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The Grey Lady[edit] Dr. Eleanor Twitty a.k.a. The Grey Lady or "The Library Ghost", portrayed by Ruth Hale Oliver, is a lady in grey and the first ghost encountered by the original three Ghostbusters (Ray, Egon, and Peter) while they are investigating paranormal activity at the New York Public Library.
Mar 23, 2024 · The first Ghostbusters movie was released in 1984, starring the original team of Ghostbusters. Since then, the series and the team have expanded with multiple sequel films and a reboot. Each movie expanded the roster of people who officially joined the Ghostbusters team, donning a uniform and picking up a proton pack to hunt down some ghosts ...
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- Bill Murray (Dr. Peter Venckman) Bill Murray began his storied career with Second City and the National Lampoon Radio Hour before making himself known to national audiences on Saturday Night Live.
- Sigourney Weaver (Dana Barrett) Sigourney Weaver got her start onstage at Yale before making her screen debut through a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in Annie Hall (1977).
- Dan Aykroyd (Dr. Raymond Stantz) Dan Aykroyd made a name for himself on Saturday Night Live as one of the original writers and performers. Prior to crafting the idea for Ghostbusters, he had worked with Steven Spielberg in 1941 (1979) and starred alongside longtime collaborator John Belushi in The Blues Brothers (1980), which he also wrote based on the pair's iconic SNL characters.
- Harold Ramis (Dr. Egon Spengler) Like his costar Rick Moranis, the late Harold Ramis got his start in the early days of Second City Television (SCTV). For a time, Ramis was replaced in the cast by John Belushi before he found a niche as Belushi's sidekick.
- Producer - Ivan Reitman
- Writer/Director - Jason Reitman
- Dr. Peter Venkman
- Dr. Ray Stanz
- Dr. Egon Spengler
- Dr. Winston Zeddemore
- Janine Melnitz
- Dana Barrett
- Ivo Shandor
- Gozer The Gozerian
Original Ghostbusters director and producer Ivan Reitman has been with the series since its beginning. After directing the first two features (with small voice cameo roles), he directed comedy films such as Twins, Kindergarten Cop, Evolution, and My Super Ex-Girlfriend. His final directorial feature, Draft Day, was released in 2014. Reitman didn’t ...
The son of original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman followed in his father’s footsteps as a filmmaker. The director of cult classics Thank You For Smoking, Juno, and Up In The Air, and even two episodes of The Office, Reitman grew up on set and actually has a small cameo as the “Brownstone Boy #2” in Ghostbusters II, which earns h...
The original Ghostbuster himself, Dr. Peter Venkman returns in Ghostbusters: Afterlife to help the Spengler's defeat Gozer. The last time we saw Venkman was 30 years prior in Ghostbusters II when he and his fellow Ghostbusters had defeated the demonic Vigo the Carpathian (Wilhelm von Homburg) after he attempted to possess Dana Barrett’s (Sigourney ...
When last we officially saw Dr. Ray Stanz, he was busting ghosts in Ghostbusters II, but after his brief cameo in the 1995 film Casper, it seems like he’s given up on the ghost-busting dream. In Afterlife, Phoebe uses her one phone call in jail to call the Ghostbusters hotline, which re-directs to Ray’s Occult Books (which Ray ran back in Ghostbust...
Possibly the most important character in the film, Dr. Egon Spengler is the catalyst for the events of Ghostbusters: Afterlife. After we witness his sacrificial death in the film’s opening moments, we learn that 30 years ago he stole the Ghostbusters’ equipment, left his family, and moved to Summerville, OK to try to stop a coming apocalypse. After...
Iconic fourth Ghostbuster Dr. Winston Zeddemore (yes, he’s a doctor now) also returns in Ghostbusters: Afterlifeand, out of all the returning cast, his life has changed the most drastically. Crediting his work with the Ghostbusters as the push he needed, Winston earned his doctorate, started a global enterprise, and is now a family man. He also ret...
After 30 years since being the Ghostbusters’ secretary (and a Ghostbuster herself if The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbustersare to be believed), Janine Melnitz (Annie Potts) returns to inform the bereaved Spengler family about the debt they’d inherit from Egon upon his death. While she doesn’t appear for long in Afterlife, it’s clear from he...
Last we saw Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters II, it was implied that Dana and Peter Venkman had rekindled their relationship after the Ghostbusters saved her son, and Ghostbusters: Afterlifeconfirmed that suspicion. While Sigourney Weaver only appears briefly as Dana in a mid-credits scene, her moments with Venkman, using his own ESP shock machine agai...
Mentioned in the original Ghostbusters as the Gozer worshipper who built Dana Barrett’s original New York apartment building, 1920s Gozer cult leader Ivo Shandor (J.K. Simmons) makes his first live-action appearance here. It’s revealed that in Summerville’s mountainous Gozer temple Shandor had his deceased body encased (much like the dead bishops a...
Speaking of the original film, original Ghostbusters protagonist Gozer the Gozerian (played to perfection by an uncredited Olivia Wilde) returns as the eventual “big bad” behind the Summerville quakes. Gozer is scarier here than she was in her initial appearance, creating a cyclone of spirit energy and even using the Ghostbusters’ crossed-streams a...
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Cast 73. Bill Murray. Peter Venkman. Dan Aykroyd. Ray Stantz. Sigourney Weaver. Dana Barrett. Harold Ramis. Egon Spengler.
Apr 18, 2023 · Cast in the movie as the Ghostbusters' very first customer, as well as Peter's love interest, Sigourney Weaver plays Dana Barrett, a woman whose apartment is the subject of a mysterious haunting. Sigourney Weaver's horror movies put her on the map, and her turn as Ellen Ripley in 1979's Alien made her the ultimate interstellar scream queen.
Jun 8, 2021 · Fans of the original Ghostbusters squad are in for a real treat, as the original cast is teaming up for 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The film is being directed by Jason Reitman, who is the...
