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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Screenwriter, Actor Born: October 31, 1945 in Chicago, IL Biography:American actor/writer "Brian Doyle-Murray" began his professional performing career at Chicago's Second City comedy troupe. Once established, Brian was instrumental in bringing his younger brother Bill into Second City. While "Bill Murray"'s star ascended, Brian stayed busy as a writer and comic character actor. He co-wrote the 1980 comedy hit "Caddyshack" and had choice supporting roles in such films as "Modern Problems" (1981), "Club Paradise" (1986) and "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" (1989). Brian has also appeared to excellent effect in several of his brother Bill's starring features, most recently in the hilarious role of the lugubrious mayor of Punxsutawney in "Groundhog Day" (1993). One of the staff writers of the earliest years of Saturday Night Live, "Brian Doyle-Murray" has remained active on television as a guest actor, as a regular on the 1991 sitcom Good Sports, and in such made... Full Biography
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