Bill Murray Filmography

Born:: September 21, 1950 in Wilmette, IL
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Of the many performers to leap into films from the springboard of the television sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, Bill Murray has been among the most successful and unpredictable, forging an idiosyncratic career allowing him to stretch from low-brow slapstick farce to intelligent adult...Read More

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Actors: George Clooney, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jason Schwartzman

Synopsis: A wily fox uses his formidable cunning to outsmart three feeble-minded farmers who resort to extreme tactics to protect their chickens in director Wes Anderson's animated adaptation of the popular Roald Dahl children's book. George Clooney supplies the voice for Mr. Fox, with Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray Read More

11/6/09
City of Ember

Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Martin Landau, Mary Kay Place

Synopsis: Monster House director Gil Kenan takes the helm for this children's fantasy about two young heroes who attempt to solve an ancient mystery in time to prevent their underground city from being swallowed by darkness. The City of Ember was built over 200 year ago, deep below the earth, where the Read More

10/10/08
The Limits of Control

Actors: Isaach de Bankolé, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Gael García Bernal

Synopsis: Jim Jarmusch directs Isaach de Bankolé in The Limits of Control, a Focus Features production that follows an unlawful lone wolf as he pulls a job in Spain. Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, and Gael García Bernal co-star in the Focus Features production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/08
The Darjeeling Limited

Actors: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Amara Karan, Wallace Wolodarsky

Synopsis: Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited stars Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, and Adrien Brody as three brothers who, at the insistence of the oldest, take a train ride through India together in order to strengthen their bond. Even though the vacation goes wrong in ways they do not anticipate, the Read More

9/29/07
Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007

Actors: Eric Clapton

Synopsis: Eric Clapton: Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 offers footage from that edition of the annual charity event. This particular line-up includes performances by Sheryl Crow, Buddy Guy, and Willie Nelson, as well as Clapton himself paying homage to his dear friend George Harrison. ~ Perry Seibert, All Read More

2007
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

Actors: Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Billy Connolly, Ian Abercrombie, Lucy Davis

Synopsis: The laziest cat in America swaps places with the richest feline in England in director Tim Hill's lasagna-laden sequel to the 2004 theatrical hit Garfield. Jon Arbuckle (Breckin Meyer) is on his way to London to propose to his veterinarian girlfriend, Liz Wilson (Jennifer Love Hewitt), and his Read More

6/16/06
The Lost City

Actors: Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Ines Sastre

Synopsis: Veteran actor Andy Garcia steps into the director's chair for his first voyage into feature filmmaking with this heartfelt tribute to revolutionary, late-'50s-era Cuba featuring Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Tomas Milian, and offering the director himself in the starring role. Fico Fellove (Garcia) Read More

4/28/06
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film

Synopsis: Actor Nick Nolte narrates this detailed look at the life and career of Hunter S. Thompson - the late, great Gonzo journalist whose outrageous exploits inspired such films as Where the Buffalo Roam, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Rum Diaries. A true American original, Thompson was a writer Read More

2006
Broken Flowers

Actors: Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy

Synopsis: A man sets out to find the son he didn't know he had and winds up getting answers to some questions he never asked in this comedy drama from director Jim Jarmusch. Don Johnston (Bill Murray) is an emotionally blank middle-aged man who has never married and lives a quiet, comfortable life thanks to Read More

8/5/05
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou

Actors: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: The first effort from director Wes Anderson since his critically beloved The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou finds the filmmaker re-teaming with a number of familiar faces, including Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston, and Seymour Cassel. Murray plays Steve Zissou, an Read More

12/10/04
Garfield: The Movie

Actors: Bill Murray, Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Debra Messing, Stephen Tobolowsky, Evan Arnold

Synopsis: Jim Davis' famous cartoon cat finally makes his way to the big screen in this adaptation of the popular comic strip Garfield, which combines live action with CGI animation. Jon Arbuckle (Breckin Meyer) is a sweet, if somewhat clueless, man who shares his home with his pet cat, Garfield (voice of Bill Murray Read More

6/11/04
Coffee and Cigarettes

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright, Joie Lee, Cinqué Lee, Steve Buscemi

Synopsis: Jim Jarmusch's black-and-white feature Coffee and Cigarettes contains three vignettes originally released as short films along with separate yet somewhat related sketches. As the title suggests, most of the vignettes involve famous people smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. The first, "Coffee Read More

5/14/04
This Old Cub

Actors: Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: On a baseball team not often cited for its great players, Ron Santo was a hero and a legend. As a third baseman for the Chicago Cubs, Santo played 14 seasons (1960 through 1974), made the All-Star team nine times, earned five Gold Gloves, and in 1965 became the team's youngest ever captain. While Read More

3/26/04
Lost in Translation

Actors: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris

Synopsis: After making a striking directorial debut with her screen adaptation of The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola offers a story of love and friendship blooming under unlikely circumstances in this comedy drama. Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is a well-known American actor whose career has gone into a Read More

9/12/03
Speaking of Sex

Actors: Lara Flynn Boyle, Catherine O'Hara, James Spader, Bill Murray, Jay Mohr

Synopsis: Wild Things director James McNaughton explores the doomed efforts of young couple to salvage their failing marriage in a dark romantic comedy starring Bill Murray, James Spader, Jay Mohr, Melora Walters, and Catherine O'Hara. In the grand scheme of things their relationship has only just begun Read More

2003
The Royal Tenenbaums

Actors: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson

Synopsis: Director Wes Anderson and his longtime friend and writing partner Owen Wilson follow up Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) with this similarly offbeat comedy about a dysfunctional family reunion. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) was a successful attorney who had three children with his wife Read More

12/14/01
Osmosis Jones

Actors: Bill Murray, Molly Shannon, Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly, the impish impresarios of gross-out comedy, take their body function-inspired humor to new extremes in this mixture of live action and animation. Bill Murray stars as Frank, a zoo worker suffering from the effects of an unknown malady he contracted after eating Read More

8/10/01
Charlie's Angels

Actors: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, Sam Rockwell, Crispin Glover, Luke Wilson

Synopsis: They're beautiful, they're brilliant, and they can kick your butt -- the most glamorous private eyes in the world are back in action in this big-screen adaptation of the popular '70s television series. Natalie (Cameron Diaz) is the smart but silly one, Dylan (Drew Barrymore) is the tough but Read More

11/3/00
Hamlet

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Sam Shepard, Diane Venora, Bill Murray, Julia Stiles

Synopsis: William Shakespeare's classic tale is brought to the screen for the third time in ten years in this modernized interpretation. Writer/director Michael Almereyda updates the story to the present day, where Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) is a struggling filmmaker whose personal and familial trials are set Read More

5/12/00
Michael Jordan to the Max

Actors: Michael Jordan, Phil Jackson, Doug Collins, Bob Greene, Bob Costas

Synopsis: Michael Jordan was the most famous, most honored, and probably the greatest professional basketball player of his generation, an athlete whose intelligence, charisma, and dazzling on-court skill helped earn his game a new level of popularity and won Jordan a record six NBA title rings. Michael Read More

5/5/00
Cradle Will Rock

Actors: Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Cary Elwes, Cherry Jones, Angus MacFadyen

Synopsis: The sometimes rocky relationship between art and politics in America in the 1930s -- as well as the gulf between the wealthy and the struggling -- sets the stage for Tim Robbins' ambitious comedy-drama Cradle Will Rock. Pulling together a variety of threads from actual events, Robbins examines the Read More

12/8/99
Stories From My Childhood Vol. 2

Actors: Bill Murray

1999
Saturday Night Live: Bill Murray [5]

Actors: Bill Murray, Lucinda Williams

Synopsis: This 1999 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Bill Murray and features musical guest Lucinda Williams. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1999
Saturday Night Live: 25 Years of Laughs

Synopsis: Like it or not, for 25 years, Saturday Night Live has graced our living rooms on Saturday nights. The show has gone through changes and ups and downs in its 25 year run and has become a breeding ground for many talented comics who use its stage as a trampoline to stardom. This side-achingly funny Read More

1999
Rushmore

Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel, Brian Cox

Synopsis: After the highly acclaimed independent film Bottle Rocket, director Wes Anderson followed up with a quirky Touchstone Studios film entitled Rushmore. Written by Anderson and friend Owen Wilson (an actor in Armageddon and Anaconda), they created the story of Max Fischer, a highly eccentric Read More

12/11/98
Wild Things

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Theresa Russell, Denise Richards, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Bill Murray

Synopsis: This thriller takes place in Blue Bay, Florida, where social-climbing guidance counselor Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon) is indifferent to teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan (Denise Richards), who retaliates by accusing him of rape, an accusation that leads to his suspension by the school and a rejection Read More

1998
With Friends Like These...

Actors: Adam Arkin, Robert Costanzo, Beverly D'Angelo, Elle MacPherson, Amy Madigan

Synopsis: Life among insecure, middle-aged character actors, former New Yorkers in L.A., is the main plot focus of this Philip Frank Messina comedy about four friends who want the same role in the next Martin Scorsese gangster flick. Balding Johnny DiMartino (Robert Costanzo) is so excited by the news of a Read More

1998
The Man Who Knew Too Little

Actors: Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Alfred Molina, Richard Wilson

Synopsis: Jon Amiel directed this satire on mistaken-identity thrillers and the spy genre, scripted by Robert Farrar, Tim John, and Oliver Butcher from Farrar's unpublished novel, Watch That Man. In the female lead, Joanne Whalley returned to films after a three-year absence, choosing to do so with Read More

1997
Space Jam

Actors: Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Theresa Randle, Muggsy Bogues, Billy West, Bill Murray, D. Bradley Baker

Synopsis: Warner Bros. attempted to revitalize its animation division with this family adventure that blended live action and animation in the style of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), reportedly coming in with a price tag of $100 million. Basketball legend Michael Jordan stars as himself, a retired sports Read More

1996
Larger Than Life

Actors: Bill Murray, Janeane Garofalo, Matthew McConaughey, Keith David, Linda Fiorentino, Pat Hingle, Tai

Synopsis: Bill Murray teams up with his biggest co-star to date (with the exception of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man) in this family-oriented comedy. Jack Corcoran (Bill Murray) is a motivational speaker who makes his living advising others how to tie up the loose ends of their lives, but he has plenty of Read More

1996
Kingpin

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, Vanessa Angel, Bill Murray, Chris Elliott

Synopsis: In the '70s, Roy Munsen (Woody Harrelson) was a bowling phenomenon. He was none too sharp about picking friends, though, and the champion he had to beat, "Big Ern," takes him under his supposedly friendly wing. Big Ern (Bill Murray) shows him the high-living lifestyle, and induces him to go on the Read More

1996
Ed Wood

Actors: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones

Synopsis: Hollywood visionary Tim Burton pays homage to another Hollywood visionary, albeit a less successful one, in this unusual fictionalized biography. The film follows Wood (Johnny Depp) in his quest for film greatness as he writes and directs turkey after turkey, cross-dresses, and surrounds himself Read More

1994
Saturday Night Live: Bill Murray [4]

Actors: Bill Murray, Sting

Synopsis: This 1993 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Bill Murray and features musical guest Sting. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Mad Dog and Glory

Actors: Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Bill Murray, David Caruso, Mike Starr

Synopsis: John McNaughton directed this Richard Price-scripted comedy about a cop who learns to love an unwanted gift from a gangster. Robert De Niro plays Wayne Dobie, a shy and reclusive Chicago cop who has never fired a gun. Dobie is an evidence technician who takes photographs at crime scenes, earning Read More

1993
Groundhog Day

Actors: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray, Marita Geraghty

Synopsis: Bill Murray plays Phil, a TV weatherman working for a local station in Pennsylvania but convinced that national news stardom is in his grasp. Phil displays a charm and wit on camera that evaporates the moment the red light goes off; he is bitter, appallingly self-centered, and treats his Read More

1993
What About Bob?

Actors: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo, Kathryn Erbe

Synopsis: In this comedy about a doctor-patient relationship pushed way beyond the office, Bill Murray plays Bob Wiley, a neurotic New Yorker struggling with a whirlwind of paralyzing phobias. When an exasperated colleague pawns the handful off on Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss), the psychologist has no Read More

5/17/91
Quick Change

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, Jason Robards, Jr., Bob Elliott

Synopsis: Bill Murray co-directed (along with Howard Franklin) this mixture of The Out-of-Towners and After Hours, concerning Grimm (Bill Murray), a frustrated city planner who is fed up with the corruption and venality of New York City. Getting together a couple of accomplices -- Phyllis (Geena Davis), who Read More

4/27/90
Ghostbusters 2

Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: Ivan Reitman's sequel to the phenomenally successful Ghostbusters is looser and more self-assured than the original. The film opens with a title reading "Five Years Later" and finds the ghostbusters living in hard times. A restraining order has forbidden the boys to partake in paranormal warfare Read More

6/16/89
The Best of Gilda Radner

Synopsis: Within a single year, Gilda Radner rose from talented but obscure improv comedienne to "America's Sweetheart" thanks to NBC's Saturday Night Live. The 60-minute video The Best of Gilda Radner is culled from SNL's vintage years, 1975 to 1980. Included are such beloved Radner creations as Roseanne Read More

1989
Scrooged

Actors: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane

Synopsis: A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard Read More

11/23/88
The Best of Chevy Chase

Synopsis: "Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase-and you're not!" Maybe no one would want to be Mr. Chase these days (not with his recent string of box-office flops), but in 1975 and 1976, the world was Chevy's oyster. Those are the years that he rose to stardom on NBC's Saturday Night Live, and these are the years Read More

1987
Saturday Night Live: Bill Murray [3]

Actors: Bill Murray, Percy Sledge

Synopsis: This 1987 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Bill Murray and features musical guest Percy Sledge. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Little Shop of Horrors

Actors: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, Levi Stubbs

Synopsis: It started as a 1960 Roger Corman horror comedy, filmed in two days; it then inspired a lavish 1982 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. Finally in 1986, Little Shop of Horrors (1960) graduated into a multimillion-dollar, all-star film musical. Rick Moranis Read More

12/19/86
The Best of Dan Aykroyd

Synopsis: The Best of Dan Aykroyd is a 60-minute compilation of highlights from the first five years of TV's Saturday Night Live. As indicated by the title, the emphasis is on the multitalented Dan Aykroyd. The bits vary in quality but hit the target with far more frequency than the current dismal Read More

1986
The Best of John Belushi

Actors: John Belushi

Synopsis: Assembled long after John Belushi's death in 1982, The Best of John Belushi is at once hilarious and melancholy. From 1975 to 1979, Belushi was a member in excellent standing of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" on NBC's Saturday Night Live. This 60-minute video covers those amazing years Read More

1985
Ghostbusters

Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts

Synopsis: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based "paranormal investigators". When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is Read More

1984
Nothing Lasts Forever

Actors: Zach Galligan, Apollonia Van Ravenstein, Lauren Tom, Dan Aykroyd, Imogene Coca

Synopsis: Tom Schiller, best known for the short subjects he wrote and directed for Saturday Night Live's early seasons, made his feature film debut with this offbeat fantasy. In the future, the city of New York is governed by the Port Authority, and aspiring artist Adam Beckett (Zach Galligan) is depressed Read More

1984
The Razor's Edge

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, James Keach

Synopsis: In this Bill Murray-driven remake of the 1946 Tyrone Power film, Murray plays the lead, Larry Darrel, a World War I survivor who takes off on a foreign trek to discover the meaning of his life. Apparently Murray said he'd film Ghostbusters only if Columbia would let him do Razor's Edge. ~ All Read More

1984
Landmark Laserdiscs, Vol. 2: Fun and Games

Synopsis: Another interactive program that features fun and learning by using new and old games from around the world. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Tootsie

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray, Geena Davis

Synopsis: Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), a brilliant but troublesome New York actor, has managed to alienate every producer on both coasts. Michael's agent George Fields (Sydney Pollack) can't even get his client a commercial since Michael complained that the tomato he was playing wasn't properly Read More

1982
Saturday Night Live: Bill Murray [2]

Actors: Bill Murray, The Spinners, Yale Whiffenpoofs

Synopsis: This 1981 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Bill Murray and features musical guests the Spinners and Yale Whiffenpoofs. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Stripes

Actors: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P.J. Soles, Sean Young, John Candy

Synopsis: Bill Murray decides to be all that he can be -- and it ain't pretty -- in this hit comedy. John Winger (Murray) is a quick-witted but unambitious loser who comes home after getting fired to discover that his car has been repossessed and his girlfriend is leaving him. With no idea of what to do Read More

1981
Saturday Night Live: Bill Murray [1]

Actors: Bill Murray, Delbert McClinton

Synopsis: This 1981 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Bill Murray and features musical guest Delbert McClinton. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Loose Shoes

Actors: Lewis Arquette, Danny Dayton, Murphy Dunne, Howard Hesseman, Steve Landesberg

Synopsis: Preview trailers for movies not coming to a theater near you are collected in this satiric comedy. Loose Shoes is a sketch comedy which takes the form of a series of "coming attractions" for movies that don't happen to exist. The oddball trailers include the Billy Jack parody Billy Jerk Read More

1980
Shame of the Jungle

Actors: John Belushi, Brian Doyle-Murray, Andrew Duncan, Christopher Guest, Bill Murray, Johnny Weissmuller, Jr.

Synopsis: In this animated Tarzan spoof, Tarzoon of the Jungle travels through his tropical home in the company of his friend, June. This film features the voices of "Saturday Night Live" stars Bill Murray and John Belushi. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Where the Buffalo Roam

Actors: Peter Boyle, Bill Murray, Bruno Kirby, René Auberjonois, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: Based on the writings and experiences of "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson, Where the Buffalo Roam details the adventures of Thompson (Bill Murray) and his attorney (Peter Boyle), whose character is rewritten as Mexican-American rather than Samoan, as they pillage and plunder their way across