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Harold Ramis

Highest Rated: 95% Ghostbusters (1984)

Lowest Rated: 4% Caddyshack II (1988)

Birthday: Nov 21, 1944

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Harold Ramis was one of the most versatile comic talents of his generation, as well as one of the most influential. His work in the 1970s with Second City and National Lampoon defined the direction that stage, television and film comedy would take in the 1980s, a period when he wrote, directed and/or co-starred in some of most profitable films of the era, including "National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978), "Caddyshack" (1980), "Stripes" (1981), "National Lampoon's Vacation" (1983) and "Ghostbusters" (1984). His signature film, "Groundhog Day" (1993), went on to become one of the most acclaimed films of the 1990s, not only regularly appearing on various lists of the best movies of all-time, but inspiring serious academic discussion of its philosophical underpinnings. By the 2000s, Ramis was a beloved elder statesman of film comedy; his avuncular acting appearances in Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up" (2007) and Jake Kasdan's "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" (2007), and his work as a director on the hit series "The Office" (NBC 2005-2013), were seen as his blessing of the new generation of comic filmmakers. Although Ramis had to retire following his film "Year One" (2009), due to his struggle with an autoimmune disorder that robbed him of the ability to walk, his death on February 24, 2014 still came as a shock to the comedy community and his fans.

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Highest-Rated Movies

95% 88% Ghostbusters Watchlist
94% 85% National Lampoon's Vacation
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94% 88% Groundhog Day Watchlist
91% 89% National Lampoon's Animal House
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90% 83% Knocked Up
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88% 68% Back to School
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88% 79% Stripes Watchlist 74% 57% Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story Watchlist
73% 57% Meatballs
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73% 38% I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
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Filmography

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We Are One 2017 Self Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance 55% 50% 2011 Executive Producer Year One 14% 24% 2009 Adam Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story 74% 57% 2007 L'Chai'm Actor Knocked Up 90% 83% 2007 Ben's Dad Actor I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With 73% 38% 2006 Executive Producer The Last Kiss 46% 59% 2006 Professor Bowler Actor The Ice Harvest 47% 43% 2005 Director American Storytellers 2003 Actor, Director I'm With Lucy 44% 2002 Jack Actor The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest 11% 49% 2002 Producer Analyze That 26% 39% 2002 Director, Writer Orange County 47% 61% 2002 Don Durkett Actor Bedazzled 50% 43% 2000 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Analyze This 69% 62% 1999 Director, Screenwriter Multiplicity 46% 49% 1996 Director, Producer Stuart Saves His Family 30% 53% 1995 Director Love Affair 28% 67% 1994 Sheldon Blumenthal Actor Groundhog Day 94% 88% 1993 Neurologist Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer Rover Dangerfield 17% 56% 1991 Writer Ghostbusters II 55% 61% 1989 Doctor Egon Spengler Actor, Writer Stealing Home 20% 78% 1988 Alan Appleby Actor Caddyshack II 4% 17% 1988 Screenwriter Baby Boom 67% 62% 1987 Steven Bochner Actor Club Paradise 11% 36% 1986 Director, Screenwriter
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