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Old 02-24-2014, 02:49 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Harold Allen Ramis (November 21, 1944 – February 24, 2014)

Harold Ramis died today, Febuary 24. I thought he deserved his own thread instead of being tucked away in some thread and forgotten. I don't know how impressed with his work, but he acted, wrote and directed some of my favorite movies. Groundhog Day was one of my all time favorite movies. He was one of the original writers for SCTV, a Canadian sketch comedy show that featured comdeians: Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Joe Flaherty, John Candy, Martin Short, Rick Moranis, Robin Duke, Tony Rosato and of course Harold Ramis.

The following list of credit I took from wikipedia's filmology section:
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Spoiler for Acting:
  • 1981 Stripes - Russell Ziskey - Writer
  • 1981 Heavy Metal - Zeke - Voice
  • 1983 National Lampoon's Vacation - Marty Moose - Voice, Uncredited Director
  • 1984 Ghostbusters - Dr. Egon Spengler
  • 1987 Baby Boom - Steven Bochner
  • 1988 Stealing Home - Alan Appleby
  • 1989 Ghostbusters II - Dr. Egon Spengler
  • 1990 The Earth Day Special - Dr. Elon Spengler (Brother of Egon)
  • 1993 Groundhog Day - Neurologist - Writer, director, producer
  • 1994 Airheads - Chris Moore
  • 1994 Love Affair - Sheldon Blumenthal
  • 1997 As Good as It Gets - Dr. Martin Bettes
  • 2000 High Fidelity - Rob's Dad - Scenes deleted
  • 2002 Orange County - Don Durkett
  • 2006 The Last Kiss - Professor Bowler
  • 2007 Knocked Up - Ben's Dad
  • 2007 Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - L’Chai’m
  • 2009 Year One - Adam - Writer, director, co-producer
  • 2009 Ghostbusters: The Video Game - Dr. Egon Spengler - Voice

Spoiler for Producer:
  • 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)


Spoiler for 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) - Voice Writer
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Groundhog Day is one of the greatest screenplays ever written.
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Groundhog Day is one of the greatest screenplays ever written.
That and Ghostbusters are 2 f my favorites of his.

He had so many classics.
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Groundhog Day is one of the greatest screenplays ever written.
I agree, a lot of his movies (in which was a screen-writer or acted in) have classic lines in them.
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"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº?
“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac.
“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle.
"If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards
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Loved SCTV as a kid. He will be missed. RIP.


As iconic early SCTV character Moe Green.


As the host of a wonderfully cheesy late night Sci-Fi show on SCTV.
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Man I loved SCTV back in the day.
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I always love the humour of SCTV. Instead of the typical commercial advertiseing heating and cooling or car mechanical schools, Harold Ramis does one for philosophers. He plays a bit part doctor in the Babe Ruth Story.
And the Canadian icon John Candy as the American icon Babe Ruth, the Japanese icon Grogan and the Irish icon Finian the Leprechaun.

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"it counts in our hearts" ?ºº?
“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.” Jack Kerouac.
“If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.” Aristotle.
"If you tried to give Rock and Roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." John Lennon
"I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous." Keith Richards
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"Hey Sean. We are the same height. That is neat."

This wasn't neat. He's off to the big Twinkie.
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^ Saw that yesterday and almost teared up.

Ramis was one of the most unassuming actors of alltime. He had such a commanding voice and was such a talented writer. A real shame. I remember the first time I saw Animal House and how much better it was then anything else at the time. Don't even get me started on Stripes. Bill Murray drove that movie, but Ramis made it possible and was so great in his part. Huge loss for Hollyweird.
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