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10 unusual facts about Bill Murray


Catskill Cougars

The Cougars played their home games at Baxter Stadium, and were part-owned by comedian Bill Murray.

D. A. Points

He also won the pro-am portion with amateur partner Bill Murray.

Gama Goat

Bill Murray drives one up to a Soviet base in Czechoslovakia dressed as a Soviet soldier to rescue his friends from captivity.

Hadley Kay

A few years later, he made his film debut opposite Bill Murray in the 1979 comedy, Meatballs.

Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion

One of them is played at the end of "Solely Concentrating on the Negative Aspects of Life", in which Bill Murray is heard saying "It's gonna be cold. It's gonna be gray. And it's gonna last you for the rest of your life" from the 1993 film Groundhog Day.

Midway Stadium

When Mike Veeck and Bill Murray revived the Saints and also the independent Northern League in 1993, they set up shop there, at the soon-rechristened Midway Stadium.

Roane County, Tennessee

The 2010 film, Get Low, starring Bill Murray, Robert Duvall, and Sissy Spacek, was based off the true story of a Roane County man, Felix Breazeale.

Wild Man Fischer

He was mentioned by Eric Clapton in the opening of the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, "Wild Man Fischer lives...", in reply to Bill Murray's introduction.

Woodstock Square Historic District

Many key scenes, featuring Bill Murray, in Groundhog Day were filmed in and around the Woodstock Square Historic District.

World Golf Village

The Murray Brothers Caddy Shack restaurant is located along the Walk of Champions and is owned by actor Bill Murray and his five brothers.


A Futile and Stupid Gesture

As the book recounts, at that time the National Lampoon's performers included John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner, all of whom subsequently went on to appear on Saturday Night Live and have careers in other media including film.

Brian Sacca

In 2007, they wrote and starred in the short film "FCU: Fact Checkers Unit" with Bill Murray.

Fact Checkers Unit

Fact Checkers Unit (FCU) was originally a short film featured in the 2008 Sundance Film Festival starring Bill Murray, and was later turned into a branded entertainment series for Samsung Mobile.

Monteith and Rand

Suzanne Rand and John Monteith are Second City graduates; Suzanne was in the famed company that included John Belushi and Bill Murray in Chicago, and John performed with John Candy, Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner in Toronto.

Picha

In 1979, the now R-rated film was released under the title Shame Of The Jungle, and was rewritten by Saturday Night Live writers Anne Beatts and Michael O'Donoghue and was dubbed by John Belushi, Johnny Weissmuller, Jr., Bill Murray, and several others.

Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1977–1978

Joe and his ex-partner Bob (Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray) are two cops that were kicked off the force (apparently for being intrusive bigots) that harass the people that live in their apartment building for not living up to their arch-conservative standards (a man and a woman living together without being married, an allegedly lesbian couple, etc.) with disastrous results.

Sellersburg, Indiana

Notable celebrities played in the 2006 Wolf Challenge in Sellersburg, including Bill Murray, Kevin Costner, John Daly, and Cris Judd.