The Forged of Ghostbusters: The place Are They Now?

Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Raymond Stantz

Dan Aykroyd co-wrote Ghostbusters with costar Harold Ramis, bringing the comedy abilities he’d honed on Saturday Evening Dwell just a few years previous to the web page. PEOPLE known as the actor “a hoot” within the movie, crediting his banter with costar Invoice Murray for creating “the proper summer season tonic for elevating spirits.”

Aykroyd was recent off a handful of different favourite movies — Blues Brothers, Buying and selling Locations and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom amongst them — and has since had a continuous performing profession that features My Lady, Driving Miss Daisy (for which he earned an Oscar nod), Tommy Boy, 50 First Dates, Crossroads, Pearl Harbor and collection together with Soul Man and Workin’ Mothers. Like a lot of his Ghostbusters costars, he appeared in lots of the movie’s sequels and spinoffs, most just lately, 2024’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

The 71-year-old separated from Donna Dixon, his spouse of 39 years, in 2022; collectively they’ve three daughters.

Billy Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman

On the time of the movie’s launch, PEOPLE stated Invoice Murray‘s “supply is a fail-safe mechanism for laughter,” serving to to make the film “one thing like Abbott & Costello Meet the Exorcist.”

Like Aykroyd, he rose to fame on Saturday Evening Dwell, and adopted Ghostbusters with different ’80s and ’90s favorites together with Little Store of Horrors, What About Bob? and Groundhog Day. He earned an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe Award for his work in Misplaced in Translation, earlier than becoming a member of the Wes Anderson world for movies together with Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Restricted and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. He most just lately gained an Emmy Award for 2015’s Olive Kitteridge.

Murray was the topic of allegations of inappropriate conduct on set in 2022, which prompted different stars to talk out about detrimental experiences they’d with the star. He reportedly paid a $100,000 settlement to his colleague on the 2022 movie, and within the years since, has continued working in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

Twice married, the 73-year-old has six sons.

Harold Ramis as Dr. Egon Spengler

The movie’s co-writer Harold Ramis recalled the troublesome process of constructing the film when chatting with PEOPLE in 1984.

“Danny, Invoice and I needed to act towards characters who weren’t there. ‘Look scared’ was the primary path. Then, ‘Look extra scared,’ ” he defined.

Ramis — who got here up via Canada’s Second Metropolis Tv — went on to characteristic in Groundhog Day, Excessive Constancy, As Good as It Will get and Knocked Up, however was simply as recognized for his writing, penning Groundhog Day along with Analyze This and Analyze That.

Ramis died in 2014 on the age of 69. He was survived by his spouse of 25 years, Erica Mann Ramis, their two sons and his daughter from a earlier marriage.

Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddmore

In a 2023 interview on SiriusXM, Ernie Hudson stated that filming Ghostbusters was “most likely essentially the most troublesome film I ever did simply from the psychological perspective.”

“I used to be the man who was introduced in, and so discovering my place in the course of that — and so they have been all welcoming and inclusive,” the actor stated of the forged, per The Hollywood Reporter. “The studio wasn’t, and the studio continued to not be. So it made it very, very troublesome as a result of I used to be part of it, however then I very selectively was pushed apart.”

“Now,” he stated, “I do know the followers see it in another way, and I’m so grateful for the followers as a result of the followers mainly recognized with Winston.”

Previous to Ghostbusters, Hudson had been busy working in tv, and hasn’t slowed down since, showing in the whole lot from The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Oz and The Crow to The Basketball Diaries, Miss Congeniality and Grace and Frankie.

Most just lately Hudson, 78, earned discover for his match physique whereas selling Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. He has been married to spouse Linda Kingsberg for almost 40 years and has youngsters from his earlier marriage.

Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett

Sigourney Weaver had Annie Corridor and the primary Alien film to her identify earlier than becoming a member of Ghostbusters because the gang’s haunted (and exquisite) consumer.

She instantly went on to the remainder of the four-part Alien collection, incomes her first Oscar nod for 1986’s Aliens (she adopted that up with two extra for Working Lady and Gorillas within the Mist) earlier than leaping into movies together with Galaxy Quest, Heartbreakers, Abduction, A Monster Calls and the Avatar franchise. She additionally has a Grammy (finest spoken phrase album for her narration of Jon Stewart’s Earth (The Guide)), and 4 Emmy nominations, the newest for her narration on Secrets and techniques of the Whales.

Weaver, 74, has been married to theater director Jim Simpson since October 1984; collectively they’ve one daughter.

Rick Moranis as Louis Tully

Additionally an alumnus of the Canadian sketch collection Second Metropolis Tv, Rick Moranis was one other ’80s and ’90s favourite, with standout roles in Little Store of Horrors, Spaceballs, Honey, I Shrunk the Children, Parenthood and My Blue Heaven on his résumé previous to his half as Dana’s nerdy neighbor in Ghostbusters.

In a while within the ’90s, Moranis took a step again from performing following the demise of his spouse, costume designer Ann Belsky.

“I took a break, which changed into an extended break,” he informed The Hollywood Reporter in 2015. “Stuff occurs to folks on a regular basis, and other people make changes, change careers, transfer to a different metropolis. Actually, that is all I did.”

Moranis, now 71, has made just a few cameos lately, and was slated to star in a 2020s Honey I Shrunk the Children reboot that was finally scrapped.

The actor has two grown youngsters with Belsky.

Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz

Annie Potts stored the Ghostbusters going because the group’s secretary, returning alongside a lot of the forged for 1989’s Ghostbusters II.

She adopted up with a string of hits together with Fairly in Pink, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Love & Struggle, Any Day Now and the beloved collection Designing Girls, along with voicing Bo Peep within the Toy Story franchise.

Extra just lately, Potts has stayed busy with roles on Regulation & Order: SVU, GCB, Chicago Med and The Fosters and in movies like 2016’s all-female Ghostbusters (Weaver cameoed, too) and 2024’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. She additionally has made Broadway appearances in God of Carnage in 2009 and Pippin in 2014. Her newest collection, Younger Sheldon, simply ended.

Potts, 71, married husband James Hayman in 1990; collectively they’ve two youngsters. She additionally has one little one from her first marriage.

William Atherton as Walter Peck

As the only real non-ghost unhealthy man of the movie, William Atherton tried to take the Ghostbusters down, to no avail.

Previous to the movie, he’d starred each on Broadway and in The Sugarland Categorical and The Day of the Locust. He is gone on to return for lots of the subsequent Ghostbusters movies and video video games, along with Die Onerous, The Pelican Temporary, Bio-Dome, The Final Samurai and Determined Housewives, amongst numerous different TV roles.

Atherton, 76, is married to Bobbi Goldin.