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Bill Murray

Apex — Ghostbusters (1984)
23,540 feet (Camp III)
88th highest of 108

The highest-grossing comedy ever made at the time, and he improvised most of it. Stripes was the audition.

The career, climbed — every film on the shared Everest scale; hover for detail

Summit · 28,000Death Zone · 26,247Camp III · 23,500Camp II · 20,5001975767778791980818283841985868788891990919293941995969798992000010203042005060708092010111213142015161718192020212223242025

Filmography

FilmYearElevation
Ghostbusters ▲ apex198422,566 ft
Ghostbusters II198922,378 ft
Lost in Translation200322,378 ft
Scrooged198822,272 ft
Stripes198122,254 ft
Groundhog Day199322,194 ft
The Razor's Edge198422,187 ft
Garfield200422,179 ft
What About Bob?199122,166 ft
The Jungle Book201622,151 ft
St. Vincent201422,145 ft
Quick Change199022,118 ft
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou200422,117 ft
Broken Flowers200522,116 ft
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties200622,049 ft
The Man Who Knew Too Little199722,015 ft
On the Rocks202022,012 ft
The Dead Don't Die201922,011 ft
Rock the Kasbah201522,006 ft
A Very Murray Christmas201522,006 ft
Where the Buffalo Roam198021,999 ft
Meatballs197921,967 ft
Larger Than Life199621,932 ft
Hyde Park on Hudson201221,906 ft
Rushmore199821,853 ft
Get Low201021,806 ft
The Friend202521,805 ft
The Monuments Men201421,766 ft
Tootsie198221,752 ft
Nothing Lasts Forever198421,743 ft
City of Ember200821,712 ft
Mad Dog and Glory199321,706 ft
Charlie's Angels200021,684 ft
The Royal Tenenbaums200121,677 ft
Caddyshack198021,675 ft
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III201321,675 ft
Speaking of Sex200121,671 ft
Passion Play201121,667 ft
The Greatest Beer Run Ever202221,660 ft
Aloha201521,659 ft
Kingpin199621,657 ft
Moonrise Kingdom201221,625 ft
The Grand Budapest Hotel201421,622 ft
Zombieland200921,603 ft
Wild Things199821,599 ft
Fantastic Mr. Fox200921,597 ft
Isle of Dogs201821,593 ft
Ghostbusters: Afterlife202121,590 ft
Hamlet200021,589 ft
Get Smart200821,586 ft
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania202321,582 ft
The Lost City200521,578 ft
Riff Raff202521,577 ft
Osmosis Jones200121,576 ft
Little Shop of Horrors198621,574 ft
Ed Wood199421,574 ft
Ghostbusters201621,573 ft
Zombieland: Double Tap201921,573 ft
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire202421,572 ft
Dumb and Dumber To201421,571 ft
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun202121,571 ft
Coffee and Cigarettes200421,570 ft
The Darjeeling Limited200721,570 ft
The Phoenician Scheme202521,570 ft
She's Having a Baby198821,569 ft
Next Stop, Greenwich Village197621,568 ft
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash197821,568 ft
Cradle Will Rock199921,568 ft
The Limits of Control200921,568 ft
Space Jam199621,566 ft
The Missing Link198021,563 ft