) - Various (uncredited)

References

Harold Ramis Wikipedia


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