Harold Ramis

Harold Ramis's biography

Harold Ramis is 70 years old comedian born on on Tuesday 21st of November 1944. According to year of birth 1944 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 21st of November means he is Scorpio. Scorpio is a watery sign. These people are very intense in their thoughts. They always learn from the transformatory phase of their life.

He is citizen of United States of America. He is an adherent of judaism. His primary profession is to be comedian. You can know him also as film director, writer, screenwriter, television actor, film actor, director. He is recently known as film producer. He received BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay Groundhog Day in 1994

Harold Ramis's schools

We found 2 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Washington University in St. Louis, Senn High School.

Detailed informations about his schools

• Attended and graduated from Nicholas Senn High School in Chicago, Illinois (1962).
• Attended and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (1966). He later received an honorary degree (Doctor of Arts) from the university (1993).

Harold Ramis's career

His main focus is to be comedian. He is famous thanks to Ghostbusters.

How did Harold Ramis die

He died on on Monday 24th of February 2014 when he was 70 years old at Chicago. Harold Ramiss death was caused by complications from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis.

Awards and competitions

Harold Ramis's Awards

• He was awarded a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame at 6338 Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri on May 16, 2004.
• The Writers Guild of America posthumously honored him with their lifetime achievement award, the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (2015).

What Harold Ramis has done for a first time

• Two years after his death, The Second City founded the Harold Ramis Film School in his honor, the first film school to focus solely on film comedy (2016).
• He was first hired to write a draft for 1941 (1979), but was fired due to creative differences between John Milius and Steven Spielberg.

Harold Ramis's quotes

• I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
• Everything we see has some hidden message. A lot of awful messages are coming in under the radar - subliminal consumer messages, all kinds of politically incorrect messages.
• Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago, and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
• Well, I never made big films to make big films; the scale's been appropriate to the content.
• [on the death of his friend Douglas Kenney in 1980] Doug probably fell while he was looking for a place to jump.
• It's hard for winners to do comedy. Comedy is inherently subversive. We represent the underdog as comedy usually speaks for the lower classes. We attack the winners.
• The best comedy touches something that's timeless and universal in people. When it's right, those things last.
• I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
• No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.
• I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
• How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
• Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.
• As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
• My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
• Multiplicity (1996) was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.
• I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.
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Harold Ramis's body shape

Lets describe how Harold Ramis looks. We will focus on his body shape. Body build is average.