Chicago actor, writer and director Harold Ramis dies at 69 | WGN-TV
Sad sad day. He was a really great and down to earth guy. He will be missed.
Harold Ramis, who co-wrote Meatballs, Animal House, and Ghostbusters, and who wrote and directed Caddyshack and Groundhog Day in addition to many other directorial achievements, has died at age 69, according to the Chicago Tribune. Despite those achievements, Ramis is best known for playing Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II, where he provided the essential straight-man character to anchor the team that also included Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd.
Acting
1976–1977 Second City TV Various Characters Television series, series regular
1981 Stripes Russell Ziskey Also Writer
Heavy Metal Zeke Voice only, animated
1982 SCTV Network 90 Various Characters Television series, guest star
1983 National Lampoon's Vacation Marty Moose Voice only
Uncredited
Also Director
1984 Ghostbusters Dr. Egon Spengler Also Writer
1987 Baby Boom Steven Bochner
1988 Stealing Home Alan Appleby
1989 Ghostbusters II Dr. Egon Spengler Also Writer
1990 The Earth Day Special Dr. Egon Spengler[24]
1993 Groundhog Day Neurologist Also Writer/Director/Producer
1994 Airheads Chris Moore
Love Affair Sheldon Blumenthal
1997 As Good as It Gets Dr. Martin Bettes
2000 High Fidelity Rob's Dad Scenes deleted
2002 Orange County Don Durkett
2006 The Last Kiss Professor Bowler
2007 Knocked Up Ben's Dad
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story L’Chai’m
2009 Year One Adam Also Writer/Director/Co-Producer
Ghostbusters: The Video Game Dr. Egon Spengler Voice and likeness
Also Writer
Directing
Caddyshack (1980)
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) (screenplay by John Hughes)
Club Paradise (1986)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Stuart Saves His Family (1995) (screenplay by Al Franken)
Multiplicity (1996) (screenplay by Chris Miller, Mary Hale, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel)
Analyze This (1999)
Bedazzled (2000)
Analyze That (2002)
The Ice Harvest (2005) (screenplay by Richard Russo and Robert Benton)
The Office (2006) (TV)
Year One (2009)
Producing
Second City Television (1976–1979) (TV) - Associate Producer
The Rodney Dangerfield Show: It's Not Easy Bein' Me (1982) (TV) - Producer
The Top (1983) (TV) - Executive Producer
Back to School (1986) - Executive Producer
Armed and Dangerous (1986) - (Uncredited)[citation needed] Executive Producer
Groundhog Day (1993) - Producer
Multiplicity (1996) - Producer
Bedazzled (2000) - Producer
The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest (2002) - Executive Producer
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2006) - Executive Producer
Year One (2009) - Co-Producer
Writing
The National Lampoon Radio Hour (1973–1974)
The National Lampoon Show (1975) (Stage)
Second City Television (1976–1979) (TV)
National Lampoon's Animal House (with Doug Kenney and Chris Miller) (1978)
Delta House (1979) (TV)
Meatballs (with Dan Goldberg and Len Blum) (1979)
Caddyshack (with Doug Kenney and Brian Doyle-Murray) (1980)
Stripes (with Dan Goldberg and Len Blum) (1981)
The Rodney Dangerfield Show: It's Not Easy Bein' Me (1982) (TV)
Ghostbusters (with Dan Aykroyd) (1984)
Back to School (with Steven Kampmann, Will Porter and Peter Torokvei) (1986)
Club Paradise (with Brian Doyle-Murray and Chris Miller) (1986)
Armed and Dangerous (with Peter Torokvei) (1986)
Caddyshack II (with Peter Torokvei) (1988)
Ghostbusters II (with Dan Aykroyd) (1989)
Rover Dangerfield (with Rodney Dangerfield) (1991)
Groundhog Day (with Danny Rubin) (1993)
Analyze This (with Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan) (1999)
Bedazzled (with Larry Gelbart and Peter Tolan) (2000)
Analyze That (with Peter Tolan and Peter Steinfeld) (2002)
Year One (with Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky) (2009)
Ghostbusters: The Video Game (with Dan Aykroyd) (2009) (Video Game)
Sad sad day. He was a really great and down to earth guy. He will be missed.
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