Egon Spengler, PhD is a fictional character from the Ghostbusters
franchise. He appears in the films Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II,
in the animated television series The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme
Ghostbusters, in the video games Ghostbusters: The Video Game and
Beeline's Ghostbusters. Spengler was portrayed by Harold Ramis in the
films and voiced by him in Ghostbusters: The Video Game and Lego
Dimensions, and voiced by Maurice LaMarche in the cartoon series. He
is a member of the Ghostbusters and one of the three doctors of
parapsychology, along with Dr. Peter Venkman and Dr. Ray Stantz.The
character of Egon Spengler was named after Oswald Spengler and a
classmate of Ramis at Senn High School, Egon Donsbach, a Hungarian
refugee.Christopher Walken, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd and Jeff
Goldblum were all considered for the role of Egon Spengler, before
Ramis, who had gotten close to the character while writing him, felt
compelled to play it himself.LaMarche stated that when he auditioned
for the part of Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters, he was asked not to
do an impression of Ramis, which he ignored because impressions were
one of his strengths as a performer, and there was no other way he
could imagine properly portraying the character other than to follow
Ramis's example. He got the part anyway and said in an interview that
he did two different takes: in which he impersonated Ramis, the other
in which he tried a more "Woody Allen"-like approach that did not suit
the character's physicality, he admitted.
franchise. He appears in the films Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II,
in the animated television series The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme
Ghostbusters, in the video games Ghostbusters: The Video Game and
Beeline's Ghostbusters. Spengler was portrayed by Harold Ramis in the
films and voiced by him in Ghostbusters: The Video Game and Lego
Dimensions, and voiced by Maurice LaMarche in the cartoon series. He
is a member of the Ghostbusters and one of the three doctors of
parapsychology, along with Dr. Peter Venkman and Dr. Ray Stantz.The
character of Egon Spengler was named after Oswald Spengler and a
classmate of Ramis at Senn High School, Egon Donsbach, a Hungarian
refugee.Christopher Walken, John Lithgow, Christopher Lloyd and Jeff
Goldblum were all considered for the role of Egon Spengler, before
Ramis, who had gotten close to the character while writing him, felt
compelled to play it himself.LaMarche stated that when he auditioned
for the part of Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters, he was asked not to
do an impression of Ramis, which he ignored because impressions were
one of his strengths as a performer, and there was no other way he
could imagine properly portraying the character other than to follow
Ramis's example. He got the part anyway and said in an interview that
he did two different takes: in which he impersonated Ramis, the other
in which he tried a more "Woody Allen"-like approach that did not suit
the character's physicality, he admitted.
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