Bill Murray



Bill Murray (b. 1950) is an actor who first gained prominent exposure as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in its second season.

He is largely celebrated for his comedic roles where he's known for delivering deadpan performances, and enjoyed further acclaim for a shift to more dramatic roles beginning in Sofia Coppola's 2003 film Lost in Translation.

He has worked for director Frank Oz twice: in Little Shop of Horrors, he plays the masochistic patient Arthur Denton, opposite Steve Martin's sadistic dentist character, and in the 1991 film What About Bob? as a man riddled with several phobias who finds romance with a woman played by Sesame Street Muppeteer Fran Brill. In 2007, he appeared in The Darjeeling Limited, which featured an animatronic tiger built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

His other roles include Caddyshack (with Chevy Chase), Stripes (with John Candy), Tootsie (with Dustin Hoffman), Ghostbusters, the Christmas Carol-inspired Scrooged (with Carol Kane), Groundhog Day (with Andie MacDowell), Quick Change (with Geena Davis, which he also co-directed), and nine films with director Wes Anderson. He has also voiced Garfield in two movies, and Baloo in the 2016 live-action remake of The Jungle Book (which featured some preliminary work from the Henson Creature Shop), and has appeared as himself in the Looney Tunes movie Space Jam, and Zombieland (with Emma Stone).

One of his eight siblings is Brian Doyle-Murray, who appeared in a 1970s Sesame Street segment.