Brian Doyle-Murray
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| Brian Doyle-Murray | |
 Brian Doyle-Murray, circa 2000 |
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| Birth name | Brian Murray |
| Born | October 31, 1945 (age 61) Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Other name(s) | Brian Doyle Murphy Brian Doyle Murray |
| Years active | 1970-2007 |
| Spouse(s) | Christina Stauffer (2000-Present) |
| Official site | None |
| Notable roles | Lou Loomis in Caddyshack Frank Shirley in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Jack Ruby in JFK Buster Green in Groundhog Day |
Brian Doyle-Murray (born October 31, 1945) is an American comedian, screenwriter and character actor from Chicago.
Murray is the oldest brother of actors Bill Murray, Joel Murray and John Murray. Doyle-Murray uses his hyphenated name (Doyle is his grandmother's maiden name) because there is another actor with the same name. One of his sisters, Nancy, is an Adrian Dominican nun in Illinois.
Murray has appeared in numerous films and television shows since the 1970s, including as a featured player on NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1979-1980 and from 1981 to 1982. He also was a writer for Jean Doumanian's disastrous sixth season from 1980 to 1981, making him one of the few cast members to work for all three producers of SNL (Lorne Michaels, Jean Doumanian, and Dick Ebersol). He was a regular performer on the National Lampoon Radio Hour, a comedy program syndicated nationally to some 600 stations from 1973 to 1975. Co-workers on the Radio Hour included Richard Belzer, John Belushi, Gilda Radner and his younger brother Bill. He appears in most films that star his brother, Bill Murray.
He's a frequent television guest star, most recently on a string of Yes, Dear episodes playing Mr. Savitsky. He was also Mel Sanger, the bubble boy's dad, on Seinfeld, and played Joe Hackett's cranky high school baseball coach on a 1992 episode of Wings.
He is also a voice actor acting as the Flying Dutchman on Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants, he also plays Coach Gills on Cartoon Network's My Gym Partner's A Monkey, and as Maggie's dad on Disney Channel's The Buzz on Maggie. He has also appeared in episodes of Family Guy.
He was referenced on Arrested Development in the episode Missing Kitty. Apparently, he is the only person James Lipton, as the Warden, has ever called a coward.
[edit] Celebrity impersonations on SNL
- Albert Einstein
- Colonel Tom Parker
- Howard Baker
- Jerry Falwell
- Jody Powell
- Ken Anderson
- Leopoldo Galtieri
- Rod Serling
- Sid Vicious
[edit] Selected filmography
- Caddyshack (1980) – also co-writer
- Club Paradise (1986)
- Scrooged (1988)
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
- JFK (1991)
- Wayne's World (1992)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- Frosty Returns (1992)
- The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998)
- The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998)
- The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1999)
Brian also redid the famous voiceover at the beginning of Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain ride, which concludes with "This here's the wildest ride in the wilderness!"
[edit] External links
| Preceded by Charles Rocket and Gail Matthius |
Weekend Update as SNL NewsBreak 1981–1982 |
Succeeded by Brad Hall |
