Bill Murray’s career is one of American comedy’s strangest and most enduring evolutions: from “Saturday Night Live” breakout to 1980s box-office king, then reinvention as an offbeat dramatic actor and indie icon. This lecture traces his rise through classics like “Caddyshack” (1980), “Stripes” (1981), “Ghostbusters” (1984), and “Groundhog Day” (1993), and explores how filmmakers—from Harold Ramis to Wes Anderson and Sofia Coppola—reshaped his screen persona into something simultaneously cynical, vulnerable, and oddly soulful. We will also look at his public myth, collaborations, and late-career renaissance.