Harold Ramis RIP: His 10 Most Memorable Films

3. Caddyshack (1980)

For those who haven't seen Caddyshack, take Happy Gilmore and try to imagine it being really, really funny. Ramis' directorial debut concerns an exclusive golf club packed to the brim with an eccentric and star-studded group of golfers and caddies (including Rodney Dangerfield and Chevy Chase) and teamed Ramis up with Bill Murray at the start of a lucrative association, which unfortunately came with an unhappy ending when the pair fell out over Murray's conduct while filming Groundhog Day (according to Ramis in 2004.) Murray appears as an assistant greenkeeper locked in a game of hide-and-seek with a stuffed gopher terrorising the holes. The film is ingeniously funny with many intertwining sub-plots that give all members of the cast room to stretch their comedy legs. It's no surprise Ramis had such a successful career following Caddyshack - and it's no surprise it still causes fits of laughter thirty years later.
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I love all things imaginative, from the page to the screen, and nurture a soft spot for Donald Sutherland and Daniel Bryan.