William James Murray

Bill Murray

A wonderful actor, I love many films with him. I wouldn’t want to, but I myself can’t tell all his interesting biography, so I will draw your attention to the wonderful article by Boris Bogdanov. It was very interesting to learn so much about this actor. I advise everyone to read to everyone.

Today, the star status of Bill Murray is not doubtful. This actor, always related to filming as a tedious and uninteresting occupation, receives multimillion -dollar fees, the best directors of Hollywood dream of inviting him to the main roles in their films, scriptwriters write their opuses specifically under Bill, and millions of fans around the world are waiting for every new work of Murrey.

The childhood and youth of Murray in no way foreshadowed him success. On the evening of September 21, 1950, over the town of Wilmett, in Illinois, a loud scream swept. In the family of the Irish Edes and Lucille Murray, replenishment appeared. The strong baby was dubbed William John, he was the fifth. After him, four more boys are people in a poor family of Mürrey, all of them will grow up good, correct and disciplined, they will gently go to work daily, lead families, but Bill had a different fate. Like all their children, Bill's parents identified Belian Academy of St. Ignatius Loyola at the Jesuit Academy of House. Young Murray hated the school from the very first days of study. Most of all he was annoyed that you had to go there daily, sit there at an uncomfortable desk and listen to the tedious and useless sermons of teachers. All that he needed, he grabbed on the fly, and uninteresting lessons carelessly walked. On those rare days when he appeared at school, a fight began, scandals with teachers, at which he openly painted caricatures or went to show off the director due to endless bastings to the beautiful floor. At the school theater, Bill received the first stage experience, but he was soon expelled with disgrace, because he played only in order to get the girls on stage for his pleasure. At school, Murray announced his main life principle - "do not take anything seriously." The only thing he really got to the child’s age is to golf. Bill and his three brothers - Brian, Joel and John in those distant years were considered the best Kaddy in Wilmett. For the sake of golf, Murray was always ready for anything - take a walk, forget about a date, not come to the shooting. “His eyes light up with a crazy brilliance, he only has to pick up the club,” says Brian Murray about his brother.

Finally Bill was free! The school is over! By the end of the school, Murray approached the folding sludge, drachun and a loafer - he waved to 185 cm, turned into a hefty man and almost half of Wilmett tried his fists! After school, parents set a condition to their Shalopai - either he goes to study in college, or they deprive him of financial support. For Bill, with difficulty and school, which graduated from it was a blow below the belt. It is impossible to imagine what kind of roundabout paths a young applicant used to get into at least some university. Finally, he was lucky in a medical college in Colorado. Father and mother were satisfied - it seems that the son began to be subject. But it wasn't there! An old school story began in college, with the only difference being that Bill was now an adult and could allow himself much more. Soon, the name of the student of Murray became a household name. He was still lying around a fool, walking lectures, drank a lot, was a torn in all the brawls, smoked a marijuan. And as soon as someone objected to someone, a fight began, from which Murray almost always emerged the winner. He spent the evenings in taverns, drunken with friends and girls, and in the morning he woke up in a police station with a bloated lip and erased memory. He insulted the police, poured mocking jokes to the right and left. In short, we were completely uncontrollable! In the college, Murray was afraid and shunned. The patience of the dean burst when he was informed that his student Murray William was trying to deliver a large batch of marijuana across the border of the state and was arrested. And he himself asked for arrest. At the Denver airport to the question “What are you taking?”, He answered with a grin - “Bomb. And what, you can't? " Murray was happy to be thrown out of college.

Murray was on the street without any prospects for the future, which, however, did not grieve him very much. Having decided to tie up once and for all with higher education, he got a job with the shortest working day, which he could find in Chicago - to spread pizza. Very little time passed, and Bill flew out of there. Then there was still construction, trading in popcorn, distribution of advertising booklets, etc. Nowhere could Bill hold out for more than a couple of months. Still. He worked in the same way as he studied, that is, in any way. He drank, walked, scandalized with the bosses, played golf. So the poor fellow would have disappeared, if not for the elder brother Brian. Once he took Bill by the hand and said: “Listen, Billy, 5 years have passed, but you didn’t take up anything. Admit it, you don't want to do anything. I want to offer you an interesting and lightest lesson. No skills are required. Drink, walk for your pleasure. No discipline, no difficulty. Only talent and luck. Are you with me? " So Bill Murray ended up in the acting studio Second City (“Second City”), where his brother studied. True, his acting interested him no more than medicine. Murray did not see any talent, no beauty, or charm. And he never thought about fame at all. It was simply disgusting to watch how his fellow practitioners carefully grimaced in front of each other at rehearsals, trying to show some emotions, eagerly replay and look disgustingly unnecessary. Therefore, he was pretty surprised when he was invited to television, and even to the comedy show of Saturday Night Live (“Saturday evening, live broadcast”), such stars as Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, John Belushi, and Mike Mayers, Eddie Murphy, Martin, Martin, went to him. Lawrence et al. Murray honestly admitted that he could not grimace, nor to sing, nor acceptably, he could not joke, but the producers needed it. So in 1975, Bill Murray was instead of Chevy Chase in the magnificent team - along with Dan Eikroid and John Belushi. It was a serious school of ridiculous and Murray went through it with honor, he pleasantly surprised the audience with his every appearance, and his simplicity and obvious unwillingness to do anything specially to laugh, they delighted people. In addition, he actively scribbled funny sketches and gags for the program. For this "frivolous" work, Bill was awarded Emmy. He began to find out a little, the show allowed him to be wrapped and idle at the same time, and to receive good money for this. Of course, such charismatic and charming stars of the screen as Eikroyid, Belushi and Murray could not help but invite to the cinema. Bill gained the first experience in cinema in 1976, starring in a tiny role in Paul Mazursky “The next stop of the village of Greenwich”. This typical low -budget was no success, and Murray in it can only be seen by the most trained eye! Actually, Murray and on TV were not bad, so the next proposal, received from the unknown Aivan Reitman, was not particularly interested in. Moreover, less than a million green were allocated for the film, but what Blue -Bujet Bill already knew. And in order to probably get rid of an annoying director, Murray sets a impudent condition: let him pay interest on profit. A requirement put forward only by large stars and that is not always. But the director liked Bill so much that he was nevertheless approved for the role. The comedy “Teftel” published in 1979 flashed at the box office as a tsunami - $ 45 million. This picture became a pass of both Murray and Reitman in a big movie. Murray for the first time realized that the movie could bring a wonderful income and be funny, especially when you have a bunch of fans of all ages. Only then did he reconcile with the “tedious” and “boring” film process and seriously began to think about the career of the actor. Just at that time, Murray married his former school girlfriend Mickey-now turning into Margaret Kelly-Murray. The wedding was played in the 80th, when a brilliant comedy “Golf Club” was released on the screens, where Chevy Chase played in the title role, but it was Murray who often pulled the blanket on himself, forcing the producers to think-“But the guy has potential, and not small, it is time to give him real roles.” At that time, Bill said that "here are a couple more years, and he ties with a comedy, will be removed in the dramas from which both the audience and the creators will sob." A couple of years passed. There were “bangs” and “tutsi”, where Bill had not the main, but very noticeable and interesting roles. Finally, in 1984 there was a real splash! The script of his old friend Dan Eikroida lay on the table Murray. It was called very intriguing - “ghost hunters”, pushing him, Bill said with his signature half -smile - “Hit. One hundred percent hit. " And, having learned that the Reitman would put him, he gave immediate consent. The team of wrestlers with unpleasant ghosts was released, producing the effect of an exploding bomb. 298 million dollars of world box office. Valal spectators were falling into cinemas, looking for posters, cassettes, soundtracks. Toys, T -shirts, even hunters' costumes appeared on sale. No one expected such frantic popularity. This fantastic comedy for many years has become the hallmark of all the actors who played in it, and the director, the masterpiece of the genre, a model for all other comedies of this genre. Such success could not be left without continuation, and although the script, director and producers were ready to start filming at any moment, the actors who became popular had many other, no less profitable proposals. As you understood, Bill Murray persuaded the longest. He fought off his arms and legs, seriously believing that such a formula for success was working only once and should not tease fate. In addition, he participated in other projects. The second part of the "hunters" nevertheless released five years later. During this period of time, Murray starred in several wonderful films, including in the “Horror Stamp” and the masterpiece of Christmas History, where this is not the first time he was reincarnated in a selfish, narcissistic hypocrite. “Hunters for Goting-2” constituted a worthy continuation of the first film, gathering a good box office. Bill explained the smaller success of the second part as follows: “Then we still did not know how to work“ into the void ”. The abundance of special effects often did not allow us to warm up properly, and making the second film was not so fun - enthusiasm disappeared. ” Having finished work on the sequel of the “hunters”, Bill Murray approached the 90s with a completely established actor, a world-famous comedian, and in circles, he is even a man who shoulder a role on the shoulder. There were no special changes in personal life. Despite the fact that Bill and Margaret already had two children - Homer and Luke - gradually, relations with his wife began to crack, which, however, no one had doubted for a long time. “I feel so sorry for Mickey,” the compassionate Brian complained, “how does she blush him?” But the truth, having become a star, Bill was not going to pacify his behavior. On the contrary, starry added courage and confidence. And Murray became not only a well -known actor, but also a famous Hooligan Hollywood. Eh, how many noses they broke with the friend of Woody Harrelson on all sorts of parties - and do not count! Among such noses there was even an impressive nose of de Niro himself! True, this happened already in the 93rd and on the set, but it does not change the matter. Having quarreled with a partner, Murray in the scene of a fight in the film “The Frantic Dog and Glori” so stared De Niro on the nose that he broke him, but he could not put him against Murrey - Bill said that he simply entered the role!

While personal and public life was gradually deteriorating, a sharp rise was observed in the actor's career. In the 90th, the actor first tried himself in the directorial and production fields, making the film “Quick Change”, very favorably adopted by critics. In 1991, “But what about Bob?” (What ABOUT BOB)? ”- a cheerful and instructive comedy, where the charming hero of Murray- psychopath Bob Wiley- the focus of all conceivable and unthinkable phobias and fears- liked the viewer. Bill worked perfectly with Richard Dreyfus, many critics called their comedy couple the best movie theuite of the year. Finally, in 1993, Bill Murray played the role of his life, the role with which he is still associated in the minds of most people and is associated, the role that raised him to the very top of the Hollywood Olympus - we are talking, of course, about the role of Phil Connars in all his favorite comedy “Surri Day”. In the “Surka's Day”, all the best that the comedy American school accumulated for years - the excellent script of Denny Rubin and directing Harold Ramis (long Dr. Igan from the “hunters”), impeccable acting, amazing operator work, magnificent music, soft and subtle humor, and most importantly, mood. The role of Phil Connars, a selfish charm, was the culmination of all similar images created before that. It happens that the actor is ideal for the role, and Phil is only Murray, with all his jokes and sarcasm, with all its causticity and malice, with all the kind, but frozen heart, which Rita’s beauty performed by Andy MacDauel was able to melt. The comedy turned out to be such that even now it looks like for the first time! Success was huge, and Murray first received a 10 millionth fee. As usual, such a felt and thin film as “Surka's Day”, film academics did not seem to notice, although everyone - both the audience and the creators of the tape were sure that the film was more than worthy of Oscar. “Surok” decided a lot in the life of Murray - for example, he for a long time abandoned plans to change the role - why jump off a horse and try to overtake it when you are the first, albeit with her. But, if the career was beating with a key, then family life turned into hell. After 13 years of life together, his marriage with Margaret Kelly turned into a long and expensive divorce proceedings, on which Murray had to use all his exposure, so as not to break. “Using children against the father? Oh, I know what it is! I went through it! This is terrible, you can’t wish the enemy, ”says Murray. Since then, he is very rare and reluctant to spread about his family life. The oil was also added to the fire that even before the official divorce from Margaret, the artist of costume, Jennifer Batler, was born from Bill Murray, later it turned out that the novel was already several years old and that, having often quarreled with his wife, Bill found Jenny's arms. There was nothing more to talk about, in 1994 and Bill and Margaret forever deleted each other from life. In 1997, July 4, on Independence Day, Murray and Jennifer became husband and wife. By that time, they had already had three sons - the family tradition of the Murreev continued! Judging by both of them, they are absolutely happy in marriage, by the way, it was Jenny who was able to put Gulen and the rowdy of Murray, and for a long time he was not seen in any scandal, in general, the actor has settled down, although Golf was still in the first place.

The creative life of Bill Murray is also hit by the key; Since 1993, one after another, successful paintings have been released to varying degrees. Among them - the comedies “more than life” (1996), “The man who knew too little” (1997), in 1998, the exciting thriller “Wild Things” appeared, which became one of the hits of the season. It is also worth noting the tragicomedy “Rashmore Academy”, well -accepted by American criticism and the drama “Cradle Will Rock) that failed at the box office. The 21st century began, appearing on secondary roles in the brilliant “Angels of Charlie” and “Hamlet”, where Polonia played. The mention of the 2001 brothers Frelli “Osmosis Jones” (Osmosis Jones ”(Osmosis Jones), where Murray played the main not -ky character, is also worthy of mention of the Osmosis Jones-having received the opportunity to have fun again, to be a real pig and feel like a boy. In 2001, he receives the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards as the best second -plan actor for his role in the Angels of Charlie. Murray also starred in the witty comedies “Let's Talk about Sex” (2001) and “Royal Family of Tennenbaumes” (2001). However, not one of the comedies of Murray is a pure comedy, in every comic role, Murray finds a tragic subtext, fills his hero with such an extensive inner world that whoever he plays - he is everywhere unconditionally reliable. You believe in his heroes, you sympathize with and empathize with them. In 2003, Bill Murray again moved on the attack on dramatic roles. The director of the famous Francis Ford Coppola - Sofia wrote a script, young and not yet spoiled by Hollywood, where it was Murray in the main role. For a long time and actively, Sofia Coppola sought Murray's attention to his project, and he did not react for a long time, then refused, but Sofia achieved his own in vain. The film “Difficulties of Translation” was released on the screens. Bill Murray perfectly approached the role of Harris's immensely lonely and devastated Bob - his face was tired, as if stolen after a long sleep, his face became a symbol of the film. Стоит только камере остановиться на его лице, глазах, понимаешь – он верит в то, что делает, он живет своим героем, своей ролью. Было бы удивительно, если б Мюррея не номинировали на «Оскар» в категории «Лучший актер». Однако, уже в который раз, ошеломляющая своей психологичностью игра Билла Мюррея оказалась не понятой и не принятой киноакадемиками. Один из лучших фильмов последнего десятилетия остался практически без наград («Оскар» получила София Коппола – за лучший сценарий). Может, статуэтку он и не получил, но зато любовь и почитание зрителей только укрепились, а еще Биллу вручили «Золотой Глобус», как лучшему комедийному актеру и приз Британской киноакадемии за лучшую мужскую роль.

После «Трудностей» Билла, наконец-то, официально приняли в список драматических актеров, однако, Билл не был бы Биллом, если б вдруг снова резко не повернул к комедии — «Утомленные морем» иначе и не назовешь.