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20 Facts About Brian Doyle-Murray

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Brian Doyle-Murray appeared in the Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants as The Flying Dutchman, the Cartoon Network original animated series My Gym Partner's a Monkey as Coach Tiffany Gills, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack as Captain K'nuckles, a recurring role as Don Ehlert on the ABC sitcom The Middle, and Bob Kruger in the AMC dramedy Lodge 49.

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Brian Doyle-Murray's oldest brother Ed was a businessman prior to his death in 2020 and brother Andy is a chef and runs the Murray Brothers "CaddyShack" restaurant located in the World Golf Village resort near St Augustine, Florida.

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Brian Doyle-Murray is one of nine children born to Irish Catholic parents Lucille, a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, a lumber salesman.

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Brian Doyle-Murray attended Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga, California in the late 1960s.

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Brian Doyle-Murray was a regular on The National Lampoon Radio Hour, a comedy program syndicated nationally to 600 stations from 1973 to 1975.

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Brian Doyle-Murray then appeared as a cast member on the ABC variety show Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell, alongside his brother Bill and fellow Lampoon alum Christopher Guest.

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Amid some cast changes, Brian Doyle-Murray was made a featured cast member, within the second-half of the show's fifth season in 1980.

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Brian Doyle-Murray remained the only writer to return to the show in season 6, and though not a featured player any more, he wrote for Jean Doumanian for 1980 to 1981, after executive producer Lorne Michaels, the entire cast, and most of the writing staff had left.

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Brian Doyle-Murray is one of the few people to have worked as a writer for all three producers of the show.

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Brian Doyle-Murray appeared with Chase in a small role as a camp clerk in National Lampoon's Vacation, and later memorably appeared as Clark's uptight boss, Frank Shirley, in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

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Brian Doyle-Murray landed a small role as Jack Ruby in JFK.

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Brian Doyle-Murray co-starred as arcade tycoon Noah Vanderhoff in the film version of Wayne's World.

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Brian Doyle-Murray was seen in the movies Sixteen Candles, Club Paradise, Legal Eagles, How I Got Into College, Jury Duty, Multiplicity, The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story, As Good as It Gets, Dr Dolittle, Stuart Little, Kill the Man, Bedazzled, Snow Dogs, Nearing Grace, Daddy Day Camp, and 17 Again.

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Brian Doyle-Murray portrayed Mel Sanger, the bubble boy's dad, on Seinfeld, and played Joe Hackett's high-school baseball coach on a 1992 episode of Wings.

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Brian Doyle-Murray played studio head and Greg Warner's boss George Savitsky on Yes Dear.

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Brian Doyle-Murray played Shawn Spencer's grandfather on the episode "The Old and the Restless" on the USA Network TV series Psych, with an uncredited cameo in the sixth season.

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Brian Doyle-Murray had a recurring role as Mr Ehlert, owner of the car dealership where Frankie Heck works on the ABC-TV series The Middle.

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Brian Doyle-Murray recently appeared on Lodge 49 on the AMC Network.

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Brian Doyle-Murray appeared in one episode of The Angry Beavers.

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Brian Doyle-Murray has appeared as Salty in the Family Guy episode "A Fish Out of Water", the voice of Jack the barber on King of the Hill, the voice of the mayor in the Ghostbusters video game, the voice of Qui the Promoter in the 2005 video game Jade Empire, Prince Huge on Adventure Time in the episode "The Hard Easy", Charlie in Mike Judge's The Goode Family, and Jacob on Motorcity.