William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is known for his deadpan delivery in roles ranging from studio comedies to independent dramas. He has frequently collaborated with directors Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, and Jim Jarmusch. He has earned numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards, as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. In 2016, Murray was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is known for his deadpan delivery in roles ranging from studio comedies to independent dramas. He has frequently collaborated with directors Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, and Jim Jarmusch. He has earned numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards, as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. In 2016, Murray was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
Murray was born in Evanston, Illinois, to Lucille (1921–1988), a mail-room clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II (1921–1967), a lumber salesman. He was raised in Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. Murray and his eight siblings grew up in an Irish Catholic family. His paternal grandfather was from County Cork, while his maternal ancestors were from County Galway. Three of his siblings, John Murray, Joel Murray, and Brian Doyle-Murray, are also actors.
Murray attended Regis University in Denver, Colorado, where he studied pre-med for a year. He dropped out after being arrested for marijuana possession. In 1973, he moved to New York City to pursue a career in comedy. He joined the National Lampoon Radio Hour, and later appeared in the National Lampoon stage show Lemmings.
In 1977, Murray joined the cast of Saturday Night Live. He quickly became one of the show's most popular cast members, known for his deadpan delivery and his ability to improvise. He left the show in 1980 to pursue a film career.
Murray's first major film role was in the 1979 comedy Meatballs. He went on to star in a number of successful comedies, including Caddyshack (1980), Stripes (1981), Ghostbusters (1984), and Groundhog Day (1993). He has also starred in a number of critically acclaimed dramas, such as Lost in Translation (2003) and Broken Flowers (2005).
Murray is known for his eccentric and unpredictable behavior. He has been known to disappear from sets and film projects, and he has often been quoted as saying that he doesn't like to work. However, he is also known for his generosity and his willingness to help out his fellow actors.
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Filmography (Movies)
Christmas in Nashville
Character:Self
Release Date:03/12/2025
John Candy: I Like Me
Character:Self - Mainstage Cast, The Second City
Release Date:04/09/2025
Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:22/08/2025
The Phoenician Scheme
Character:God
Release Date:23/05/2025
The Friend
Character:Walter
Release Date:28/03/2025
Riff Raff
Character:Lefty
Release Date:27/02/2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Character:Self
Release Date:14/02/2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Character:Self
Release Date:27/01/2025
Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023
Character:Self
Release Date:29/11/2024
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Character:Peter Venkman
Release Date:20/03/2024
Franz Klammer - The Ski "Kaiser" Will Be 70
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:03/12/2023
Spirit of Golf
Character:Self
Release Date:23/07/2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Character:Lord Krylar
Release Date:15/02/2023
The Greatest Beer Run Ever
Character:The Colonel
Release Date:23/09/2022
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Character:Peter Venkman
Release Date:18/11/2021
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Character:Arthur Howitzer, Jr.
Release Date:21/10/2021
New Worlds, The Cradle of Civilization
Character:Self
Release Date:16/07/2021
Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019
Character:Self
Release Date:20/11/2020
On the Rocks
Character:Felix
Release Date:02/10/2020
Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine
Character:Self
Release Date:11/06/2020
Belushi
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:16/05/2020
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:07/01/2020
Fantastic Mr. Murray
Character:Self - Portrait Subject (archive footage)
Release Date:20/10/2019
Zombieland: Double Tap
Character:Bill Murray
Release Date:09/10/2019
Cola Wars
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:18/08/2019
Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk
Character:Narrator
Release Date:07/06/2019
The Dead Don't Die
Character:Chief Cliff Robertson
Release Date:15/05/2019
TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
Character:Self
Release Date:19/10/2018
For The Fun Of The Game
Character:Self
Release Date:17/10/2018
Studio 54
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:15/06/2018
Always at The Carlyle
Character:Self
Release Date:11/05/2018
The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man
Character:Himself
Release Date:02/05/2018
Love, Gilda
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:18/04/2018
Isle of Dogs
Character:Boss (voice)
Release Date:23/03/2018
The Bill Murray Experience
Character:Himself
Release Date:19/12/2017
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Character:Self
Release Date:01/10/2016
Ghostbusters
Character:Martin Heiss
Release Date:14/07/2016
The Jungle Book
Character:Baloo (voice)
Release Date:07/04/2016
A Very Murray Christmas
Character:Bill Murray
Release Date:04/12/2015
Rock the Kasbah
Character:Richie Lanz
Release Date:22/10/2015
Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon
Character:Self
Release Date:13/10/2015
Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
Character:Self / Mr. Bishop
Release Date:22/09/2015
Aloha
Character:Carson Welch
Release Date:29/05/2015
"That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To'
Character:Self
Release Date:17/02/2015
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Character:Self - Actor
Release Date:25/01/2015
Dumb and Dumber To
Character:Ice Pick
Release Date:12/11/2014
St. Vincent
Character:Vincent MacKenna
Release Date:09/10/2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Character:M. Ivan
Release Date:26/02/2014
The Monuments Men
Character:Sgt. Richard Campbell
Release Date:24/01/2014
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
Character:Saul
Release Date:08/02/2013
Hyde Park on Hudson
Character:Franklin D. Roosevelt
Release Date:07/12/2012
Moonrise Kingdom
Character:Mr. Bishop
Release Date:16/05/2012
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:04/02/2012
Passion Play
Character:Happy Shannon
Release Date:10/01/2011
The Women of SNL
Character:Richard Dawson / Various (archive footage)
Release Date:01/11/2010
The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'
Character:Self - Businessman
Release Date:12/10/2010
Ballhawks
Character:Narrator
Release Date:01/10/2010
Behind Jim Jarmusch
Character:Self
Release Date:01/09/2010
Get Low
Character:Frank Quinn
Release Date:30/07/2010
Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010
Character:Self
Release Date:26/06/2010
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Character:Clive Badger (voice)
Release Date:14/10/2009
Zombieland
Character:Bill Murray
Release Date:02/10/2009
The Limits of Control
Character:American
Release Date:01/05/2009
City of Ember
Character:Mayor Cole
Release Date:07/10/2008
Get Smart
Character:Agent 13
Release Date:19/06/2008
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Character:Self
Release Date:05/02/2008
Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007
Character:Self
Release Date:07/12/2007
FCU: Fact Checkers Unit
Character:Bill Murray
Release Date:09/09/2007
The Darjeeling Limited
Character:The Businessman
Release Date:07/09/2007
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
Character:Self
Release Date:06/05/2007
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Character:Self
Release Date:12/12/2006
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Character:Garfield (voice)
Release Date:15/06/2006
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd
Character:Various Characters (archive footage)
Release Date:06/09/2005
The Lost City
Character:The Writer
Release Date:03/09/2005
Broken Flowers
Character:Don Johnston
Release Date:31/07/2005
This Is an Adventure
Character:Self
Release Date:10/05/2005
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
Character:Self
Release Date:09/05/2005
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
Character:Self
Release Date:15/04/2005
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live
Character:Self
Release Date:20/02/2005
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
Character:Self / Steve Zissou
Release Date:15/01/2005
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Character:Steve Zissou
Release Date:10/12/2004
Garfield: Bringing the Cat to Life
Character:Self / Garfield (voice)
Release Date:19/10/2004
This Old Cub
Character:Himself
Release Date:25/08/2004
Garfield
Character:Garfield (voice)
Release Date:10/06/2004
Coffee and Cigarettes
Character:Bill Murray (segment "Delirium")
Release Date:12/03/2004
Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation'
Character:Self
Release Date:03/02/2004
Lost in Translation
Character:Bob Harris
Release Date:18/09/2003
Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles
Character:Bill Murray The K. (archive footage)
Release Date:16/08/2003
Groundhog Day: The Weight of Time
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:29/01/2002
With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson
Character:Self (archival footage)
Release Date:17/12/2001
Speaking of Sex
Character:Ezri Stovall
Release Date:18/10/2001
The Royal Tenenbaums
Character:Raleigh St. Clair
Release Date:05/10/2001
Osmosis Jones
Character:Frank Detorre
Release Date:10/08/2001
Charlie's Angels
Character:John Bosley
Release Date:02/11/2000
Hamlet
Character:Polonius
Release Date:12/05/2000
Michael Jordan to the Max
Character:Self
Release Date:05/05/2000
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Character:Self
Release Date:25/01/2000
Cradle Will Rock
Character:Tommy Crickshaw
Release Date:10/12/1999
Ghostbusters 1999
Character:Self - Archive Footage
Release Date:29/10/1999
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Character:Self
Release Date:25/09/1999
Caddyshack: The 19th Hole
Character:Carl Spackler (archive footage)
Release Date:05/05/1999
Rushmore
Character:Herman Blume
Release Date:11/12/1998
With Friends Like These
Character:Maurice Melnick
Release Date:10/09/1998
Wild Things
Character:Kenneth Bowden
Release Date:20/03/1998
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Character:Wallace Ritchie
Release Date:14/11/1997
Space Jam
Character:Bill Murray
Release Date:15/11/1996
Larger Than Life
Character:Jack Corcoran
Release Date:26/07/1996
Kingpin
Character:Ernie McCracken
Release Date:04/07/1996
R.E.M.: Rough Cut
Character:Himself
Release Date:24/10/1995
WWE Hall Of Fame 1995
Character:Self
Release Date:25/06/1995
Ed Wood
Character:Bunny Breckinridge
Release Date:28/09/1994
Mad Dog and Glory
Character:Frank Milo
Release Date:05/03/1993
Groundhog Day
Character:Phil Connors
Release Date:11/02/1993
What About Bob?
Character:Bob Wiley
Release Date:17/05/1991
Quick Change
Character:Grimm
Release Date:13/07/1990
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:24/09/1989
Ghostbusters II
Character:Peter Venkman
Release Date:16/06/1989
Scrooged
Character:Francis Cross
Release Date:22/11/1988
She's Having a Baby
Character:Bill Murray (uncredited)
Release Date:05/02/1988
Little Shop of Horrors
Character:Arthur Denton
Release Date:19/12/1986
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
Character:Self
Release Date:14/01/1986
The Best of John Belushi
Character:Various Characters
Release Date:03/08/1985
On the Scene with the Ghostbusters
Character:
Release Date:04/12/1984
The Razor's Edge
Character:Larry Darrell
Release Date:19/10/1984
Nothing Lasts Forever
Character:Ted Breughel
Release Date:06/09/1984
Ghostbusters
Character:Peter Venkman
Release Date:08/06/1984
Tootsie
Character:Jeff Slater
Release Date:17/12/1982
The Rodney Dangerfield Show: It's Not Easy Bein' Me
Character:Various
Release Date:12/05/1982
Twilight Theatre
Character:Lefty in 'First Film'
Release Date:13/02/1982
Fun & Games
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1982
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever
Character:Bytes
Release Date:25/11/1981
Stripes
Character:John Winger
Release Date:26/06/1981
Cut Flowers
Character:
Release Date:07/03/1981
Caddyshack
Character:Carl Spackler
Release Date:25/07/1980
Bill Murray Live from the Second City
Character:Self
Release Date:06/07/1980
The Missing Link
Character:Dragon (voice)
Release Date:21/05/1980
Where the Buffalo Roam
Character:Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Release Date:25/04/1980
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
Character:Man on the Street
Release Date:20/09/1979
Meatballs
Character:Tripper Harrison
Release Date:28/06/1979
Perchance to Dream
Character:Honker
Release Date:10/03/1979
Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood
Character:Self / Nixon Voter (uncredited)
Release Date:02/11/1978
The Things We Did Last Summer
Character:Self
Release Date:28/10/1978
The Dogs
Character:
Release Date:02/10/1978
Loose Shoes
Character:Lefty
Release Date:01/09/1978
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
Character:Bill Murray the K.
Release Date:22/03/1978
TVTV Looks at the Oscars
Character:Self
Release Date:30/03/1976
Super Bowl
Character:Himself
Release Date:01/03/1976
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Character:Nick Kessel (uncredited)
Release Date:04/02/1976
Television Appearances
The Now
Character:Psychotherapist
Reunited Apart
Character:Self
The Movies That Made Us
Character:Peter Venkman (archive footage)
Vice Principals
Character:Principal Welles
Angie Tribeca
Character:Vic Deakins
Parneviks
Character:Self
Hot Ones
Character:Self
MLB Network Presents
Character:Self (archive footage)
Olive Kitteridge
Character:Jack Kennison
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character:Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character:Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Character:Self
Alpha House
Character:Senator Vernon Smits
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Character:Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Character:Self - Guest
Parks and Recreation
Character:Walter Gunderson
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday
Character:
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
Character:Self
Markus Lanz
Character:Self
The Graham Norton Show
Character:Self
El hormiguero
Character:Self - Guest
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Character:Himself
Iron Chef America
Character:Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Character:Self - Guest
The Sweet Spot
Character:Self
Banzai
Character:
The View
Character:Self - Guest
E! True Hollywood Story
Character:
The Daily Show
Character:Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Character:Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
Character:Self - Guest
Getaway
Character:
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Character:Self
Entertainment Tonight
Character:
Saturday Night Live
Character:Self - Host
Saturday Night Live
Character:Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live
Character:Self - Various Characters
Saturday Night Live
Character:Self
Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell
Character:
The Oscars
Character:Self
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