BRIAN DOYLE-MURRAY

'Brian Doyle-Murray' (born October 31, 1945) is an American comedian, screenwriter and character actor.

Contents

Biography

Personal life

Career

Celebrity impersonations on SNL

Filmography

References

External links

Biography

Personal life

Murray, one of nine children, was born 'Brian Murray' in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lucille (Collins) and Edward J. Murray II, a lumber salesman, both Irish American Catholics.^[1][2][3] He 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.

Career

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 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 was also seen in the Disney movie, Snow Dogs. In 2007, he appeared in the movie ''Daddy Day Camp''.
He is 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 was also a co-star of the TV series ''Get A Life'' from 1991-1992.
As a voice actor, he has voiced The Flying Dutchman on Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants, 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.

Celebrity impersonations on SNL

★ Albert Einstein

★ Colonel Tom Parker

★ Howard Baker

★ Jerry Falwell

★ Jody Powell

★ Ken Anderson

★ Leopoldo Galtieri

★ Rod Serling

★ Sid Vicious

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)

★ ''Cabin Boy'' (1994)

★ ''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)

★ ''Snow Dogs'' (2002)

★ ''Daddy Day Camp'' (2007)
Doyle-Murray 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!"

References

1. http://landing.ancestry.com/famoustree/Tree.aspx?name=murray&sourceCode=6865
2. http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2001/02/06/murray/index.html
3. http://www.filmreference.com/film/75/Brian-Doyle-Murray.html

External links

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