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)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Was widowed in 1991 when his wife died of liver cancer. He has two children from that marriage. Was the afternoon deejay on Toronto radio station CHUM-FM in the Seventies. 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. He made the cover of the first issue of Disney Adventures in 1990. Was invited to the party Steve Martin was throwing that turned out to be his wedding. Was considered for the role of Governor Lewis in Evolution (2001). Following the death of his wife in 1991, the difficulty of raising their two children on his own, and his increasing disenchantment with Hollywood, Moranis retired from acting in 1997. He had intended the retirement to be a sabbatical of a couple of years, but later realized that he didn't miss the pressure. He still does occasional voice work, e.g. Brother Bear (2003).

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