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Harold Ramis
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| Born | Harold Allen Ramis (1944-11-21)November 21, 1944 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | February 24, 2014(2014-02-24) (aged 69) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director, writer |
| Years active | 1969–2010 |
| Spouse(s) | Anne Plotkin (m. 1967–1984)Erica Mann (m. 1989–2014) |
| Children | 3 |
Harold Allen Ramis (November 21, 1944 – February 24, 2014) was an American comedic actor, director, producer and writer. His best known movie roles were as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981), both movies he co-wrote. He also wrote and directed Caddyshack (1980), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Groundhog Day (1993) and Analyze This (1999).
Ramis was born in Chicago, Illinois to a Jewish family. He was married to San
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Ghostbusters
1984 film by Ivan Reitman
This article is about the original 1984 film. For other uses, see Ghostbusters (disambiguation).
Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernaturalcomedy film directed bygd Ivan Reitman and written bygd Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, three eccentric parapsychologists who början a ghost-catching business in New York City. It also stars Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis, and features Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson, and William Atherton in supporting roles.
Based on his fascination with spirituality, Aykroyd conceived Ghostbusters as a project starring himself and John Belushi, in which they would venture through time and space battling supernatural threats. Following Belushi's death in 1982, and with Aykroyd's concept deemed financially impractical, Ramis was hired to help rewrite the script to set it in New York City and man it more realistic. It was the first
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It’s alarming just how quickly present can switch to past tense. News is currently spreading across the internet that 69-year-old Harold Ramis – Egon from the Ghostbusters films, director of National Lampoon’s Vacation and Multiplicity, writer/director of Caddyshack and Groundhog Dog – died earlier today. He had been battling auto-immune inflammatory vasculitis for the past four years, with complications from the rare blood vessel disease being the cause of death. He died in his Chicago home, surrounded by friends and family.
My first reaction was to check Ramis’ Wikipedia page to read more about his life and career, which is when the news really hit me. I had just found out, yet Wikipedia had already changed all of its verb tenses to refer to Ramis in the past tense, beginning with, “Harold Allen Ramis was [emphasis mine] an American director and actor.” No, not “was.” I grew up on countless viewings of