Posted on 02/24/2014 9:26:17 AM PST by Borges
Harold Ramis was one of Hollywood’s most successful comedy filmmakers when he moved his family from Los Angeles back to the Chicago area in 1996. His career was still thriving, with “Groundhog Day” acquiring almost instant classic status upon its 1993 release and 1984’s “Ghostbusters” ranking among the highest-grossing comedies of all time, but the writer-director wanted to return to the city where he’d launched his career as a Second City performer.
“There's a pride in what I do that other people share because I'm local, which in L.A. is meaningless; no one's local,” Ramis said upon the launch of the first movie he directed after his move, the 1999 mobster-in-therapy comedy “Analyze This,” another hit. “It's a good thing. I feel like I represent the city in a certain way.”
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Me too. Was he Canadian?
Egon Spengler: “I collect mold, spores, and fungus.”
Funny guy. Incredible comic sense.
Caddyshack
Stripes
Ghostbusters
Back to School
Groundhog Day
Analyize This
Not a bad career.
“Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must’ve been something before electricity.”
The stuff he did early in his career on the old SCTV program out of Toronto was just hilarious. He wrote most of it and worked with a very talented cast (John Candy, Eugene Levy, Catherine, O’Hara, etc.)
He will be missed.
That’s what I was thinking. RIP, Egon!!
Aw crap. I didn’t think he was that old.
LOL! I just watched Caddyshack this past weekend. Too funny.
That is a creepy coincidence.
Several months ago, I thought of a high school teacher I had many, many years ago. Googled him, found out some “current” info about him, and within days after that, he died. (Glad to hear this stuff does not happen only “to me”.)
“Son of Beach! Sheet!”
LOL!
I remember seeing Stripes back in ‘81. That was a funny scene!
Loved him and had a crush on him in Ghostbusters!
Lightin up Francis LOL!
Wow. Can’t believe he was 69 and is now gone. He always looked much younger than he was. Didn’t he also do a cameo as one of the caddies in Caddyshack?
Sad. Autoimmune disease related.
R.I.P.
Thanks for the laughs, funny man.
I for one am counting on our good Lord having an amazing sense of humor, so RIP for a few Mr. Ramis, and then set to work entertaining The Boss.
Will have to sit down for still another viewing of Ghostbusters tonight.
Tatt
That’s too bad.
I thought he was funny.
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