Brian Doyle-Murray

Brian Doyle-Murray
Born	Brian Murray (1945-10-31) October 31, 1945 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Other names	Brian Doyle
Occupation(s)	Actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter
Years active	1972–present
Spouse	Christina Stauffer ​ (m. 2000)​
Relatives	Bill Murray (brother) Joel Murray (brother) John Murray (brother)

Brian Doyle-Murray (born Brian Murray, October 31, 1945) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is the older brother of actor/comedian Bill Murray, and the two have acted together in several films, including Caddyshack, Scrooged, Ghostbusters II, The Razor's Edge, and Groundhog Day. He co-starred on the TBS sitcom on Sullivan & Son, where he played the foul-mouthed Hank Murphy. He appears in a recurring role as Don Ehlert on the ABC sitcom The Middle.

Doyle-Murray was nominated for three Emmy Awards in 1978, 1979, and 1980 for his work on Saturday Night Live in the category Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program. Two other younger brothers, Joel and John, are actors, as well. His oldest brother Ed is a businessman, and brother Andy is a chef, and runs the Murray Brothers "CaddyShack" restaurant located in the World Golf Village resort near St. Augustine, Florida. Doyle is his grandmother's maiden name, and he chose to hyphenate it to avoid confusion with another actor.

Early life

Murray, one of nine children, was born in Chicago, the son of Lucille (née Collins), a mail room clerk, and Edward J. Murray II, a lumber salesman. His parents were Irish American and Catholic. He is the older brother of actors Bill, Joel and John. A sister, Nancy, an Adrian Dominican Sister in Michigan, travels the country portraying St. Catherine of Siena. Doyle-Murray uses his hyphenated name (Doyle was his grandmother's maiden name) to avoid confusion with another actor of the same name. Brian attended Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga, California in the late 1960s.

Career

Murray worked at The Second City comedic stage troupe in the early 1970s. He has appeared in numerous films and television shows since then, including as a featured player on NBC's Saturday Night Live from 1979 to 1980 and from 1981 to 1982. He wrote for Jean Doumanian from 1980 to 1981, one of the few cast members to work for all three producers of SNL (Lorne Michaels, Jean Doumanian, and Dick Ebersol). He was a regular on The National Lampoon Radio Hour, a comedy program syndicated nationally to 600 stations from 1973 to 1975. Co-workers on the Radio Hour included Richard Belzer, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Harold Ramis, and younger brother Bill. He appears in many films with his brother, Bill Murray. However, he has also landed roles in other films. Early on, he appeared in Modern Problems alongside Chevy Chase. Again, years later, he memorably appeared as Chevy Chase's uptight boss, Frank Shirley, in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), and co-starred as arcade tycoon Noah Vanderhoff in the film version of Wayne's World (1992). He landed a small role as assassin Jack Ruby in JFK (1991). He was seen in the movie Snow Dogs (2002). His most recent role was in 17 Again (2009).

He was Mel Sanger, the bubble boy's dad, on Seinfeld, and played Joe Hackett's high school baseball coach on a 1992 episode of Wings. He co-starred of the Fox TV series Get a Life and Bakersfield P.D. from 1991 to 1992 and 1993 to 1994, respectively, with a recurring role as sports editor Stuart Franklin on the Fox/UPN TV series Between Brothers from 1997 to 1999. He played studio head and Greg Warner's (Anthony Clark) boss George Savitsky on Yes Dear. He played Shawn Spencer's grandfather on the episode "The Old and the Restless" on the USA Network TV series Psych, with an uncredited cameo in the sixth season. He had a recurring role as Mr. Ehlert, owner of the car dealership where Frankie and Bob work on the ABC-TV series The Middle. He co-starred on the TBS sitcom on Sullivan & Son, where he played the foul-mouthed Hank Murphy.

Voice work

Known for his gruff voice, Murray voiced the Flying Dutchman on Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants, appearing in one episode of The Angry Beavers ("Dag Con Carny") as Smelly Jim, a small role as the Grandfather on Lloyd in Space, Coach Gills on Cartoon Network's My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Captain K'nuckles on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, and Maggie's dad on Disney Channel's The Buzz on Maggie. He has also appeared as Salty in the Family Guy episode "A Fish out of Water", the voice of Jack the barber on King of the Hill, the voice of the mayor in the Ghostbusters video game, the voice of Qui the Promoter in the 2005 video game Jade Empire, a minor appearance on the Disney show Recess during a YoYo competition, Prince Huge on Adventure Time in the episode "The Hard Easy", Charlie in Mike Judge's The Goode Family, and Jacob on Motorcity. Murray was also contracted to voice Eustace in the cancelled reboot of Courage the Cowardly Dog.

Filmography

As actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1975	Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell	Various characters	Television series Television debut Also writer
1979–1980 1981–1982	Saturday Night Live		Television series Also writer
1980	Caddyshack	Lou Loomis	Film debut
1981	Modern Problems	Brian Stills
1983	National Lampoon's Vacation	Kamp Komfort Clerk
1984	The Razor's Edge	Piedmont
	Sixteen Candles	Reverend
1985	Head Office	Colonel Toliver
1986	Legal Eagles	Shaw
	Club Paradise	Voit Zerbe
1988	Scrooged	Mr. Cross
1989	The Experts	Mr. Jones
	The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars	Wittgenstein
	How I Got Into College	Coach Evans
	Ghostbusters II	Psychiatric doctor
	National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation	Frank Shirley
	The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue	Wittgenstein
1991	JFK	Jack Ruby
	Nothing but Trouble	Brian
	Good Sports	John "Mac" MacKinney	Television series
1991–1992	Get a Life	Gus Borden
1992	Wayne's World	Noah Vanderhoff
	Married... with Children	Wayne	Television series
	Wings	Coach Snyder	Television series
	Frosty Returns	Mr. Twitchell	Television film
	Seinfeld	Mel Sanger	Television series Episode: The Bubble Boy
1993	Groundhog Day	Buster Green
1994	Jury Duty	Harry
1995	Cabin Boy	Skunk
	Ellen	Burt Kovak	Television series
1996	Waiting for Guffman	Red Savage
	Multiplicity	Walt
	Duckman	Agnes
1997	Smart Guy	Pete Gilroy	Television series
1997–1999	Between Brothers	Stuart Franklin
1997	As Good as It Gets	Handyman
1998	Mr. Show with Bob and David	Referee	Television series Episode: "It's Perfectly Understandishable"
	Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story	Baloo
	Dennis the Menace Strikes Again	Professor
	The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars	Wittgenstein
1999	The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
1999–2000	Love & Money	Finn McBride
1999–present	SpongeBob SquarePants	The Flying Dutchman	Television series
1999	Stuart Little	Cousin Edgar Little
2000	Jackie Chan Adventures	Gnome Cop	Television series
	Bedazzled	Priest
2001–2006	Yes, Dear	Mr. George Savitsky	Recurring role Television series
2001	Getting Hal	Phil
	Justice League	Artie Bauman	Voice Television series
2002	A Gentleman's Game	Tomato Face
	Snow Dogs	Ernie
	Teamo Supremo	The Chief	Main role Television series
2005–2006	The Buzz on Maggie	Chuck Pesky	Main role Television series
2005	My Gym Partner's a Monkey	Coach Tiffany Gills
	Jade Empire	Qui the Promoter	Voice Video game
2006	Tom Goes to the Mayor	Bernie Fusterillo	Voice Television series
2007	Daddy Day Camp	"Uncle" Morty	Main role
	Love Comes Lately	Boss
2008–2010	The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack	Captain K'nuckles	Main role Television series
2009	17 Again	The Janitor
	The Goode Family	Charlie	Television series Main role
	Ghostbusters: The Video Game	Mayor Jock Mulligan	Video Game
2009–2015	The Middle	Don Ehlert	Television series Recurring role
2010	WordGirl	Police officer	Television series
	Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil	Glenn
2011	Supernatural	Robert Singer
2012–2014	Sullivan & Son	Hank Murphy	Main role Television series
2012	Motorcity	Jacob
	Eye of the Hurricane	Harvey Miken
	Adventure Time	Prince Huge	Television series
	The Three Stooges	Monsignor Ratliffe
2013	Raising Hope	Walt	Television series
2014	2 Broke Girls	Blarney Bill	Television series
	Christmas Under Wraps	Mr. Holiday/Santa Claus	Made for TV Movie
2015	Underdogs	The Boss
2016	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	Sea Captain	Television series
2016	Veep	George Huntzinger	Television series

As writer

Year	Title	Notes
1973–1974	The National Lampoon Radio Hour	Radio series
1975	Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell	Also cast member
1976	The TVTV Show	Television series
1976–1979	SCTV
1977–1982	Saturday Night Live	Also cast member Television series Nominated—Outstanding Writing in a Comedy – Variety or Music Series (1978) Nominated—Outstanding Writing in a Comedy, Variety, or Music Series (1979) Nominated—Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program (1980)
1980	Caddyshack	Writer with Harold Ramis and Doug Kenney Film
1982	The Rodney Dangerfield Show: It's Not Easy Bein' Me	Television series
1986	Club Paradise	Writer with Harold Ramis Film Also cast member
1993	The Chevy Chase Show	Television series
2002	The Sweet Spot

External links

• Brian Doyle-Murray at IMDb