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Bill Murray

Born: 1950 in Evanston, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Murry grew up on the North Shore of Chicago in Wilmette. He attended Loyola Academy and began his career at Chicago's Second City.

Biography: Murray has been an Actor, Comedian, Director, Producer, Screenwriter and Caddy. Bill is the fifth of nine children born to Edward and Lucille Murray. He and most of his siblings worked as caddies, which paid his tuition to Loyola Academy, a Jesuit school. He played sports and did some acting while in that school, but in his words, mostly 'screwed off.' He enrolled at Regis College in Denver to study pre-med but dropped out after being arrested for marijuana possession. He then joined the National Lampoon Radio Hour with fellow members Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and John Belushi. However, while those three became the original members of 'Saturday Night Live' (1975), he joined 'Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell' (1975), which premiered that same year. After that show failed, he later got the opportunity to join 'Saturday Night Live' (1975).


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000195/#writer1970
Web: https://www.biography.com/actor/bill-murray
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Murray


Selected Titles

Cinderella Story: My Life in Golf
ISBN: 1860746500 OCLC: 59356389

Sanctuary, London : 2005.

One of the funniest, most beloved, and most often quoted entertainers in the world tells his tale of Life and Golf and somehow surviving both--one pilgrim's bemused path through the doglegs. With his brilliant creation, groundskeeper Carl Spackler, and the outrageous success of the film Caddyshack firmly etched into the American consciousness, Bill Murray and golf have become synonymous. Now Bill tells the hilarious tale behind the tale. The love of the game was with Bill long before Carl uttered the now famous words, "Cinderella story outta nowhere. Former greenskeeper and now about to become the Masters champion." Born and raised in Wilmette, Illinois, Bill felt the lure of the links at a tender age. Following his older brothers Ed and Brian into the rarified world of private country club golf as a caddy, Bill learned life lessons at the caddyshack. "How to smoke, curse, play cards. But more important, when to." And long before he caught the acting and writing bug, Bill protected the Evanston Community Golf Course from gophers and golfers as a greenskeeper: "There must be a bent chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he cannot conquer--" And throughout his career, the pull of the links has been constant. A summa cum laude graduate of golf school, specializing in the flop shot, Bill's escapades on the Pro-Am golf circuit, at Augusta National, and as a fan at the Masters, the U.S. Open, and the Western Open make for an irresistible read. Filled with the kind of deadpan and dead-on hilarity that only Bill Murray could create, Cinderella Story is an up-by-the-bootstraps chronicle of a man, his muse, and his critical examination of our society's fascination with a little white ball.

 

 

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