Brian Doyle-Murray
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Brian Doyle-Murray (born October 31, 1945, in Evanston, Illinois) is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter. Born Brian Murray, he adopted the hyphenated stage name, incorporating his grandmother's maiden name Doyle, to distinguish himself from another actor using the same name. He is the older brother of actors Bill Murray and Joel Murray. Like his brother Bill, he worked at The Second City comedy troupe in the early 1970s and appeared on The National Lampoon Radio Hour. He joined NBC's Saturday Night Live as a writer during Season 3 in 1978 and became a featured performer in Season 5, earning three consecutive Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program between 1978 and 1980.
In Ghostbusters II (1989), he portrayed the Psychiatric Doctor who examines the Ghostbusters after their arrest. He also voiced Mayor Jock Mulligan in Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009), a role he took on after the game's development team originally planned the mayoral character for David Margulies. Behind the scenes, Doyle-Murray's participation in the video game proved significant: after he reviewed the game and expressed approval, his brother Bill Murray agreed within days to reprise his role as Peter Venkman.
He has collaborated with Bill Murray on several other films, including Caddyshack (1980), The Razor's Edge (1984), Scrooged (1988), and Groundhog Day (1993). He is also recognized for his recurring voice role as the Flying Dutchman in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. In IDW Publishing's Ghostbusters 101 #2, a golfer on page 1 is visually based on his character Lou Loomis from Caddyshack.