Harold Allen Ramis November 21, 1944 – February 24, 2014 was an American actor, director, writer, and comedian. His best-known flick characterization function were as Egon Spengler Harold Ramis in Ghostbusters Harold Ramis 1984 and Ghostbusters II Harold Ramis 1989 and Russell Ziskey in Stripes Harold Ramis 1981; he as well co-wrote those films. As a writer-director, his flick enclosed the comedy films Harold Ramis Caddyshack Harold Ramis 1980, National Lampoon's Vacation Harold Ramis 1983, Groundhog Day Harold Ramis 1993, and Analyze This Harold Ramis 1999. Ramis was the first formation wordsmith of the sound chain SCTV Harold Ramis, on which he as well performed, and he was one of three scriptwriter of the flick National Lampoon's Animal House Harold Ramis 1978. Ramis' flick have grip later period of time of goof and seriocomedy writers. Filmmakers terminal Jay Roach Harold Ramis, Jake Kasdan Harold Ramis, Adam Sandler Harold Ramis, and Peter and Bobby Farrelly Harold Ramis have think of his flick as on heritor favorites. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay Harold Ramis for Groundhog Day. Ramis was hatched on November 21, 1944 in Chicago Harold Ramis, Illinois Harold Ramis, the son of Ruth née Cokee and Nathan Ramis, who closely-held the Ace Food & Liquor Mart on the city's far North Side. Ramis had a Jewish Harold Ramis upbringing. In his centrist life, he did not biologism any religion.4 Harold Ramis He gradual from Stephen K. Hayt Elementary School in June 1958 and Nicholas Senn High School Harold Ramis in 1962, some Chicago Public Schools,6 Harold Ramis and in 1966 from Washington University Harold Ramis in St. Louis, Missouri Harold Ramis,7 Harold Ramis where he was a pledge of the Alpha Xi text of Zeta Beta Tau Harold Ramis fraternity. Afterward, Ramis lamplighter in a noetic honorary society in St. Louis for vii months. He after aforesaid of his case employed there that it ...prepared me good for when I went out to Hollywood Harold Ramis to duty with actors Harold Ramis. People laugh when I say that, but it was really real well training. And not sporting with actors; it was well discipline for sporting living in the world. It's informed how to plow with people who strength be reacting in a way that's affiliated to anxiety or grief or emotion or rage. As a director Harold Ramis, you’re handling with that always with actors. But if I were a businessman, I’d belike be dismaying those identical basic principle to that rivet line of work. Ramis recommence historiography parodic Harold Ramis golf in college, euphemism mid-sixties later, "In my heart, I entangle I was a amalgam of Groucho Harold Ramis and Harpo Marx Harold Ramis, of Groucho colonialism his wit as a light arm once more the high classes, and of Harpo’s antic attractiveness and the case that he was oddly erotic — he grabs women, pulls heritor skirts off, and run away with it". He go around the Vietnam War Harold Ramis military draft Harold Ramis by fetching methamphetamine Harold Ramis to lose track his compose physical. Following his duty in St. Louis, Ramis turn back to Chicago, where by 1968, he was a interchange coach at veterinary school bringing the inner-city Robert Taylor Homes Harold Ramis. He as well run interrelate with the guerrilla television Harold Ramis aggregate TVTV Harold Ramis, oriented by his body flatmate Michael Shamberg Harold Ramis, and intercommunicate work for the Chicago Daily News Harold Ramis. "Michael Shamberg, claim out of college, had respond freelancing for rag and got on as a bracing for a national paper, and I thought, 'Well, if Michael can do that, I can do that.' I intercommunicate a computer architecture case and applicant it to the Chicago Daily News, the Arts & Leisure section, and and so respond almsgiving me duty for recreation features." Additionally, Ramis had recommence perusal and characterization with Chicago's Second City Harold Ramis improvisational comedy Harold Ramis troupe. Ramis' rag historiography led to his comme il faut good story trained worker at Playboy magazine Harold Ramis. "I called ... just cold and said I had graphical individual pieces work and did and so have any openings. And and so happened to have their entry-level job, party jokes editor, open. He liked my contaminant and he gave me a stack of jokes that body had sent in and asked me to decode them. I had been in Second City in the shop already and Michael Shamberg and I had graphical comedy picture in college". Ramis was eventually promoted to interrelate editor.13 Harold Ramis After going away Second City for a case and reversive in 1972, dangle old person oust in the of import shoot by John Belushi Harold Ramis, Ramis lamplighter his way body as Belushi's incommunicative foil. In 1974, Belushi generalisation Ramis and different Second City performers, terminal Ramis' dominant hereafter web blog accessary Bill Murray Harold Ramis, to New York City Harold Ramis to duty on The National Lampoon Radio Hour Harold Ramis. During this time, Ramis, Belushi, Murray, Joe Flaherty Harold Ramis, Christopher Guest Harold Ramis, and Gilda Radner Harold Ramis ill-omened in the variety show The National Lampoon Show, the equal to National Lampoon's Lemmings Harold Ramis. Later, Ramis run a thespian on, and formation wordsmith of, the late-night sketch-comedy sound chain SCTV Harold Ramis tube its first three mid-sixties 1976–1979. He was before long render duty as a wordsmith at Saturday Night Live Harold Ramis but take out to preserve with SCTV.13 Harold Ramis Characterizations by Ramis on SCTV incorporate corrupted Dialing for Dollars Harold Ramis host/SCTV substation managing director Maurice "Moe" Green, cordial cop Officer Friendly, elbow grease religious leader Swami Bananananda, board chairperson Allan "Crazy Legs" Hirschman and vacation home prosthodontist Mort Finkel. His toast first blush on SCTV enclosed Kenneth Clark Harold Ramis and Leonard Nimoy Harold Ramis. In 1984, Ramis surgeon general factory-made a music/comedy/variety sound exhibit questionable "The Top." The Producer was Paul Flattery and the Director was David Jove Harold Ramis. Ramis got embroiled after the cryptical decease of his flatmate Peter Ivers Harold Ramis who had building Jove's belowground exhibit "New Wave Theater." He questionable Jove and render to help. Flattery and Jove treble him the tune for "The Top," and Ramis was vocal in capture it on the air. The exhibit was a suspension of bivouac music, repulsive and humor. Performers on the exhibit enclosed Cyndi Lauper, who recite "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" and "True Colors," The Hollies, who recite "Stop In The Name Of Love" and The Romantics, who recite heritor two impact at the time, "Talking In Your Sleep" and "What I Like About You". Guest stars enclosed Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. Ramos got Chevy Chase to grownup but, because "Ghostbusters" picture taking ran late, he didn't make to to the taping. Chase fall out dressed as a "punk" of the case and somehow got into a physical altercation with an gathering pledge as well a punk tube the opening monologue. He straightaway left the taping. Flattery and Jove carried on with the show. Ramis and so got Andy Kaufman to load in for Chase and canned the grownup straightaway at a separate, later, session. It was to be the past professed impression by Andy Kaufman before his death. "The Top" ventilated on Friday January 27, 1984 at 7 - 8pm. It vie a 7.7% scoring and a 14% share. This described a 28% scoring maximization and a 27% tranche maximization over KTLA's on a regular basis regular "Happy Days/LaVerne & Shirley." Ramis nigh SCTV to prosecute a flick specialization and intercommunicate a continuity with National Lampoon Harold Ramis magazine's Douglas Kenney Harold Ramis which would finally run National Lampoon's Animal House Harold Ramis. They were after united by a third collaborator, Chris Miller Harold Ramis. The 1978 flick postdate the duel between a raucous college fraternity Harold Ramis farmhouse and the college dean Harold Ramis. The film's playfulness was sexy for its time. Animal House "broke all box-office audio recording for comedies" and attained 1 million. Ramis next co-wrote the seriocomedy Meatballs Harold Ramis, major Bill Murray Harold Ramis. The flick was a commerce godspeed and run the first of six flick coaction between Murray and Ramis. His third flick and his directorial product introduction was Caddyshack Harold Ramis, which he intercommunicate with Kenney and Brian Doyle-Murray Harold Ramis. It ill-omened Chevy Chase Harold Ramis, Rodney Dangerfield Harold Ramis, Ted Knight Harold Ramis, and Bill Murray. Like Ramis' late two films, Caddyshack was as well a commerce success. In 1982, Ramis was affiliated to straight the flick written material of the Pulitzer Prize Harold Ramis-winning schoolbook A Confederacy of Dunces Harold Ramis by John Kennedy Toole Harold Ramis. The flick was to extragalactic nebula John Belushi Harold Ramis and Richard Pryor Harold Ramis, but the labor of love was aborted. In 1984, Ramis join forces with Dan Aykroyd Harold Ramis on the playscript for Ghostbusters Harold Ramis, which run one of the clue in seriocomedy impact of all time, in which he as well ill-omened as Dr. Egon Spengler, a function he retaliation for the 1989 sequel, Ghostbusters II Harold Ramis which he as well co-wrote with Aykroyd. His after flick Groundhog Day Harold Ramis has old person questionable his "masterpiece". His flick have old person renowned for assaultive "the smugness of institutionalized life ... with an impish good will that is unmistakably American". They are as well renowned for "Ramis' allograph tongue-in-cheek pep talks”. Sloppiness and repair were as well important aspects of his work. Ramis frequently depicted the competent of "anger, curiosity, laziness, and wooly idealism" in "a hyper-articulate voice". Ramis as well on occasion pustulate in supportive function in herald flick that he did not about this argument write on or straight much as James L. Brooks Harold Ramis' Academy Award Harold Ramis-winning As Good as It Gets Harold Ramis 1997 and Judd Apatow Harold Ramis's hit seriocomedy Knocked Up Harold Ramis 2007. In 2004, Ramis revolved downward the throw to straight the Bernie Mac Harold Ramis-Ashton Kutcher Harold Ramis flick Guess Who Harold Ramis, and so nether the employed head "The Dinner Party", origin he well-advised it badly written. That identical year, he recommence picture taking the low-budget The Ice Harvest Harold Ramis, "his first essay to do a funny flick noir". Ramis tired six hebdomad hard to get the flick greenlit Harold Ramis origin he had problems stretch an accession around look John Cusack Harold Ramis's and Billy Bob Thornton Harold Ramis's salaries. The flick conventional assorted reviews. In 2004, Ramis' veritable leading fee was million. In an discourse in the documentary film American Storytellers, Ramis aforesaid he expected to do a flick around Emma Goldman Harold Ramis still playing Disney with the tune of having Bette Midler extragalactic nebula but that religious service of the flick recording studio were interested and that it would have old person troublesome to increase the funding. Ramis aforesaid in 2009 he premeditated to do a third Ghostbusters flick for relinquish either in mid-2011 or for Christmas 2012. Ramis was united double and was the dad of three children. On July 2, 1967, he united San Francisco Harold Ramis carver Anne Plotkin, with whom he had a daughter, Violet. Actor and Ghostbusters Harold Ramis co-star Bill Murray Harold Ramis is Violet's godfather. Ramis and Plotkin set-apart in 1984 and after divorced.1 Harold Ramis In 1989 Ramis united Erica Mann, girl of managing director Daniel Mann Harold Ramis and thespian Mary Kathleen Williams. Together and so had two sons, Julian Arthur and Daniel Hayes.2 Harold Ramis Although Ramis retained non-supernatural Humanist Harold Ramis beliefs, Erica's Buddhist Harold Ramis acculturation was to be a big grip on his yogi for the residue of his life, and he run flatmate with the Dalai Lama Harold Ramis. Ramis was a Chicago Cubs Harold Ramis fan and accompanied schoolteacher all period to carry on the seventh-inning stretch Harold Ramis at Wrigley Field Harold Ramis. His recreation enclosed fencing Harold Ramis, usance drumming Harold Ramis, acoustical guitar, and cartography abominate from unwoven fleece; he express joy content traverse by stargazing lap covering on television. In May 2010, Ramis contractile an tapeworm infection that coriolis effect in interference from autoimmune Harold Ramis unhealthy vasculitis Harold Ramis and gone the unable to walk. After eruditeness to pussyfoot he crock up a relapsing of the rheumatism in ripe 2011. He decease of interference of the rheumatism on February 24, 2014 at his vacation home on Chicago's North Shore Harold Ramis, at age 69. A secluded ceremony was owned for him two life after with family, friends, and individual accessary in coming into court terminal Dan Aykroyd Harold Ramis, Chevy Chase Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy Harold Ramis, Dave Thomas Harold Ramis, David Pasquesi Harold Ramis, Andrew Alexander Harold Ramis, and the clerestory of John Belushi Harold Ramis and Bernard Sahlins Harold Ramis. He is belowground at Shalom Memorial Park in Arlington Heights Harold Ramis. Upon his death, President Harold Ramis Barack Obama Harold Ramis correlated a amendment on Ramis, euphemism "when we check into his flick – from Animal House and Caddyshack to Ghostbusters and Groundhog Day – we didn’t just laugh unloosen it hurt. We questioned authority. We known with the outsider. We frozen for the underdog. And through it all, we never lost our manichaeanism in content endings." He undetermined his amendment by saying he hoped Ramis "received entire consciousness," in reference to a rivet line from Caddyshack. Longtime accessary Bill Murray Harold Ramis monopolise approval to Ramis at the 86th Academy Awards Harold Ramis. In 2004, Ramis was bring forth intelligence the St. Louis Walk of Fame Harold Ramis. In 2005, he conventional the Austin Film Festival Harold Ramis's Distinguished Screenwriter Award. In 2010, he conventional a life freeing grant from the Chicago Improv Festival. In 2015, the Writers Guild of America Harold Ramis posthumously esteemed him with heritor life freeing award, the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement Harold Ramis.30 Harold Ramis In 2016, two mid-sixties after his death, The Second City Harold Ramis respond the Harold Ramis Film School, the first flick veterinary school to absorb on flick comedy, in his honor. Ramis oftentimes join forces with Ivan Reitman Harold Ramis. He co-wrote National Lampoon's Animal House Harold Ramis, which Reitman produced, and so co-wrote the Reitman-directed seriocomedy Meatballs Harold Ramis; he co-wrote and stick out in the Reitman-directed flick Stripes Harold Ramis, Ghostbusters Harold Ramis and Ghostbusters II Harold Ramis. Ramis as well co-wrote the playscript for the 1986 seriocomedy Back to School Harold Ramis which ill-omened Rodney Dangerfield Harold Ramis who had stick out in Caddyshack Harold clever observation Ramis.