![]() ![]() Spackler didn’t have time to sweat this pairing there was golfing to be done. The flowing robes, the grace, bald … striking.”) Spackler tells the dumbfounded caddy that the golfer he worked for on that Himalayan course was none other than the Dalai Lama. The story only gets more bizarre from there. “I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas.” “I jump ship in Hong Kong and I make my way over to Tibet,” Spackler says. In Caddyshack, Murray’s Spackler, with pitchfork in hand, corners a young caddy to tell him a story about a job he worked on the other side of the world. Bill Murray improvised his Dalai Lama speech in ‘Caddyshack’ ![]() The story Spackler (Murray) tells about caddying for the Dalai Lama (“Gunga galunga” and so forth) certainly falls under the “weird” banner. “He would just turn up and do weird stuff.” “He’d done so much improv at the Lampoon, he could just go,” Ramis said. Considering Murray came up with most of those lines on the spot, that stands as quite a feat.Īs Ramis pointed out in Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella (2018), Murray’s previous work had prepared him well. More than four decades later, you still hear people quoting lines Murray delivered as out-there groundskeeper Carl Spackler. ![]() But Ramis and Murray made every day count. Since he only had a small part in the film, producers had booked Murray for one week. When Bill Murray arrived on the set of Caddyshack (1980), writer-director Harold Ramis knew he wouldn’t have the actor for long. ![]()
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