1. Bill Murray became a national presence on Saturday Night Live from 1977 to 1980, receiving a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.
94 Facts About Bill Murray
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Bill Murray had supporting roles in Tootsie, Little Shop of Horrors, Ed Wood, Kingpin and Osmosis Jones.
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Bill Murray starred as Dr Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters, and Ghostbusters II and has reprised his role in various projects within the Ghostbusters franchise.
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Bill Murray began his collaboration with director Wes Anderson with Rushmore, which earned him an Independent Spirit Award.
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Bill Murray went on to appear in many of Anderson's films, including The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs and The French Dispatch.
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Bill Murray starred in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, earning him Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards as well as a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
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In 2016, Bill Murray was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
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Bill Murray attended an all-boys Jesuit school in Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago.
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Bill Murray attended St Joseph's grade school and Loyola Academy.
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Bill Murray officially joined the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live for the show's second season, following the departure of Chevy Chase.
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Bill Murray was with SNL for three seasons from 1977 to 1980.
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Bill Murray followed this with a portrayal of Hunter S Thompson in Where the Buffalo Roam.
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Bill Murray was the first guest on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman on February 1,1982.
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Bill Murray later appeared on the first episode of the Late Show with David Letterman on August 30,1993, when the show moved to CBS.
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On January 31,2012,30 years after his first appearance with Letterman, Bill Murray appeared again on his talk show.
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Bill Murray appeared as Letterman's final guest when the host retired on May 20,2015.
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The film, which Bill Murray co-wrote, was his first starring role in a drama.
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Bill Murray returned to film with Scrooged and Ghostbusters II.
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Bill Murray made his first and only attempt at directing when he co-directed Quick Change with producer Howard Franklin.
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Bill Murray starred in Harold Ramis's fantasy comedy Groundhog Day.
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Bill Murray received much critical praise for his role in Wes Anderson's coming of age comedy Rushmore, opposite Jason Schwartzman and Olivia Williams.
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Bill Murray then took on more dramatic roles in Wild Things and Cradle Will Rock.
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Bill Murray decided to take a turn towards more dramatic roles and experienced a resurgence in his career.
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Bill Murray plays an aging movie star on assignment in Tokyo to shoot a Suntory whiskey commercial.
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Bill Murray was considered a favorite to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but Sean Penn ultimately won the award for his performance in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River.
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Bill Murray played himself "hiding out" in a local coffee shop in Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes.
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Bill Murray voiced Garfield in Garfield: The Movie, which role he reprised in Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties.
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Bill Murray later said that he only took the role because he was under the mistaken impression that the screenplay, co-written by Joel Cohen, was the work of Joel Coen.
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Bill Murray made his third collaboration with Anderson in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, co-written by Anderson with Noah Baumbach.
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Bill Murray plays Zissou, an oceanographer-filmmaker based on Jacques Cousteau who is struggling to finish his latest documentary and has to reconcile with his son.
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The film initially received mixed reviews, although Bill Murray's performance was praised, and was a box office bomb.
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Roger Ebert praised Murray: "No actor is better than Bill Murray at doing nothing at all, and being fascinating while not doing it".
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That same year, Bill Murray announced that he was taking a hiatus from acting as he had not had the time to relax since his new breakthrough in the late 1990s.
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Bill Murray returned to the big screen for cameos in Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited and Peter Segal's Get Smart.
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Bill Murray played an important role in the post-apocalyptic film City of Ember.
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Bill Murray starred in the independent film Get Low alongside Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek.
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Also in 2009, Bill Murray played himself in the zombie comedy Zombieland starring Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Jesse Eisenberg.
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Bill Murray voiced Mr Badger in Anderson's stop-motion film Fantastic Mr Fox.
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Bill Murray, who has a wider range than we sometimes realize, finds the human core of this FDR and presents it tenderly.
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Since 2010, Bill Murray has has appeared in Wes Anderson films, including the coming of age comedy Moonrise Kingdom which starred Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton.
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Bill Murray made a brief comic turn in Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel.
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Bill Murray starred in the coming of age film St Vincent alongside Melissa McCarthy and Naomi Watts.
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Bill Murray played Vincent, a retired, grumpy, alcoholic Vietnam War veteran, and received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance.
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Bill Murray voiced Baloo in Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book.
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Bill Murray received praise for his comic performance with Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly describing him at "his wry, what-me-worry comic-relief best".
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Bill Murray was nominated for Favorite Animated Movie Voice at the People's Choice Awards; he lost to Ellen DeGeneres who reprised her role in Finding Dory.
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In 2018, Bill Murray returned to Saturday Night Live portraying Donald Trump's White House's Chief strategist Steve Bannon alongside Fred Armisen as journalist and author Michael Wolff.
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Bill Murray briefly reprised his role as himself in Zombieland: Double Tap.
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Bill Murray was part of the ensemble cast of Jim Jarmusch's zombie-comedy The Dead Don't Die.
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Bill Murray reprised his role in Groundhog Day for an ad which aired during the 2020 Super Bowl.
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Bill Murray reunited with Sofia Coppola for the comedy-drama On the Rocks opposite Rashida Jones.
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Bill Murray appeared in a small role in The French Dispatch, reuniting him with Wes Anderson for the 9th time.
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Bill Murray reprised his role as Peter Venkman in Jason Reitman's Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
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In October 2021, Bill Murray joined the cast of the superhero film Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Bill Murray appeared in Peter Farrelly's biographical war comedy-drama film The Greatest Beer Run Ever alongside Zac Efron and Russell Crowe.
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Bill Murray is a partner with his brothers in Bill Murray Bros.
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Bill Murray founded and was part-owner of the St Paul Saints, a Minor League Baseball team of the International League and the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins.
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Bill Murray occasionally traveled to Saint Paul, Minnesota to watch the team's games.
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Bill Murray has invested in a number of other minor league teams in the past, including the Utica Blue Sox, the Fort Myers Miracle, the Salt Lake Sting, the Catskill Cougars, and the Salt Lake City Trappers.
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In 2017, Bill Murray recorded a studio album entitled New Worlds featuring singing and literary recitations with classical musicians.
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In 2022, Bill Murray recited poetry and sang with the cellist Jan Vogler, in a recorded production of New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization, which was released in cinemas.
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Bill Murray's popularity has been such that he holds an iconic status in American popular culture.
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Bill Murray has homes in Los Angeles; Rancho Santa Fe, California; Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; Charleston, South Carolina; and Palisades, New York.
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Between 2008 and 2013, Bill Murray maintained a residence in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich Village.
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In 2007, Bill Murray was pulled over by Swedish police on suspicion of driving a golf cart under the influence of alcohol.
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Bill Murray has claimed that art and music have helped ease past depressive episodes.
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Bill Murray is a fan of several Chicago professional sports teams, especially the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Bears, and the Chicago Bulls.
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Bill Murray was once a guest color commentator for a Cubs game during the 1980s.
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Bill Murray was in attendance, along with fellow Cubs fans John Cusack, Eddie Vedder, and Bonnie Hunt, during the Cubs' historic Game Seven victory during the 2016 World Series.
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Bill Murray is an avid Quinnipiac University basketball fan, where his son served as head of basketball operations, and he is a regular fixture at home games.
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Bill Murray is a fixture at home games of those teams when in his native Chicago.
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In 2006, Bill Murray became the sixth recipient of Baseball Reliquary's annual Hilda Award, established in 2001 "to recognize distinguished service to the game by a fan".
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Bill Murray sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during a 2016 World Series game at Wrigley Field.
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Bill Murray performed a tandem jump with the US Army Parachute Team Golden Knights.
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Bill Murray was the MC for Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival on July 28,2007, where he dressed in various guises of Clapton as he appeared through the years.
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Bill Murray served as MC again in 2010 and once more in 2019.
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Bill Murray's son, Luke, is an assistant coach for the UConn Huskies men's basketball team.
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Bill Murray has attended several of their games, such as during their championship run in the 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
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Bill Murray donated $1,000 to former Governor of Nebraska Bob Kerrey's successful election to the United States Senate in 1988.
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Michael and Lilo Salmon, the founders of Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly, said Bill Murray performed "miracles" for them.
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Bill Murray has been known for his mood swings, leading Dan Aykroyd to refer to him as "The Murricane".
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Bill Murray has said in interviews that he and film director Richard Donner did not get along well while filming Scrooged, stating that they would disagree with each other.
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Bill Murray had a falling out with film director and longtime collaborator Harold Ramis during the production of Groundhog Day.
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Bill Murray eventually reconciled with Ramis just before Ramis' death in February 2014.
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Bill Murray eventually stopped for the day and started again the next morning.
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The woman filed a complaint and received a settlement of $100,000 from Bill Murray, and signed a non-disclosure agreement.
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In October 2022, Geena Davis alleged in her memoir Dying of Politeness that Bill Murray harassed and yelled at her during the filming of Quick Change and that, during their first meeting in a hotel suite, he had pressured her to let him use a massage machine on her back.
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Bill Murray recalled a dual interview on The Arsenio Hall Show during which Murray repeatedly tried to pull down the spaghetti strap of her dress.
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That same month, Seth Green alleged that when he was nine years old, backstage on the Saturday Night Live set, Bill Murray picked him up from a chair by his ankles and dangled him over a garbage can, before Green fell in after accidentally striking Bill Murray in the testicles.
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Rob Schneider has alleged that Bill Murray "absolutely hated" Adam Sandler and Chris Farley when Bill Murray returned to Saturday Night Live as a guest host.
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Bill Murray has been defended by longtime collaborator Wes Anderson amid the misconduct claims.
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Bill Murray has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards.
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Bill Murray was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Sofia Coppola's romance Lost in Translation.
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In 2015, Bill Murray was inducted into the Caddie Hall of Fame.