Brian Doyle Murray

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Brian Doyle-Murray (born October 31, 1945) is an American comedian, screenwriter, actor and voice artist. An alumnus of Saturday Night Live (Doyle-Murray was a feature player during the show's fifth season [1979-1980 season], as one of many replacements for Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, who left after the 1978-1979 season, a writer for the Jean Doumanian season (1980-1981 season), and was a feature player-cum-Weekend Update anchor during Dick Ebersol's first season [season seven; the 1981-1982 season], making Doyle-Murray one of a handful of SNL cast members who worked with all three executive producers -- Lorne Michaels, Jean Doumanian, and Dick Ebersol), he is the older brother of actor/comedian Bill Murray and has acted with him in several films, including Caddyshack, Scrooged, Ghostbusters II and Groundhog Day.

Murray is known for his gravelly voice and has voiced The Flying Dutchman on Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants, a small role as the Grandfather on Lloyd in Space, Coach Gills on Cartoon Network's My Gym Partners a Monkey, Captain K'nuckles on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack and as Maggie's dad on Disney Channel's The Buzz On Maggie. He has also appeared as "Salty" in the Family Guy episode "A Fish out of Water". He is the voice of Jack the barber on King of the Hill. He also voiced the mayor in Ghostbusters the Video Game. As of 2010, he is also the voice of the Grandfather in Comedy Central's The Goode Family.