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  • Published: 1 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9781594748011
  • Imprint: Quirk Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $45.00

The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray

A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor



It's big! It's bad! It's full-color! It's a packed-to-the-gills celebration of Quirk's Favorite Actor of All Time: William James "Bill" Murray.

The New York Times Best Seller.

Part biography, part critical appreciation, part love letter—and all fun—this enormous full-color volume, packed with color film stills and behind-the-scenes photography, chronicles every Murray performance in loving detail, recounting all the milestones, legendary “Murray stories,” and controversies in the life of this enigmatic performer.

He’s played a deranged groundskeeper, a bellowing lounge singer, a paranormal exterminator, and a grouchy weatherman. He is William James “Bill” Murray, America’s greatest national treasure. From his childhood lugging golf bags at a country club to his first taste of success on Saturday Night Live, from his starring roles in Hollywood blockbusters to his reinvention as a hipster icon for the twenty-first century, The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray chronicles every aspect of his extraordinary life and career.

He’s the sort of actor who can do Hamlet and Charlie’s Angels in the same year. He shuns managers and agents, and he once agreed to voice the lead in Garfield because he mistakenly believed it was a Coen Brothers film. He’s famous for crashing house parties all over New York City—and if he keeps photobombing random strangers, he might just break the Internet.

  • Published: 1 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9781594748011
  • Imprint: Quirk Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $45.00

About the author

Robert Schnakenberg

ROBERT SCHNAKENBERG loves science fiction so much, he wrote an entire book about William Shatner: The Encyclopedia Shatnerica. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.