Rick Moranis

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Moranis at the 1990 Academy Awards

Frederick Alan Rick Moranis (born April 18, 1953 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian actor , comedian and musician .

Life

Moranis achieved worldwide fame, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, through numerous comedic appearances in successful movies. He had his breakthrough with the comedy show Second City TV , which he co-designed , in which he played the stereotypical Canadians Bob & Doug McKenzie together with Dave Thomas . In 1982 he received an Emmy Award in the script category for a variety, music or comedy show for the episode Moral Majority Show broadcast in 1981 .

In his first movie, which he also directed, he took up these two characters again. In addition to his success in movies like Ghostbusters , Spaceballs , Liebling, I have shrunk the children and the Feuerstein family , he was also able to assert himself as a DJ on several Canadian radio stations. In 1993 he also starred in the music video for Tomorrow's Girls by Donald Fagen .

Moranis was last in front of the camera in 1997. After his wife Anne Moranis died in 1991 of complications from cancer, he increasingly withdrew from the film business in order to devote himself more to raising his two children. According to a 2015 interview, however, he is not retired, just very picky. He turned down a guest appearance in the remake of the Ghostbusters .

Moranis is active as a musician. In 2005 his album was released The Agoraphobic Cowboy with country songs and comedy deposits, which at the Grammy Awards 2006 as Best Comedy Album was nominated. His klezmer album My Mother's Brisket followed in 2013 , on which Moranis deals with his Jewish origins in comedy songs.

Filmography (selection)

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Take off
  US 16 03/27/1982 (14 weeks)

Studio albums:

  • 1981: Bob and Doug McKenzie - The Great White North
  • 1983: Bob and Doug McKenzie - The Adventures Of Bob & Doug McKenzie In Strange Brew
  • 1989: Rick Moranis - You, Me, The Music And Me
  • 2005: Rick Moranis - The Agoraphobic Cowboy
  • 2013: Rick Moranis - My Mother's Brisket

Singles:

  • 1981: Take Off

Web links

Commons : Rick Moranis  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Moranis' death in 1991, wife of Actor Rick Moranis. What happened? In: HitBerry . December 8, 2016 ( hitberry.com [accessed November 8, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Rick Moranis: Honey, I shrunk the career at independent.co.uk, accessed November 17, 2011
  3. ↑ Ryan Parker: Rick Morani's Reveals Why He Turned Down 'Ghostbusters' Reboot: "It Makes No Sense to Me" . In: hollywoodreporter.com . October 7, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b Rick Moranis Discusses His New Album, 'My Mother's Brisket' at nytimes.com, accessed June 25, 2013
  5. ↑ Rick Moranis: From 'Spaceballs' to country 'Cowboy' at usatoday.com, accessed November 17, 2011.
  6. ↑ “You Don't Do Liner Notes With The Dead Sea Scrolls”: Rick Moranis In Conversation at heebmagazine.com, accessed June 25, 2013
  7. ↑ Chart sources: US
personal data
SURNAME Moranis, Rick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moranis, Richard Allen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actor and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario, Canada