A diminutive, rumpled comic actor, Rick Moranis has specialized in playing gawky, maladroit characters. A... (Learn more)
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Rick Moranis’s Milestones
| Joined "Second City TV" syndicated TV series during its third season on CBC as a performer/writer | |
| Performed on Toronto cabaret circuit in the 1970s | |
| Series regular on and writer for "SCTV Network 90" series | |
| Supplied the voice of the high school teacher protagonist of the Saturday morning animated children's program, "Rick Moranis in Gravedale High" | |
| 1971 | Began career as a part-time radio engineer in Toronto, Ontario while still in high school; supplied station's deejays with funny one-liners which led to his own radio show which he hosted and wrote (date approximate) |
| 1975 | Moved to Los Angeles (for five weeks) |
| 1981 | Recorded first comedy album, "Great White North" (with Dave Thomas) |
| 1982 | Featured on NBC TV pilot, "Twilight Theatre II" |
| 1983 | Film acting, co-directing and co-writing (with Dave Thomas) debut in "Strange Brew" |
| 1984 | Had small, but memorable role as nerdy, possessed Louis in the blockbuster hit "Ghostbusters" |
| 1986 | Starred as nebbish Seymour in the black comedy/musical film version of "Little Shop of Horrors"; first movie with Steve Martin |
| 1987 | Played Darth Vader-like villain in Mel Brooks' "Star Wars" spoof "Spaceballs" |
| 1989 | Cast in the superb ensemble comedy "Parenthood" |
| 1989 | First hit film, "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" |
| 1989 | Reprised role in "Ghostbusters II" |
| 1990 | Co-starred with Martin in "My Blue Heaven" |
| 1991 | Played an uncredited cameo role as a gravedigger in the Martin's comedy, "LA Story" |
| 1994 | Starred in the kids football flick "Little Giants" |
| 1994 | Was the perfect live-action Barney Rubble in "The Flintstones", starring John Goodman and Rosie O'Donnell |
| 1995 | Acted in the high-school revenge comedy "Big Bully" |
| 1997 | Appeared in "Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves", the second sequel to "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" |
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