Brian Doyle-Murray

Brian Doyle-Murray married Christina Stauffer quite late in his life. The couple got married on August 28, 2000, when Murray was 55 years old. They remain married to this day.

Murray currently resides in his house in Moraga, California along with his wife.

Brian Murray was born on 31st October, 1945, to Edward J. Murray and Lucille Murray in Chicago. His father was a lumber salesman while his mother was a mail room clerk. He has eight siblings, of which three, Bill, Joel, and John, are actors like him. His elder brother, Ed, runs a business while one of his younger brothers, Andy, is a chef.

His family is of Irish descent and devout Catholics. Brian adopted his grandmother’s maiden name, Doyle, and uses it with his surname, making his full name Brian Doyle-Murray.

He graduated from Saint Mary’s College of California, situated in Moraga, California, in the year 1968.

Murray’s career in the film industry started in 1972 when he played the part of a detective in the comedy movie ‘Fuzz’. He was a part of the improvisational comedy troupe known as “The Second City”. This theatre troupe, which has also ventured into the television and movie industries in both Canada and the United States, has an impressive list of alumni which includes, in addition to the Murray brothers, award winning actors, writers and directors such as Tina Frey, Steve Carell, John Candy and Stephen Colbert.

Murray was a part of this group for a long time. He has appeared on a number of movies and television shows while with The Second City, the most notable of which was ‘Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell’ in 1975-76. The same year he also appeared in ‘The TVTV Show’. He was also a writer for these shows.

Brian also tried his hand in radio. In 1973, he became a regular member on ‘The National Lampoon Radio Hour’. The show was a hit and was broadcast across the country on over 600 stations. The show ended in 1975 after a successful three year gig. While working there, Brian rubbed shoulders with the likes of John Belushi, Richard Belzer, Harold Ramis and Gilda Radner to name a few. Younger brother, Bill Murray, was also a colleague on the show.

During the 1979-80 season, he featured in NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’. He retained the spot in the 1980-81 season as well, also writing for Jean Doumanian in the meantime. In the process, he became one of the few artists to have worked with all the three producers of SNL.

In 1980, Brian collaborated with a host of other artists in the comedy movie, ‘Caddyshack’. The film had Chevy Chase, Micheal O’Keefe, Ted Knight, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray in lead roles. It was directed by Harold Ramis, whom Murray knew from his time in radio. Apart from being the co-writer of the movie, Brian also appears in a supporting role in it, sharing screen-space with Bill. The movie was the first of several similarly themed movies that released all throughout the 80s.

Murray is a multiple Emmy Awards nominee. He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy program consecutively for three years from 1978 to 1980.