Actor, writer and filmmaker Harold Ramis, the Ghostbusters star whose comedy credits include Groundhog Day and the National Lampoon films, has died at 69.
Ramis died early Monday morning at his Chicago-area home, surrounded by family and friends, according to a statement from his Los Angeles representatives, United Talent Agency.
Ramis died of complications from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a condition he had battled for the past four years.
- National Lampoon's Animal House
- Meatballs
- Stripes
- Ghostbusters (I and II)
- National Lampoon's Vacation
- Caddyshack (I and II)
- Groundhog Day
- As Good as It Gets
- Stuart Saves His Family
- Multiplicity
- Knocked Up
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
- Analyze This (and its sequel Analyze That)
- Bedazzled
- Year One
Chicago-born Ramis started his comedy career in his hometown's influential Second City improv comedy theatre in 1969, where he would encounter his friends and regular collaborators such as John Belushi, Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd.
When the troupe launched its landmark television series SCTV in the late 1970s, Ramis was its first head writer, as well as one of the cast members.
Nearly a decade later, he broke through into Hollywood with the blockbuster comedy National Lampoon's Animal House, starring Belushi, and became known for some of the most popular comedy films of the 1980s.
Through his career, he would mix screenwriting, directing, producing and acting roles. His best-loved titles include his role in the Ghostbusters films — in which he portrayed the straight-laced Dr. Egon Spengler — and directing the comedy classic Groundhog Day, starring Murray.
He often teamed with his former Second City colleagues for wild and silly films, including Stripes, Caddyshack, Meatballs and National Lampoon's Vacation.
In recent years, his work included directing episodes of The Office, the film Year One and cameo roles in movies by comedy filmmakers he'd inspired (including Judd Apatow's Knocked Up).
He is survived by his wife, Erica Mann Ramis, his children Julian, Daniel and Violet and two grandchildren.
Former SCTV cast members reunited at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen in 1999, including (front row, from left) Dave Thomas, Catherine O'Hara, Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, (back row, from left) Joe Flaherty and Harold Ramis. (E Pablo Kosmicki/Associated Press)
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