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The date of birth of Frederick Alan "Rick" Moranis is April 18, 1954. The actor’s native town is Toronto. Rick Moranis grew up in a Jewish family. In the 1970s he worked (under the name Rick Allen) as a disk jockey at the various radio stations in Toronto. Together with Ken Finklmen they created a great comedy radio show for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The acting career of Rick Maranis began on television in 1977. Moranis is known as one of "McKenzie Brothers”, who are a couple of comic characters. This duet was created by him and Dave Thomas, as a protest against the nationalization of Canadian television. Later, Moranis and Thomas were awarded the “Order of Canada” for their contribution to the country's culture. "The Brothers McKenzie" debuted on the screen in the movie in 1983 in the film "Strange Beer" (1983). As a comic, actor Rick Moranis, is best known through the fantastic movie "Ghostbusters I-II» (1984-1989), great parodies of Mel Brooks of "Star Wars" - "Space balls" (1987), the film version of "Flintstones" (1994). Also the actor took part in the TV series about half-crazy inventor Wayne Shali - the first in this series was the film "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" (1989). Rick is a popular comedian of America.

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Here you can learn about the movies Rick Moranis acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
The Flintstones - Barney Rubble	$45M	1994		$131M
Ghostbusters II - Louis Tully	$37M	1989		$112M
Ghostbusters - Louis Tully, Writer (uncredited)	$32M	1984	$13.6M	$239M
Little Shop of Horrors - Seymour Krelborn, Soundtrack (performer: "Skid Row (Downtown)", "Da-Doo", "Grow For Me", "Feed Me (Git It)", "Suddenly, Seymour", "The Meek Shall Inherit")	$25M	1986		$38.7M
Spaceballs - Dark Helmet	$22.7M	1987		$38.1M
Brewster's Millions - Morty King	$20M	1985		$38.8M
Big Bully - David Leary	$15M	1996		$4.08M
Club Paradise - Barry Nye	$15M	1986		$12.3M
Streets of Fire - Billy Fish	$14.5M	1984		$5.6M
The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew - Bob McKenzie, Writer (written by), Director	$4M	1983
Little Giants - Danny O'Shea		1994		$19.3M
My Blue Heaven - Barney Coopersmith		1990		$23.6M
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (video) - Wayne Szalinski		1997
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys (video) - The Toy Taker/Mr. Cuddles the Teddy Bear (voice) (as Richard Moranis)		2001
Brother Bear - Rutt (voice)		2003	$292K	$85.3M
The Wild Life - Harry		1984		$9.5M
Sing Along Songs: Brother Bear - On My Way (video short) - Actor		2003
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids - Wayne Szalinski		1989		$131M
Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (short) - Wayne Szalinski (uncredited)		1994
Head Office - Howard Gross		1985		$1.46M