‘Ghostbusters’ Star and Writer Harold Ramis Dead at 69

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ABC NEWS – “Ghostbusters” star Harold Ramis has died at 69 years old, United Talent Agency confirmed to ABC News today.


Ramis was known as much for his off-screen work — writing the “Ghostbusters” films, along with “Groundhog Day” and “Analyze This” — as he was for playing Dr. Egon Spengler in front of the camera.


Ramis was surrounded by family in his Chicago home, where he’s lived since 1996, when he died early this morning from complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, his wife Erica Mann Ramis told the Chicago Tribune.


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