Rick Moranis

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Image:Dark Helmet angry.jpg Rick Moranis (born April 18, 1953) is a comic actor best known for his work on SCTV and in films such as Ghostbusters, Little Shop of Horrors, and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

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Early life

He was born Frederick Alan Moranis in Toronto, Ontario. In the 1970s, he worked (using the stage name Rick Allen) as a disc jockey at various radio stations in Toronto, including CFTR, CKFH, and CHUM-FM. He followed that with his work at SCTV, enjoying particular success portraying "Bob" of Bob and Doug McKenzie.

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Movies

After his SCTV work, Moranis had a busy film career which lasted over a decade. In an August 2004 interview with Sound & Vision magazine, Moranis talked about the kinds of films he enjoyed the most:

On the last couple of movies I made — big-budget Hollywood movies — I really missed being able to create my own material. In the early movies I did, I was brought in to basically rewrite my stuff, whether it was Ghostbusters or Spaceballs. By the time I got to the point where I was “starring” in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn’t for me. I’m really not an actor. I’m a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody’s precious words work.

The films he worked on include:


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Recent activities

As of 2004, Moranis was on the Advisory Committee for the comedy program at Humber College, the only such diploma program in the world.

In an October 2005 interview with USA Today, Moranis talked about backing away from the movie business:

I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97. I'm a single parent [his wife died in 1991 of liver cancer], and I just found that it was too difficult to manage raising my kids and doing the traveling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn't miss it.

In 2005, Moranis released an album entitled The Agoraphobic Cowboy, featuring country songs with lyrics which Moranis says follow in the comic tradition of artists like Roger Miller and Jim Stafford. The album was produced by Tony Scherr and is distributed through ArtistShare and his official website. In the Sound & Vision interview done before he decided to release the album, he commented on the origins of some of the songs:

About a year ago [in 2003], out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs. For lack of a better explanation, they’re more country than anything. And I actually demo’ed four or five of them, and I’m not sure at this point what I’m going to do with them — whether I’m going to fold them into a full-length video or a movie. But, boy, I had a good time doing that.

On December 8, 2005, The Agoraphobic Cowboy was announced as a nominee for the 2006 Grammy for Best Comedy Album.

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Quotes

  • Ghostbusters "During the rectification of the Vuldronaii the Traveller came as a large, moving Torb. Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants they chose a new form for him--that of a giant Sloar. Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day, I can tell you."
  • Ghostbusters "Alright, who brought the dog?"
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