Filmmaker Harold Ramis , who exerted a strong creative hand in such popular comedies as National Lampoon's Animal House , the Ghostbusters series and Groundhog Day , has died in Chicago of a rare autoimmune disease, People has confirmed. His wife, Erica Mann Ramis, told the Chicago Tribune he was surrounded by family when he died at 12:53 a.m. Monday. An actor, writer, director, producer and a gentleman - whose dry wit, long face and eyeglasses often had him compared to the legendary 1930s playwright George S. Kaufman , a compliment Ramis enjoyed - Ramis was born in Chicago and grew up idolizing the Marx Brothers

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