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Brian Doyle-Murray

Brian Doyle-Murray

Overview
Brian Doyle-Murray (born October 31, 1945) is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scenarists or scriptwriters are people in a film crew who write/create the screenplays from which films and television programs are made....

, actor
Actor
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 and voice artist. An alumnus of Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night sketch comedy and variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975, under a slightly different title. The show features a regular cast of comedy actors, joined by a guest host and musical act...

, he is the older brother of actor/comedian Bill Murray
Bill Murray
William James "Bill" Murray is an American actor and comedian. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live, and went on to star in films including Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.-Early years:Murray, the fifth...

  and has acted together with him in several films, including Caddyshack
Caddyshack
Caddyshack is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney. It stars Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray...

, Scrooged
Scrooged
Scrooged is a 1988 comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol. The film was produced and directed by Richard Donner, and the cinematography was by Michael Chapman. The screenplay was written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue...

, Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters II is a 1989 sci-fi comedy film and sequel to Ghostbusters. Produced and directed by Ivan Reitman, Ghostbusters II follows the further adventures of a group of parapsychologists and their organization which combats paranormal activities . The sequel was originally to be called...

and Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day (film)
Groundhog Day is a 1993 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. It was written by Ramis and Danny Rubin, and based on a story by Rubin...

.

Murray, one of nine children, was born Brian Murray in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lucille (née
Married and maiden names
A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....

 Collins), a mail room clerk, and Edward J.
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Brian Doyle-Murray (born October 31, 1945) is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 comedian
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scenarists or scriptwriters are people in a film crew who write/create the screenplays from which films and television programs are made....

, actor
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 and voice artist. An alumnus of Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night sketch comedy and variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975, under a slightly different title. The show features a regular cast of comedy actors, joined by a guest host and musical act...

, he is the older brother of actor/comedian Bill Murray
Bill Murray
William James "Bill" Murray is an American actor and comedian. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live, and went on to star in films including Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.-Early years:Murray, the fifth...

  and has acted together with him in several films, including Caddyshack
Caddyshack
Caddyshack is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney. It stars Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray...

, Scrooged
Scrooged
Scrooged is a 1988 comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol. The film was produced and directed by Richard Donner, and the cinematography was by Michael Chapman. The screenplay was written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue...

, Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters II is a 1989 sci-fi comedy film and sequel to Ghostbusters. Produced and directed by Ivan Reitman, Ghostbusters II follows the further adventures of a group of parapsychologists and their organization which combats paranormal activities . The sequel was originally to be called...

and Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day (film)
Groundhog Day is a 1993 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. It was written by Ramis and Danny Rubin, and based on a story by Rubin...

.

Life


Murray, one of nine children, was born Brian Murray in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lucille (née
Married and maiden names
A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....

 Collins), a mail room clerk, and Edward J. Murray II, a lumber
Lumber
Lumber or timber is wood that is used in any of its stages from felling through readiness for use as structural material for construction, or wood pulp for paper production....

 salesman. His parents were Irish American
Irish American
Irish Americans are citizens of the United States who trace their ancestry to Ireland. A total of 36,495,800 Americans reported Irish ancestry in the 2006 American Community Survey. The only self-reported ancestral group larger than Irish Americans are German Americans...

 and Catholic
Catholic
The word Catholic is derived from the Greek adjective , meaning "universal". In the context of Christian ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages. For some, the term "Catholic Church" refers to the church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, made up of the Latin Rite and the 22...

. He is the older brother of actor
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

s Bill Murray
Bill Murray
William James "Bill" Murray is an American actor and comedian. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live, and went on to star in films including Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.-Early years:Murray, the fifth...

, Joel Murray
Joel Murray
Joel Murray is an American actor who has starred in film and on television.-Early life:Murray, one of nine children, was born and raised in Wilmette, Illinois , the son of Lucille , a mail room clerk, and Edward J. Murray II, a lumber salesman. Murray, along with his siblings, grew up in an Irish...

 and John Murray
John Murray (actor)
John Murray is an American actor.He has eight siblings, including actors Bill Murray, Joel Murray, and Brian Doyle-Murray. A sister, Nancy, is an Adrian Dominican Sister in Michigan who travels around the country portraying St. Catherine of Siena...

. Doyle-Murray uses his hyphenated name (Doyle is his grandmother's maiden name) because there is another actor
Brian Murray
Brian Murray is a revered Tony Award-nominated South African actor and theatre director. He was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2004....

 with the same name. A sister, Nancy, is an Adrian Dominican Sister in Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. It was named after Lake Michigan, whose name is a French adaptation of the Ojibwe term mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

 who travels around the country portraying St. Catherine of Siena
Catherine of Siena
Saint Catherine of Siena, O.P. was a tertiary of the Dominican Order, and a Scholastic philosopher and theologian. She also worked to bring the Papacy back to Rome from its displacement in France, and to establish peace among the Italian city-states. She was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church in 1970...

.

Career


Murray has appeared in numerous films and television shows since the 1970s, including as a featured player on NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...

's Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night sketch comedy and variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975, under a slightly different title. The show features a regular cast of comedy actors, joined by a guest host and musical act...

from 1979 to 1980 and from 1981 to 1982. He also was a writer for Jean Doumanian's sixth season from 1980 to 1981, making him one of the few cast members to work for all three producers of SNL (Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels
Lorne Michaels, CM is a Canadian television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.-Early life:...

, Jean Doumanian
Jean Doumanian
Jean Doumanian is an American producer.Doumanian is probably most well known for her short reign as producer of Saturday Night Live between November 1980 and March 1981...

, and Dick Ebersol
Dick Ebersol
Duncan "Dick" Ebersol is an American radio and TV executive. He was protégé of ABC Sports czar Roone Arledge and was a key NBC executive in the launching of Saturday Night Live in 1975 and which he produced from April 1981 to May 1985. He became president of NBC Sports in April 1989...

). He was a regular performer on The National Lampoon Radio Hour
The National Lampoon Radio Hour
The National Lampoon Radio Hour was a comedy radio show which was created, produced and initially written by people from National Lampoon magazine. The show ran weekly, for a little over a year, from November 17th 1973 to December 28th 1974...

, a comedy program syndicated nationally to some 600 stations from 1973 to 1975. Co-workers on the Radio Hour included Richard Belzer
Richard Belzer
Richard Jay Belzer is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor, perhaps best known for his work as Sgt. John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit...

, John Belushi
John Belushi
John Adam Belushi was an American comedian, actor, and musician notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Animal House, and The Blues Brothers...

, Gilda Radner
Gilda Radner
Gilda Susan Radner was an American comedienne and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award...

 and his younger brother Bill. He appears in most films that star his brother, Bill Murray
Bill Murray
William James "Bill" Murray is an American actor and comedian. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live, and went on to star in films including Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.-Early years:Murray, the fifth...

. However, he has also landed a series of roles in other films. He memorably appeared as Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase
Cornelius Crane “Chevy” Chase is an American Emmy Award-winning comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase worked as a professional musician as well as other jobs before moving towards comedy and working with the National Lampoon...

's uptight boss in 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is a 1989 Christmas comedy film directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik. It is the third installment in National Lampoon's Vacation film series, and is considered a holiday classic...

, and co-starred as an arcade business owner in the 1992 film version of Wayne's World
Wayne's World
Wayne's World was originally a recurring sketch from the NBC television series Saturday Night Live. It evolved from a segment titled "Wayne's Power Minute" on the CBC Television series It's Only Rock and Roll as the main character first appeared in that show...

. He also landed a small but pivotal role as assassin Jack Ruby
Jack Ruby
Jacob Rubenstein , who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was an American nightclub operator in Dallas, Texas. He was convicted on March 14, 1964, of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, two days after Oswald was arrested for the assassination of President John F....

 in 1991's JFK
JFK (film)
JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison...

. He was also seen in the 2002 Disney movie, Snow Dogs
Snow Dogs
Snow Dogs is a 2002 live-action movie, released in the USA on January 18, 2002 by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Brian Levant. It stars Cuba Gooding, Jr....

. His most recent role was a pivotal character in 2009's 17 Again
17 Again (film)
17 Again is a American fantasy comedy film from New Line Cinema directed by Burr Steers. The movie was released in the United States on April 17, 2009. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 11, 2009.-Plot:...

.

He is a frequent television guest star, most recently on a string of Yes, Dear
Yes, Dear
Yes, Dear is a television sitcom that aired from October 2, 2000 to February 15, 2006 on CBS.The series starred Anthony Clark, Jean Louisa Kelly, Mike O'Malley and Liza Snyder. Yes, Dear scored surprisingly solid ratings for CBS over the next four seasons, in spite of little to no promotion and a...

episodes playing Mr. Savitsky. He was also Mel Sanger, the bubble boy's dad, on Seinfeld
Seinfeld
Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. The eponymous series was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, with the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...

, and played Joe Hackett's cranky high school baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond...

 coach on a 1992 episode of Wings
Wings (TV series)
Wings was an American sitcom that ran on NBC from April 19, 1990, to May 21, 1997. Starring Tim Daly and Steven Weber as brothers Joe and Brian Hackett, the show was set at the fictional “Tom Nevers Field” airport, a small airport in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where the Hackett brothers operated...

. He was also a co-star of the Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
The Fox Broadcasting Company , commonly referred to as Fox , is an American television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, from 2004 to 2009 Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the 18–49 demographic...

 TV series Get a Life
Get a Life (TV series)
Get a Life is a television sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on the Fox Network from September 23, 1990, to March 8, 1992. The show starred Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy named Chris Peterson. Peterson lived in an apartment above his parents' garage...

from 1991 to 1992, and he had a recurring role as sports editor Stuart Franklin on the Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
The Fox Broadcasting Company , commonly referred to as Fox , is an American television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, from 2004 to 2009 Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the 18–49 demographic...

/UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States, being in production for over eleven years. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries. It was later owned by CBS Corporation. Its first night of broadcasting was...

 TV series Between Brothers
Between Brothers
Between Brothers is an American television situation comedy centered around four middle-class African American men in their late twenties, living in Chicago. It premiered on September 11, 1997 on Fox, with the second season airing on UPN, until March 2, 1999. The lead characters were portrayed...

from 1997 to 1999. He played Shawn Spencer
Shawn Spencer
Shawn Spencer is a fictional character on the American television dramedy Psych played by American actor James Roday. Taking advantage of his photographic memory, he poses as a psychic and works as a private detective who often consults with the Santa Barbara Police Department.He has been dating...

's grandfather on the episode "The Old and the Restless" on the USA Network
USA Network
USA Network is an American cable television channel launched in 1977. The channel shows a variety of original and second-run programming, from syndicated TV series to edited movies...

 TV Show Psych
Psych
Psych is an American comedy-drama television series created by Steve Franks and broadcast on USA Network. The show stars James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a young crime consultant for the Santa Barbara Police Department whose "heightened observational skills" and impressive detective instincts allow...

.

Murray is known for his gravelly voice and has voiced The Flying Dutchman on Nickelodeon's
Nickelodeon (TV channel)
Nickelodeon is an American cable television channel owned by Viacom. Since the mid-1990s and early 2000s Nickelodoen as a brand has expanded into other territories including Europe, the Middle-East, Russia and Asia.It is often referred to by its shortened name, Nick, a practice that dates back to...

 SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series and media franchise. It is currently Nickelodeon's highest rated show, the most distributed property of MTV Networks, and among Nicktoons Network's most-watched shows...

, a small role as the Grandfather on Lloyd in Space
Lloyd in Space
Lloyd in Space is an animated television series, created by Joe Ansolabehere and Paul Germain , and released in 2001. The pilot was written by Ansolabehere, Germain and Mark Drop...

,
Coach Gills on Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network (United States)
Cartoon Network is a cable television network created by Turner Broadcasting which primarily shows animated programming. The original American channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 with the Bugs Bunny short Rhapsody Rabbit being its first-ever aired program...

's My Gym Partner's A Monkey
My Gym Partner's a Monkey
My Gym Partner's a Monkey is an American animated television series created by Timothy and Julie McNally Cahill and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. The first episode of the series premiered on December 26, 2005, as a sneak peek into Cartoon Network's new shows for the following year...

, Captain K'nuckles on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack is an American animated television series produced for Cartoon Network that premiered on June 5, 2008...

and as Maggie's dad on Disney Channel
Disney Channel
Disney Channel is a cable television channel specializing in television programming for children through original series and movies as well as third party programming. It is marketed to mostly children; however, in recent years the diversity of viewers has increased with an older audience,...

's The Buzz on Maggie
The Buzz on Maggie
The Buzz on Maggie was a Disney Channel original comedy series created by Dave Polsky and directed by Dave Wasson that ran from June 2005 to August 2008. The show centered around a fly named Maggie Pesky; who dreamed of becoming a rock star.- Premise :...

. He has also appeared as "Salty" in the Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated television sitcom, created by Seth MacFarlane, for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family which consists of Peter, Lois, Meg, Chris, Stewie, and their pet dog Brian...

episode "A Fish out of Water
A Fish out of Water (Family Guy)
"A Fish out of Water" is an episode of Family Guy that first aired September 19, 2001. It guest stars Michael Chiklis, Ralph Garman, Brian Doyle-Murray as Salty, and Lisa Wilhoit. This episode is rated TV-PG L. It was the first episode to air after the September 11, 2001 Attacks.-Plot...

". He is the voice of Jack the barber on King of the Hill
King of the Hill
King of the Hill is an American animated series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, that ran from January 12, 1997 to September 13, 2009 on Fox. It centers on the Hills, a small-town Methodist family in Arlen, Texas...

. He is named as the only man James Lipton
James Lipton
James Lipton is an American writer, poet, composer, actor and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School in New York City. He is the executive producer, writer and host of the Bravo cable television series, Inside the Actors Studio, which debuted in 1994...

 has ever called a coward in an episode of Arrested Development
Arrested Development
Arrested Development is an American television sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The show is centered around the Bluths, a formerly wealthy, habitually dysfunctional family and is presented in a pseudo-documentary format, incorporating hand-held camera work,...

.

Celebrity impersonations on SNL

  • Albert Einstein
    Albert Einstein
    Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist. His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, explaining the perihelion advance of Mercury, prediction of the deflection of...

  • Colonel Tom Parker
    Colonel Tom Parker
    "Colonel" Thomas Andrew "Tom" Parker , born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, was a Dutch-born entertainment impresario known best as the manager of Elvis Presley. His management of Presley re-wrote the role of talent manager and was seen as central to the astonishing success of Presley's career...

  • Howard Baker
    Howard Baker
    Howard Henry Baker, Jr. is a former Senate Majority Leader, Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee, White House Chief of Staff, and a former United States Ambassador to Japan.Known in Washington, D.C...

  • Jerry Falwell
    Jerry Falwell
    Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. was an American evangelical Christian pastor, televangelist, and a conservative commentator. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia...

  • Jody Powell
  • Ken Anderson
  • Leopoldo Galtieri
    Leopoldo Galtieri
    Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli was an Argentine general and President of Argentina from 22 December 1981 to 18 June 1982, during the last military dictatorship. The death squad Intelligence Battalion 601 directly reported to him...

  • Rod Serling
    Rod Serling
    Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling was an American screenwriter and television producer, best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. He was known in the more secular community as being an atheist despite converting to Unitarianism...

  • Sid Vicious
    Sid Vicious
    Sid Vicious was an English musician best known as the bassist of the influential punk rock group Sex Pistols.- Early life :...


Filmography

  • Saturday Night Live
    Saturday Night Live
    Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night sketch comedy and variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975, under a slightly different title. The show features a regular cast of comedy actors, joined by a guest host and musical act...

    (TV series) (was a feature player from 1979–1980 and from 1981–1982; wrote for the show from 1980–1982)
  • Caddyshack
    Caddyshack
    Caddyshack is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney. It stars Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray...

    (1980) – also co-writer
  • Modern Problems
    Modern Problems
    Modern Problems is a 1981 comedy film written and directed by Ken Shapiro and starring Chevy Chase, Patti D'Arbanville and Dabney Coleman. The film grossed $26,154,211 in the United States. A DVD release of the film was issued in 2005.-Plot:...

    (1981)
  • National Lampoon's Vacation
    National Lampoon's Vacation
    National Lampoon's Vacation is a 1983 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Dana Barron and Anthony Michael Hall...

    (1983)
  • The Razor's Edge
    The Razor's Edge
    The Razor’s Edge is a book by W. Somerset Maugham published in 1944. Its epigraph reads, "The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard." —Katha-Upanishad....

    (1984)
  • Club Paradise
    Club Paradise
    Club Paradise is a 1986 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis starring Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, and Jimmy Cliff. The film reunites director/co-writer Ramis with most of his SCTV co-stars -- SCTV cast members Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Joe Flaherty, and Robin Duke play supporting...

    (1986)
  • Scrooged
    Scrooged
    Scrooged is a 1988 comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol. The film was produced and directed by Richard Donner, and the cinematography was by Michael Chapman. The screenplay was written by Mitch Glazer and Michael O'Donoghue...

    (1988)
  • Ghostbusters II
    Ghostbusters II
    Ghostbusters II is a 1989 sci-fi comedy film and sequel to Ghostbusters. Produced and directed by Ivan Reitman, Ghostbusters II follows the further adventures of a group of parapsychologists and their organization which combats paranormal activities . The sequel was originally to be called...

    (1989)
  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
    National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
    National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is a 1989 Christmas comedy film directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik. It is the third installment in National Lampoon's Vacation film series, and is considered a holiday classic...

    (1989)
  • JFK
    JFK (film)
    JFK is a 1991 American film directed by Oliver Stone. It examines the events leading to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and alleged subsequent cover-up, through the eyes of former New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison...

    (1991)
  • Get a Life
    Get a Life (TV series)
    Get a Life is a television sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on the Fox Network from September 23, 1990, to March 8, 1992. The show starred Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy named Chris Peterson. Peterson lived in an apartment above his parents' garage...

    (TV series) (1991–1992)
  • Wayne's World
    Wayne's World (film)
    Wayne's World is a 1992 comedy film starring Mike Myers as Wayne Campbell and Dana Carvey as Garth Algar, hosts of the Aurora, Illinois-based cable access television show Wayne's World...

    (1992)
  • Groundhog Day
    Groundhog Day (film)
    Groundhog Day is a 1993 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell. It was written by Ramis and Danny Rubin, and based on a story by Rubin...

    (1993)
  • Cabin Boy
    Cabin Boy
    Cabin Boy is a 1994 fantasy comedy film directed by Adam Resnick and produced by Tim Burton which starred comedian Chris Elliott. Elliott co-wrote the film with Adam Resnick...

    (1994)
  • Smart Guy
    Smart Guy
    Smart Guy is an NAACP Image Award-nominated American sitcom created by Danny Kallis. The series ran on The WB for three seasons from April 2, 1997 to May 16, 1999. Reruns of the program currently air on BET in the United States and Canada.-Premise:...

  • Frosty Returns
    Frosty Returns
    Frosty Returns is a animated christmas television special featuring the character Frosty the Snowman. It first aired on December 1, 1995. The special is not a direct sequel to the original 1969 special, and the two were produced by different companies Frosty Returns is a animated christmas...

    (1992)
  • Jury Duty (film)
    Jury Duty (film)
    Jury Duty is a 1995 comedy film directed by John Fortenberry and starring Pauly Shore, Tia Carrere, Stanley Tucci, Brian Doyle-Murray, Shelley Winters, and Abe Vigoda.The film was Billie Bird's last screen appearance.- Plot:...

    (1995)
  • Waiting for Guffman
    Waiting for Guffman
    Waiting for Guffman is a musical mockumentary starring, co-written and directed by Christopher Guest that was released in 1997. Many of its cast appeared in several of the subsequent mockumentaries directed by Guest...

    (1996)
  • Between Brothers
    Between Brothers
    Between Brothers is an American television situation comedy centered around four middle-class African American men in their late twenties, living in Chicago. It premiered on September 11, 1997 on Fox, with the second season airing on UPN, until March 2, 1999. The lead characters were portrayed...

    (TV series) (1997–1999)
  • As Good As It Gets
    As Good as It Gets
    As Good as It Gets is a 1997 comedy film directed by James L. Brooks starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and won for Best Actor and Best Actress...

    (film) (1997)
  • Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
    Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
    Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story is a direct-to-video release from Disney Home Entertainment. It chronicles the story of Mowgli from the time he was 5 living among humans to when he was 12 and rediscovering humans again....

    (1998)
  • The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998)
  • The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
    The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (film)
    The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue is the second part of The Brave Little Toaster film trilogy. A production of Hyperion/Kushner-Locke, it was originally released in 1999 in North America by Walt Disney Home Video...

    (1999)
  • SpongeBob SquarePants
    SpongeBob SquarePants
    SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series and media franchise. It is currently Nickelodeon's highest rated show, the most distributed property of MTV Networks, and among Nicktoons Network's most-watched shows...

    (1999)
  • Bedazzled
    Bedazzled
    Bedazzled is the title of two comic films:*Bedazzled *Bedazzled , a remake of the 1967 filmOther uses:* Bedazzled Records, a record label...

    (2000)
  • Getting Hal  (2001)
  • Snow Dogs
    Snow Dogs
    Snow Dogs is a 2002 live-action movie, released in the USA on January 18, 2002 by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by Brian Levant. It stars Cuba Gooding, Jr....

    (2002)
  • Teamo Supremo
    Teamo Supremo
    Teamo Supremo is an animated television series created by Disney. Animated in the limited animation style pioneered by Jay Ward and Hanna-Barbera, predecessors which inspired its style, it tells of three superhero kids: Captain Crandall, Skate Lad, and Rope Girl...

    (2002)
  • The Buzz on Maggie
    The Buzz on Maggie
    The Buzz on Maggie was a Disney Channel original comedy series created by Dave Polsky and directed by Dave Wasson that ran from June 2005 to August 2008. The show centered around a fly named Maggie Pesky; who dreamed of becoming a rock star.- Premise :...

    (2005)
  • My Gym Partner's a Monkey
    My Gym Partner's a Monkey
    My Gym Partner's a Monkey is an American animated television series created by Timothy and Julie McNally Cahill and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. The first episode of the series premiered on December 26, 2005, as a sneak peek into Cartoon Network's new shows for the following year...

    (2005)
  • Jackie Chan Adventures
    Jackie Chan Adventures
    Jackie Chan Adventures is an animated television series chronicling the adventures of a fictionalized version of action film star Jackie Chan. Many of the episodes contain references to Chan's actual works. This series ran on Kids' WB from September 9 2000 to July 8 2005 for a total of 95 episodes,...

    (2000)
  • Daddy Day Camp
    Daddy Day Camp
    Daddy Day Camp also known as Daddy Day Care 2 is a 2007 film comedy directed by Fred Savage. A sequel to Daddy Day Care, all returning characters were recast, with Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding, Jr. assuming the lead role of Charlie Hinton, previously portrayed by Eddie Murphy...

    (2007)
  • The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
    The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
    The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack is an American animated television series produced for Cartoon Network that premiered on June 5, 2008...

    (2008)
  • 17 Again
    17 Again (film)
    17 Again is a American fantasy comedy film from New Line Cinema directed by Burr Steers. The movie was released in the United States on April 17, 2009. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 11, 2009.-Plot:...

    (2009)
  • The Goode Family
    The Goode Family
    The Goode Family is an American animated sitcom that aired on ABC and will air on Comedy Central. The show was created by Mike Judge.On August 15, 2009, ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson stated that the show, along with Surviving Suburbia, has officially been cancelled due to low ratings...

    (2009)

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