Bill Murray
- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- September 21, 1950 in Wilmette, Illinois, USA
- Active Years
- 1953–2026 (74 Years)
- Total Credits
- 217 credits in database
Acting Born Sep 21, 1950 Wilmette, Illinois, USA 217 credits
Biography
Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. Born on September 21, 1950, in Wilmette, Illinois, USA, he is known for his deadpan delivery in various roles. Murray has frequently collaborated with directors such as Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, and Jim Jarmusch. He has earned numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards, as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. Murray was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2016.
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Career overview
Bill Murray is an American actor known for his work in various film genres. He has collaborated with several directors, including Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, and Jim Jarmusch. Murray's acting career spans a range of roles in studio comedies and independent dramas.
Murray has appeared in numerous films, with over 200 known credits. His acting style is characterized by a deadpan delivery. He has been recognized with several awards, including a BAFTA Award, two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards. Murray was also nominated for an Academy Award.
In addition to his film work, Murray has been associated with the popular television show 'Saturday Night Live'. He is a comedy icon, known for his characters and movie classics. Murray was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2016.
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Diamond
The Phoenician SchemeJohn Candy: I Like MeRiff RaffThe FriendSNL50: The Homecoming Concert
Ghostbusters: Frozen EmpireDEVOEric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023
Ant-Man and the Wasp: QuantumaniaSpirit of GolfFranz Klammer - The Ski "Kaiser" Will Be 70
The Greatest Beer Run Ever
Ghostbusters: AfterlifeThe French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening SunThe NowNew Worlds, The Cradle of CivilizationNew Worlds, The Cradle of Civilization · Producer
Reunited ApartOn the RocksBelushiCleanin' Up the Town: Remembering GhostbustersPicture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine
Zombieland: Double TapThe Movies That Made UsThe Dead Don't DieCola WarsFantastic Mr. Murray
Isle of DogsAlways at The CarlyleStudio 54For The Fun Of The GameThe Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man
The Bill Murray Experience
The Jungle BookVice PrincipalsAngie TribecaGhostbusters'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Hot OnesAlohaParneviksRock the KasbahA Very Murray Christmas
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonLate Night with Seth MeyersThe Grand Budapest HotelDumb and Dumber To
Anthony Bourdain: Parts UnknownAlpha HouseA Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
Moonrise KingdomFinal Cut: Ladies and GentlemenHyde Park on Hudson
Passion Play
The Women of SNLBehind Jim JarmuschGet LowThe Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited'Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenParks and RecreationFantastic Mr. FoxZombielandThe Limits of Control
Markus LanzGet SmartCity of EmberSaturday Night Live Weekend Update ThursdayElvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
The Graham Norton ShowThe Darjeeling LimitedFCU: Fact Checkers UnitEric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
El hormigueroGarfield: A Tail of Two KittiesBuy the Ticket, Take the Ride
Iron Chef AmericaAnthony Bourdain: No ReservationsBroken FlowersThis Is an AdventureSaturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
GarfieldThe Life Aquatic with Steve ZissouCoffee and CigarettesLost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation'This Old Cub
Jimmy Kimmel Live!Lost in TranslationCan't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles
The Sweet SpotGroundhog Day: The Weight of Time
The Royal TenenbaumsOsmosis JonesBanzaiCharlie’s Angels: Getting G’d UpSpeaking of Sex
Charlie's AngelsThe Making of 'Rushmore'HamletMichael Jordan to the Max
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary SpecialGhostbusters 1999Cradle Will RockCaddyshack: The 19th HoleSaturday Night Live: Christmas
Wild ThingsRushmoreWith Friends Like These
The ViewThe Man Who Knew Too Little
Full Filmography
217 titles- Diamond (2026)
- The Phoenician Scheme (2025) as God
- John Candy: I Like Me (2025) as Self - Mainstage Cast, The Second City
- Riff Raff (2025) as Lefty
- The Friend (2025) as Walter
- SNL50: The Homecoming Concert (2025) as Self
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (2025) as Self
- Not So Fast, My Friend: A Lee Corso Special (2025) as Self (archive footage)
- Christmas in Nashville (2025) as Self
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) as Peter Venkman
- DEVO (2024) as Phil Connors (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023 (2024) as Self
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) as Lord Krylar
- Spirit of Golf (2023) as Self
- Franz Klammer - The Ski "Kaiser" Will Be 70 (2023) as Self (archive footage)
- The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022) as The Colonel
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) as Peter Venkman
- The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) as Arthur Howitzer, Jr.
- The Now (2021) as Dr. Robert Flaherty
- New Worlds, The Cradle of Civilization (2021) as Self
- New Worlds, The Cradle of Civilization (2021) Producer
- Reunited Apart (2020) as Self
- On the Rocks (2020) as Felix
- Belushi (2020) as Self (archive footage)
- Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2020) as Self (archive footage)
- Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine (2020) as Self
- Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019 (2020) as Self
- Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) as Bill Murray
- The Movies That Made Us (2019) as Peter Venkman (archive footage)
- The Dead Don't Die (2019) as Chief Cliff Robertson
- Cola Wars (2019) as Self (archive footage)
- Fantastic Mr. Murray (2019) as Self - Portrait Subject (archive footage)
- Loopers: The Caddie's Long Walk (2019) as Narrator
- Isle of Dogs (2018) as Boss (voice)
- Always at The Carlyle (2018) as Self
- Studio 54 (2018) as Self (archive footage)
- For The Fun Of The Game (2018) as Self
- The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man (2018) as Himself
- TVTV: Video Revolutionaries (2018) as Self
- Love, Gilda (2018) as Self (archive footage)
- The Bill Murray Experience (2017) as Himself
- The Jungle Book (2016) as Baloo (voice)
- Vice Principals (2016) as Principal Welles
- Angie Tribeca (2016) as Vic Deakins
- Ghostbusters (2016) as Martin Heiss
- '85: The Greatest Team in Football History (2016) as Self
- Hot Ones (2015) as Self
- Aloha (2015) as Carson Welch
- Parneviks (2015) as Self
- Rock the Kasbah (2015) as Richie Lanz
- A Very Murray Christmas (2015) as Bill Murray
- A Very Murray Christmas (2015) Writer
- A Very Murray Christmas (2015) Executive Producer
- MLB Network Presents (2015) as Self (archive footage)
- Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015) as Self - Actor
- Thank You, Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon (2015) as Self
- Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom' (2015) as Self / Mr. Bishop
- Moonrise Kingdom Extras - Eleven iPhone Videos by Edward Norton. (2015) as Self
- "That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To' (2015) as Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self - Guest
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) as M. Ivan
- Dumb and Dumber To (2014) as Ice Pick
- St. Vincent (2014) as Vincent MacKenna
- The Monuments Men (2014) as Sgt. Richard Campbell
- Olive Kitteridge (2014) as Jack Kennison
- Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013) as Self
- Alpha House (2013) as Senator Vernon Smits
- A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013) as Saul
- Moonrise Kingdom (2012) as Mr. Bishop
- Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) as (archive footage)
- Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) as Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Passion Play (2011) as Happy Shannon
- The Women of SNL (2010) as Richard Dawson / Various (archive footage)
- Behind Jim Jarmusch (2010) as Self
- Get Low (2010) as Frank Quinn
- The Making of 'The Darjeeling Limited' (2010) as Self - Businessman
- Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 (2010) as Self
- Ballhawks (2010) as Narrator
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009) as Self - Guest
- Parks and Recreation (2009) as Walter Gunderson
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) as Clive Badger (voice)
- Zombieland (2009) as Bill Murray
- The Limits of Control (2009) as American
- Markus Lanz (2008) as Self
- Get Smart (2008) as Agent 13
- City of Ember (2008) as Mayor Cole
- Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday (2008)
- Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence (2008) as Self
- A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' (2008) as Self
- The Graham Norton Show (2007) as Self
- The Darjeeling Limited (2007) as The Businessman
- FCU: Fact Checkers Unit (2007) as Bill Murray
- Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 (2007) as Self
- Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation (2007) as Self
- El hormiguero (2006) as Self - Guest
- Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) as Garfield (voice)
- Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride (2006) as Self
- Iron Chef America (2005) as Self
- Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (2005) as Himself
- Broken Flowers (2005) as Don Johnston
- This Is an Adventure (2005) as Self
- Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found (2005) as Self
- The Lost City (2005) as The Writer
- Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal (2005) as Self
- On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' (2005) as Self / Steve Zissou
- Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live (2005) as Self
- Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd (2005) as Various Characters (archive footage)
- Garfield (2004) as Garfield (voice)
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) as Steve Zissou
- Coffee and Cigarettes (2004) as Bill Murray (segment "Delirium")
- Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation' (2004) as Self
- This Old Cub (2004) as Himself
- Garfield: Bringing the Cat to Life (2004) as Self - Garfield (voice)
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self - Guest
- Lost in Translation (2003) as Bob Harris
- Can't Buy Me Lunch: Another Look at The Rutles (2003) as Bill Murray The K. (archive footage)
- The Sweet Spot (2002) as Self
- Groundhog Day: The Weight of Time (2002) as Self (archive footage)
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) as Raleigh St. Clair
- Osmosis Jones (2001) as Frank Detorre
- Banzai (2001)
- Charlie’s Angels: Getting G’d Up (2001) as Self
- Speaking of Sex (2001) as Ezri Stovall
- Charlie’s Angels: The Master and the Angels (2001) as Self
- Angelic Attire: Dressing Cameron, Drew & Lucy (2001) as Self
- With the Filmmaker: Wes Anderson (2001) as Self (archival footage)
- Charlie's Angels (2000) as John Bosley
- The Making of 'Rushmore' (2000) as Self
- Hamlet (2000) as Polonius
- Michael Jordan to the Max (2000) as Self
- Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special (1999) as Self
- Ghostbusters 1999 (1999) as Self - Archive Footage
- Cradle Will Rock (1999) as Tommy Crickshaw
- Caddyshack: The 19th Hole (1999) as Carl Spackler (archive footage)
- Saturday Night Live: Christmas (1999) as Self
- Wild Things (1998) as Kenneth Bowden
- Rushmore (1998) as Herman Blume
- With Friends Like These (1998) as Maurice Melnick
- The View (1997) as Self - Guest
- The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) as Wallace Ritchie
- The Daily Show (1996) as Self
- Space Jam (1996) as Bill Murray
- Kingpin (1996) as Ernie McCracken
- E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
- Larger Than Life (1996) as Jack Corcoran
- R.E.M.: Rough Cut (1995) as Himself
- WWE Hall Of Fame 1995 (1995) as Self
- Ed Wood (1994) as Bunny Breckinridge
- Late Show with David Letterman (1993) as Self - Guest
- Late Show with David Letterman (1993) as Self - Top 10 Presenter
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) as Self - Guest
- Groundhog Day (1993) as Phil Connors
- Mad Dog and Glory (1993) as Frank Milo
- Getaway (1992)
- What About Bob? (1991) as Bob Wiley
- Quick Change (1990) as Grimm
- Quick Change (1990) Director
- Quick Change (1990) Producer
- Ghostbusters II (1989) as Peter Venkman
- Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary (1989) as Self (archive footage)
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988) as Self
- She's Having a Baby (1988) as Bill Murray (uncredited)
- Scrooged (1988) as Francis Cross
- Little Shop of Horrors (1986) as Arthur Denton
- Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary (1986) as Self
- The Best of John Belushi (1985) as Various Characters
- Ghostbusters (1984) as Peter Venkman
- The Razor's Edge (1984) as Larry Darrell
- The Razor's Edge (1984) Screenplay
- Nothing Lasts Forever (1984) as Ted Breughel
- On the Scene with the Ghostbusters (1984)
- Late Night with David Letterman (1982) as Self - Guest
- Tootsie (1982) as Jeff Slater
- Twilight Theatre (1982) as Lefty in 'First Film'
- The Rodney Dangerfield Show: It's Not Easy Bein' Me (1982) as Various
- Fun & Games (1982)
- The Making of 'Tootsie' (1982) as Self
- Entertainment Tonight (1981)
- Stripes (1981) as John Winger
- Cut Flowers (1981)
- Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (1981) as Bytes
- Caddyshack (1980) as Carl Spackler
- Where the Buffalo Roam (1980) as Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
- The Missing Link (1980) as Dragon (voice)
- Bill Murray Live from the Second City (1980) as Self
- Bill Murray Live from the Second City (1980) Writer
- Meatballs (1979) as Tripper Harrison
- Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979) as Man on the Street
- Perchance to Dream (1979) as Honker
- Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood (1978) as Self / Nixon Voter (uncredited)
- The Dogs (1978)
- Loose Shoes (1978) as Lefty
- The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978) as Bill Murray the K.
- The Things We Did Last Summer (1978) as Self
- TVTV Looks at the Oscars (1976) as Self
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) as Nick Kessel (uncredited)
- Super Bowl (1976) as Himself
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Host
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Various Characters
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self (uncredited)
- Saturday Night Live (1975) Writer
- Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell (1975)
- Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell (1975) Writer
- The Oscars (1953) as Self
- Twilight Park as Mime Ringleader
- The Ploughmen as Cooper County Sheriff
- The King of Counterfeit
- Bum's Rush as Bum
- Epiphany as Oz Bell
- Epiphany Executive Producer
- Being Mortal
- Magacine
- Say Hello to Our Good Friend Paul Shaffer as Self
Frequently Asked Questions
What movies or TV shows is Bill Murray best known for?
Bill Murray is widely recognized for notable roles and projects including The Phoenician Scheme (2025), John Candy: I Like Me (2025), Riff Raff (2025), The Friend (2025).
When and where was Bill Murray born?
Bill Murray was born on September 21, 1950 in Wilmette, Illinois, USA.
How many credits does Bill Murray have?
Bill Murray has accumulated over 217 film and television credits across a career spanning from 1953 to 2026.
What is Bill Murray's background in cinema and television?
Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. Born on September 21, 1950, in Wilmette, Illinois, USA, he is known for his deadpan delivery in various roles. Murray has frequently collaborated with directors such as Ivan Reitman, Harold Ramis, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, and Jim Jarmusch. He has earned numero...
Bill Murray by the numbers
217credits
171films
46TV series
1953–2026active years
Age in their best-rated roles
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) as M. Ivan — aged about 63
- Parks and Recreation (2009) as Walter Gunderson — aged about 58
- John Candy: I Like Me (2025) as Self - Mainstage Cast, The Second City — aged about 74
- Isle of Dogs (2018) as Boss (voice) — aged about 67
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) as Clive Badger (voice) — aged about 58
- DEVO (2024) as Phil Connors (archive footage) (uncredited) — aged about 73
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