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Rick Moranis (1953-) is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film director. Moranis gained his first interiority from the television series Second City Television (SCTV). After appearing in many high profile movies in the 1980s and 1990s, Moranis semi-retired to raise his children after his wife passed away. His IMDb page shows over 42 acting credits since 1976. This page will rank Rick Moranis movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.
Rick Moranis Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Rick Moranis Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Best IMDb Trivia On Rick Moranis
1. Frederick Allan “Rick” Moranis was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1953. His career as an entertainer began as a radio disc jockey in the mid-1970s, using the on-air name “Rick Allan” at three Toronto radio stations.
2. Rick Moranis character in Ghostbusters (1984), Louis Tully, was originally written for John Candy. Moranis was brought in as a last-minute replacement when Candy dropped out. Moranis, Candy and Ghostbusters co-star Harold Ramis are all alumni of SCTV (1976).
3. The name of Rick Moranis’ character, Billy Fish, in 1984’s Streets of Fire, is a reference to the translator/sidekick character Billy Fish in The Man Who Would Be King (1975).
4. Rick Moranis has appeared with Steve Martin in four films: Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Parenthood (1989), My Blue Heaven (1990), L.A. Story (1991).
5.Rick Moranis was cast as Phil in City Slickers (1991), but his wife became terminally ill before filming began and he chose to pull out. Daniel Stern replaced him in the role at the last minute.
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Rick Moranis was in Parenthood with Dianne Wiest who was in Hannah and Her Sisters with Michael Caine.
Rick was in Ghostbusters 2 with Ernie Hudson who was in Miss Congeniality with Michael Caine
Rick was in Splitting Heirs with John Cleese who was in Bullseye with Michael Caine.
Rick was in Parenthood with Joaquin Phoenix who was in Quills With Michael Caine.
Rick was in The Flintstones with Elizabeth Taylor who was in Zee and Co. with Michael Caine.
Rick was in Splitting Heirs with Catherine Zeta-Jones who was in Red 2 with Bruce Willis.
Rick was in Streets of Fire with Willem Dafoe who was in Motherless Brooklyn with Bruce Willis.
Rick was in Little Shop of Horrors with John Candy who was in 1941 with Christopher Lee.
Rick was in Parenthood with Jason Robards who was in Julius Caesar with Christopher Lee.
Rick was in Honey, I Blew Up the Kid with Lloyd Bridges who was in Bear Island with Christopher Lee.
Shocked he has been away so long. I wonder if he will be in the Ghostbusters movie this summer? Without a doubt Ghostbusters is my favorite movie of his. I have seen that one so many times. Glad to hear he is coming back.
Hey Taylor. I have read that all of the original Ghostbusters are coming back….yet I have not read that Moranis was included in that. Yep…he has been gone from the big screen for almost a quarter of a century. I,like you, am glad he is coming back. Good stuff.
Rick Moranis will be 67 years old this year (2020), wow, comedians get old too. 😉 Steve Martin must be nearly 70, Chevy Chase even older. Who are their equivalents today? Melissa McCarthy? Kevin Hart?
I’ve seen 15 of the 20 films on the chart. Favorites are – Ghostbusters 1 & 2, Spaceballs, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Little Shop of Horrors, Parenthood and Streets of Fire.
Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire is a cult favorite I’ve watched many times in the 1980s but it’s probably my least favorite Rick Moranis role.
He was great in Little Shop of Horrors but the film was stolen by Steve Martin’s sadistic dentist.
Billy Fish, I’m a fan of both films but didn’t make the connection until I saw the trivia.
Good stuff Bruce, Vote Up!
Hey Steve…thanks for the thoughts on Rick Moranis. Interesting points about the aging comedians. I guess looking at Saturday Night Live would be a good place to look. Chase and Martin would be first generation. Moranis, Candy and Murphy would be the next generation. Then maybe the Sandler, Spade Rock era. Hart and McCarthy would be in the last bath and this batch…Andy Samberg? Ok…back to Rick.
Tally count…I have seen 18 of his movies…only missing Spliting Heirs and Strange Brew. I am pretty sure I have seen Strange Brew…but remember almost nothing about it….so I am not including it. Good to see we both enjoyed Streets Of Fire. I also agree his Billy Fish is one my least favorite Moranis roles. Speaking of Billy Fish…glad I could alert you to that “interesting to me” trivia. Good stuff as always.
A certain British politician who was once a junior Government minister was widely known to be a ladies man, to the extent that it was suggested that he had had affairs with the wives of close political colleagues; and had maybe even romanced, or tried to romance, the daughters of a few friends. [He reminded me personally of George Sanders in 1956’s Death of a Scoundrel].
The gossip wasn’t firm enough to bring down the politician concerned; but ultimately a shadowy connection with a financial scandal did for him. He couldn’t play the family card because his wife, a very nice lady, had understandably long since left him, so his cover for resigning with dignity was that he had always wanted to see more of the world and wished to do so while he still had his health and strength.
However a journalist who did not like him quipped in a column “I don’t believe a word of it. He’s always been an admirable family man and he’s really leaving office so that he can spend more time with the wives and families of his friends!”
Anyway in my opinion Rick’s richly deserves the opportunity now to make up for a bit of lost times, so let’s hope he gets it. Take care.
Hey Bob…for a second…I thought you were going to say like George Clooney….but no…it was George Sanders. Interesting story about the Non Family Man….and good quip. Time to begin another long long day.
HI BRUCE: To redeem themselves and survive your politicians of all persuasions seem to get away with even crazier stunts than ours could ever do, possibly because Americans can be more emotional and sentimental than we are. Here’s one of my all time favourite ‘pass-the-sick-bag’ master-class pieces of hypocrisy:
THE CHECKERS SPEECH
The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952 by California Senator Richard Nixon, the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States. Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him for his political expenses.
His place was in doubt on the Republican ticket [and Ike wanted him off it anyway] so Nixon flew to Los Angeles and delivered a half-hour television address in which he defended himself, attacked his opponents, and urged the audience to contact the Republican National Committee (RNC) to tell it whether he should remain on the ticket.
During the speech, he stated that he intended to keep one gift, regardless of the outcome: a black-and-white dog that his children loved, had named Checkers, and would sorely miss, thus giving the address its popular name. After that speech Eisenhower was bombarded with letters of support for “Tricky Dicky” and had to keep him on the ticket against Ike’s own wishes; and the impropriety allegations were buried in a seas o tears from weeping Americans!
I am returning to these exchanges because I haven’t been able to get out of my mind an actor [ie Rick] prioritizing ANYTHING over his/her career when it is in its prime. It is truly commendable when one thinks that whilst often thespians are at first like kids with new toys when marriage and children come along, sadly all too soon it is the family life that can be put on the back burner; though of course one must admire those who can combine successful careers with stable marriages.
Indeed over here politicians and other public figures who are caught up in some scandal or other, or are shown to be totally inefficient in their jobs, cynically play the “family card” on occasions as a superficial cloak for stepping down from office/job when they are ultimately forced to do so by public opinion “I am stepping down so that I can spend more time with my family,” they will trot out, though nobody believes them.
I am aware that on this site you do not like us to dwell too long on the unpleasant or negative side of human nature and matters. [Indeed I often think that if it was not a contradiction in terms to the tag UMR you would list just the successes of Mr. Gimme More and Sir M and leave out their flops, and to balance things out list Brando’s flops only!; though it must be said that once he had come into his own and put behind him the bragging Mae West, Archie had few flops even up to the very end.] I will therefore finish off in Part 2 on a humorous note albeit connected to a true story.
Hey Bob…I agree…..Rick Moranis’ decision should be applauded. It probably made a very rough time for his kids slightly better. Interesting about your public figures…..but that is sort of how things work around here. I do not have an issue with including the flops…that is part of their movie careers…which are fair game….doing the stuff on their negative personal stuff is where I draw the line. As for Cary Grant…I could argue his final movies were still successful at the box office…..just not as impressive artistically as his classics….though I love Father Goose (his 2nd to last movie). Walk Don’t Run sent him into retirement….is far from a good movie….but it did make 4 million in rentals…thus making the Variety All-Time Grossers list that I grew up reading every year. Good stuff.
HI BRUCE: My faves among Archie’s movies are To Catch a Thief, Affair to Remember, That Touch of Mink with my Doris and North by Northwest. I liked none of his pre-1950s films except Notorious and Suspicion; and among his later films I thought The Pride and the Passion was dire and Kiss them for Me uninteresting. I didn’t like Father Goose as it reminded me of a kind of reworking of Bogie and Katie’s African Queen, but it was great box office. It was in fact the last Leach movie that I can remember seeing in a cinema. Say – didn’t Bob Mitchum make a film called The Last Time I saw Archie?!!!
As I’ve mentioned before when Al was making Touch of Mink, Doris told him that he was just her 2nd fave actor of all time and that Cagney was her first. Diplomatic Archibald replied that he could live with that!
In fairness to Mr Gimme More it should be stressed that he has entered the later stages of his stardom in an era where movies have had to fight the competition from muli alternative entertainment outlets that didn’t exist is say the thirties and forties and later.
Also the studio system being long gone he hasn’t had a team of studio executives and other employees working 24/7 finding and setting up prestige vehicles for him and surrounding him with other mega stars. At one stage MGM had a whole host of stars that it could put into just one film if it wished: think Grand Hotel. That always makes it harder to compare one histoical movie era with another: “The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.”