American actor and comedian who rose with Saturday Night Live and built a second career as a melancholic leading man in independent film.
Background
Born in Wilmette, Illinois, the fifth of nine children, Murray joined Chicago’s Second City improv troupe before being cast on “Saturday Night Live” in 1977.
Career
After hits including “Caddyshack,” “Stripes,” and “Ghostbusters,” he led Harold Ramis’s “Groundhog Day,” then reinvented himself as a dramatic actor through repeated collaborations with Wes Anderson and Sofia Coppola, earning his only Oscar nomination for “Lost in Translation.”
Style
Murray’s deadpan, improvisational delivery and tendency to play wounded, withdrawn middle-aged men made him a defining presence of 21st-century American indie cinema.
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