Egon Spengler
| Egon Spengler | |
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| Ghostbusters character | |
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| First appearance | Ghostbusters (1984) |
| Last appearance |
Full Appearance: Ghostbusters: The Video Game (2009) Bronze Head Bust: Ghostbusters (2016) |
| Created by | Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis |
| Portrayed by | Harold Ramis |
| Voiced by |
Harold Ramis (Ghostbusters: The Video Game) Maurice LaMarche (The Real Ghostbusters) (Extreme Ghostbusters; guest star) |
| Information | |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Scientist Ghostbuster |
| Title | PhD |
| Nationality | American |
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.
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