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Rick Moranis (1953-) is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film director. Moranis gained his first interiority from the television series Second City Television (SCTV). After appearing in many high profile movies in the 1980s and 1990s, Moranis semi-retired to raise his children after his wife passed away. His IMDb page shows over 42 acting credits since 1976. This page will rank Rick Moranis movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.
Rick Moranis Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Rick Moranis Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Best IMDb Trivia On Rick Moranis
1. Frederick Allan “Rick” Moranis was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1953. His career as an entertainer began as a radio disc jockey in the mid-1970s, using the on-air name “Rick Allan” at three Toronto radio stations.
2. Rick Moranis character in Ghostbusters (1984), Louis Tully, was originally written for John Candy. Moranis was brought in as a last-minute replacement when Candy dropped out. Moranis, Candy and Ghostbusters co-star Harold Ramis are all alumni of SCTV (1976).
3. The name of Rick Moranis’ character, Billy Fish, in 1984’s Streets of Fire, is a reference to the translator/sidekick character Billy Fish in The Man Who Would Be King (1975).
4. Rick Moranis has appeared with Steve Martin in four films: Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Parenthood (1989), My Blue Heaven (1990), L.A. Story (1991).
5.Rick Moranis was cast as Phil in City Slickers (1991), but his wife became terminally ill before filming began and he chose to pull out. Daniel Stern replaced him in the role at the last minute.
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My wife gave me The Best of SCTV: THe Early Years for my birthday. Now we can relive Bob and Doug McKenzie. Remember their # 16 peaking hit on Billboard ” Take Off”.
Many years ago I was a dispatcher at a messenger service (pre internet/e-mail days) and we had Warner Brothers, Sony (Columbia and Tri-Star at the time) and Broadway Video (Saturday Night Live) as customers. Warner’s sent out tons of private invites to previews of their movies. Since Rick lived somewhere on the upper west side of Manhattan we were always delivering to his residence (probably the doorman accepted all deliveries).
Hey Dan….I remember Take Off playing on the radio back in my high school days…I have not heard that song in ages. That is an interesting story about your dispatcher days. I agree…the doorman was probably getting those packages. Good stuff…but no lists?
Rick’s not in my database, thought his career was too brief. I didn’t know anything about his personal life, just remember the papers saying back then that he retired.
Hey Dan…thanks for the clarification.
HI BRUCE: Thanks for the feedback – always appreciated.
Regarding your not connecting up the Billy Fish dots, I too learned something new today when I was revisiting Laddie’s page to get some stats to support my argument that you neglected Alan in your Screen Duos tables. Here’s a copy of what I found
“COGERSON TRIVIA ITEM 5: ALAN LADD PAGE
Alan Ladd was the visual inspiration for the original illustrations of superhero Green Lantern/Alan Scott (created in 1940). Ladd was 27 years old at the point. The Green Lantern’s full name is Alan Ladd Wellington Scott.”
In all the times that I have visited Laddie’s page that item never sunk in with me; I guess I was just so overcome with excitement at getting and revisiting Alan’s stats to notice everything on the page in my reoccupation; so belated thanks for sharing it with your viewers. I wonder does Steve, a big action/super hero fan know that?
Take care.
Hey Bob……glad my Billy Fish trivia got your inspired to finally read the Alan Ladd trivia….lol. Maybe this will get you to like superhero movies more….just picture Alan Ladd in the Ryan Reynolds role in the Green Lantern.Good stuff as always.
Full marlks to Rick the ‘family man’ for giving a priority to his family after the sad passing away of his wife; they didn’t have that long together. Artistic satisfaction aside it appears Rick doesn’t NEED to work as despite his long absence he has been able to hold back a respectable net worth of $10 million. This compares as follows with the net worth of each of his other Ghostbuster pals:
Dan Ackroyd $180 million
Bill Murray $140 million
Harold Ramis $50 million
Sigourney Weaver $50 million
Ernie Hudson $5 million; and
Dave Thomas [Ricky’s Strange Brew chum] $3 million
I’ve seen 3 of Ricky’s movies: Ghostbusters 1 and 2 and LA Story. Amazing to think that it’s been17 years since he last had a cinematic release; though Brother Bear 2 was made in 2006 but went straight to DVD.
Ricky has also worked in television since 1981 but only sporadically since 1985 – 14 appearance in all; he made a Flintstones video game in 1994 in which he was Barney Rubble; and between 1981 and 2013 was involved with 8 album/soundtrack/audio-video projects.
It’s good to see from WH’s helpful link that Ricky is returning to the big screen with Shrunk. On the small screen, scheduled for release this year is An Afternoon with SCTV a Canadian-American comedy web television special reuniting the cast of Second City Television including Rick that is set to premiere on Netflix and CTV.
IMDB credits Rick with 3 awards and 4 noms in relation to a mixture of writing/acting/musical album achievements. Anyway one gets tired about reading about Virginians on this site and it’s nice to see a ‘real-deal’ Canuck getting a look-in by way new page; so “Voted Up.”
Hey Bob….I found three comments in the Spam folder….it looks like this is the one you wanted on the page. Sadly…when you were sending your comment…..the website was under spam attack….2,000 comments attempted to drop on the website in 10 minutes….the spam defense was busy defending the site….and snagged your comments as well. So it was Yes88it’s fault. But your comment is now safe.
HI BRUCE
Many thanks for your help. You identified the one I wanted on the page- good thinking Batman as the saying goes!!
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Have twice tried to get a post throiugh on this page but it is not yet showing up. I will continue to check-out the situation and in meantime have retained a copy.
Hey Bob….I found three comments in the Spam folder….it looks like this is the one you wanted on the page. Sadly…when you were sending your comment…..the website was under spam attack….2,000 comments attempted to drop on the website in 10 minutes….the spam defense was busy defending the site….and snagged your comments as well. So it was Yes88it’s fault. But your comment is now safe.
Hey Bob….thanks for the thoughts, visit, tally count and comment on Rick Moranis. I have seen 18 of his 20 movies…or 90%. Interesting about the net worth of the Ghostbusters and some of their clients. So Dan has more money than Bill. I guess I would have guessed that.
17 years since a voice role, but another 7 years since Big Bully….so 24 years since Moranis was seen on the big screen. I wonder if he is in the new Ghostbusters movie. Good information on his television roles and the kudos for him for taking care of his family,
Looking at the trivia….#3 blew me away….I love trivia like that….and as many times that I have seen The Man Who Would Be King and Streets Of Fire….I never connected those Billy Fish dots, Good stuff as always….sorry that your comments went ot Spam.
I read this yesterday…and today we have a Rick Moranis Page. Trying to stay topical.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/rick-moranis-returns-big-screen-170612850.html