- William Atherton, Ghostbusters, 1983. The paranormal was, said Dan Aykord, his family’s business. That and having stayed in a house haunted by Mama Cass Elliott inspired his dark, futuristic update of such 40s’ comedies as Bob Hope’s Ghost Breakers and the Bowery Boys as Ghost Chasers – penned for John Belushi, Eddie Murphy and himself. (They became Billy Murray, Akyroyd and Harold Ramis). Ensign read for rthe villain, Walter Peck, and was lucky to lose out to Atherton – or Atherton was unluckly to win! Once the comedy opened, people wanted to fight him in bars – and kids yelled after ghim, as pewr the movide, “Hey, dickless!” No wonder, Ensign was quite happy with his compensatory role of Sedgewick Hotel manager.
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