“Ghostbusters” star Harold Ramis has passed away at the age of 69. HLN’s AJ Hammer remembers the actor.
Harold Ramis, the actor, writer and director whose films include “Stripes,” “Ghostbusters,” “Groundhog Day” and “Analyze This,” has died from complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, at age 69.
Ramis, integral to many top comedies at the end of last century, died in his Chicago-area home. Ramis chose to move his family from Los Angeles back to the Chicago area in 1996 for a more normal life.
He was a veteran of the Second City troupe in his hometown of Chicago, he was a writer for “SCTV” and wrote or co-wrote the scripts for “National Lampoon’s Animal House” (1978), “Caddyshack” (1980), “Stripes” (1981), “Ghostbusters” (1984), “Groundhog Day” (1993) and “Analyze This” (1999).
“Ghostbusters” was the second-biggest box office hit of 1984, second to “Beverly Hills Cop.”
He also directed “Caddyshack,” “National Lampoon’s Vacation” (1983), “Groundhog Day,” “Analyze This” and the dark 2005 film “The Ice Harvest” about mobsters stealing from mobsters.
Ramis is survived by his wife, Erica Mann Ramis, three children and two grandchildren.
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Stripes Movie Clip with Harold Ramis and Bill Murray.
Music video by Ray Parker, Jr. performing Ghostbusters. (C) 1984 Arista Records, Inc.
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