Posted onFebruary 24, 2014|Comments Off on Harold Ramis, ‘Caddyshack’ writer, ‘Ghostbusters’ actor, dies
Harold Ramis – Source: AP
Harold Ramis, who co-wrote and appeared as Dr. Egon Spengler in “Ghostbusters” with Second City alums Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray, has died.
Ramis suffered from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a disease that causes swelling in the blood vessels, and died from complications of the illness surrounded by his family
He also co-wrote “National Lampoon’s Animal House” and “Meatballs” and directed such films as “Caddyshack” and “Groundhog Day.” – via The AP onPilotOnline.comandVariety.
Good-bye, Egon. Let us celebrate Ramis’ life with 25 of the funnies quotes from “Ghostbusters”:
Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead of an apparent drug overdose — in the bathroom with a hypodermic needle still in his arm — inside a Greenwich Village home on Sunday morning, cops said.
Jerry Nelson, the puppeteer behindSesame Street’sbelovedCount von Count, died Thursday at the age of 78. The cause of death was unspecified. So sad. The number of kids he taught how to count? Countless.
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