The 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids' actor largely leads a private life and has not appeared in a live-action movie since the 1990s Santi Ramales / BACKGRID Rick Moranis in New York City on Friday, Nov. 15.

Moranis got his start on the influential Canadian sketch comedy series SCTV in 1980, before landing his breakout movie performance as the demonically possessed Louis Tully in 1984’s Ghostbusters.

Rick Moranis is a comedy legend. He appeared in many of the biggest comedies of the 1980s and '90s, including hits like the Mel Brooks film "Spaceballs" in which he played the villainous Dark Helmet.

Rick Moranis was a beloved film and TV actor back in the 1980s and 1990s thanks to projects like Ghostbusters (1984), Little Shop of Horrors (1986) and Spaceballs (1987). However, in recent years the ...