Nickname:	Rick Moranis / Richard Moranis /
Known for:	Ghost Busters, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Little Shop of Horrors
Birth name:	Frederick Alan Moranis
Birthday:	18 April 1953, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height:	5' 4" (1.63 m)

Was widowed in the early 1990s when his wife died of cancer. He has two children from that marriage. Moranis and Dave Thomas originally created the characters Bob and Doug McKenzie in protest against government requirements for "identifiable Canadian content" in domestically produced television programming. The skits, as an SCTV program "The Great White North" featured two dim witted brothers who combined as many negative Canadian stereotypes as possible. Despite this, they became so popular that the skits were included in the U.S. version of the program, and Moranis and Thomas were made members of the Order of Canada for their contribution to Canadian culture. Was the afternoon deejay on Toronto radio station CHUM-FM in the Seventies. Using the on-air name of "Rick Allen" he was the overnight deejay on Toronto radio station CFTR-AM in the early Seventies after that station switched formats from Beautiful Music to Top 40. Along with Dave Thomas, scored a Billboard Top 40 hit in 1982 called "Take Off" as Bob and Doug MacKenzie in a duet with Rush lead singer Geddy Lee. Went to school with Geddy Lee from Rush He made the cover of the first issue of Disney Adventures in 1990.

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