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'Ghostbusters' Actor Harold Ramis Dies at 69
Yahoo News ^ | 2/24/14 | Meriah Doty

Posted on 02/24/2014 11:56:16 AM PST by Kartographer

Harold Ramis, best known for appearing in "Ghostbusters" and directing comedic films "Groundhog Day," "National Lampoon's Vacation," and "Caddyshack," died at the age of 69 early Monday.

Ramis died from complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, which is a rare disease that involves swelling of the blood vessels, according to his wife Erica Mann.

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The man knew comedy! Caddyshack and Groundhog Day are two movies that you can dust off anytime and laugh just as hard as the first time you watch them!
1 posted on 02/24/2014 11:56:16 AM PST by Kartographer
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The first half of Stripes also


2 posted on 02/24/2014 11:58:36 AM PST by babble-on
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What a career!

Directing

Caddyshack (1980)
National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983)
Club Paradise (1986)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
Multiplicity (1996)
Analyze This (1999)
Bedazzled (2000)
Analyze That (2002)
The Ice Harvest (2005)
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
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)


3 posted on 02/24/2014 11:58:51 AM PST by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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I loved Stripes.

"C'mon? It's Czechoslovakia. It will be like going to Wisconsin."

"I got my ass kicked in Wisconsin."

4 posted on 02/24/2014 11:59:07 AM PST by MattinNJ (It's over Johnny. The America you knew is gone. Denial serves no purpose.)
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WHO YOU GONNA CALL?


Well too bad, not him anymore...
5 posted on 02/24/2014 12:00:46 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: babble-on
John Winger: Cut it out! Cut it out! Cut it out! The hell's the matter with you? Stupid! We're all very different people. We're not Watusi. We're not Spartans. We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts! Here's proof: his nose is cold! But there's no animal that's more faithful, that's more loyal, more loveable than the mutt. Who saw "Old Yeller?" Who cried when Old Yeller got shot at the end?"

Not only funny It made me proud to think that!!!
6 posted on 02/24/2014 12:04:22 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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sorry to hear this one


7 posted on 02/24/2014 12:06:48 PM PST by Revelation 911
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Damn. He was great in everything he did, even going back to his early days on SCTV.


8 posted on 02/24/2014 12:08:37 PM PST by dfwgator
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Lighten up, Francis.


9 posted on 02/24/2014 12:09:23 PM PST by 867V309 (Obammy = LIAR)
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Damn. He was one talented individual. RIP.


10 posted on 02/24/2014 12:09:33 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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English Class scene in Stripes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iINyyfDf_xE


11 posted on 02/24/2014 12:09:47 PM PST by dfwgator
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Ramis died from complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, which is a rare disease that involves swelling of the blood vessels, according to his wife Erica Mann.

THAT doesn't sound like a fun time. Poor guy.

12 posted on 02/24/2014 12:10:09 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Hey, we’re walkin’!


13 posted on 02/24/2014 12:10:50 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: LRoggy

bttt


14 posted on 02/24/2014 12:11:12 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: dfwgator

Classic.


15 posted on 02/24/2014 12:11:24 PM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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Harold from his SCTV days, The show definitely wasn’t as good after he left.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkwvUhfKK_A


16 posted on 02/24/2014 12:13:54 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Kartographer

One of the rare hollyweird types who DIDN’T succumb to the leftist drivel trawled out these days. Hella’ respect for this man’s work. RIP Egon...


17 posted on 02/24/2014 12:21:05 PM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Nothing does more damage to the left than an honest election.")
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Do, Re, Egon:

Ghost Busters scene.

18 posted on 02/24/2014 12:30:46 PM PST by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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RIP Harold. He was a huge talent. All his movies were good. I personally thought “Caddyshack” and “Back to School” were two of the funniest movies ever made. I start chuckling just thinking about some of the lines in those movies.


19 posted on 02/24/2014 12:37:30 PM PST by circlecity
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And this vapid Yahoo writer identifies him as “Ghostbuster Actor”

It makes my hair hurt.


20 posted on 02/24/2014 12:43:57 PM PST by stanne
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