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Rick Moranis
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Screenwriter, Actor Born: April 18, 1954 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada Biography:While still attending high school in Toronto, "Rick Moranis" held down a part-time job as a radio engineer. After working as a solo nightclub comic and radio deejay, Moranis joined the Second City comedy troupe, which lead to his television bow in 1980 on the syndicated weekly Second City TV. Like his SCTV colleagues, Moranis' strong suit was his versatility, though his early fame rested on a single characterization. Grudgingly honoring a Canadian regulatory requirement that "Second City TV" include a sequence of "identifiable Canadian content" in each episode, Moranis and "Dave Thomas" created the characters of Bob and Doug McKenzie, a pair of beer-guzzling, back-bacon-chewing "hosers" who allegedly represented certain Canadians. The largely improvised McKenzie brothers segments scored an immediate hit, spawning a 1983 feature film "Strange Brew," which Moranis and Thomas starred in, co-wrote and... Full Biography
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