Rick Moranis

Frederick Allan Moranis born April 18 1953 is a Canadian actor comedian musician producer songwriter and writer Moranis appeared in the sketch comedy series Second City Television SCTV in the 1980s and starred afterwards in several Hollywood films including Strange Brew 1983 Streets of Fire 1984 Ghostbusters 1984 and its sequel Ghostbusters II 1989 Little Shop of Horrors 1986 Spaceballs 1987 Honey I Shrunk the Kids 1989 and its 1992 and 1997 sequels Parenthood 1989 My Blue Heaven 1990 and The Flintstones1994 In 1997 Moranis began a long break from acting to dedicate his time to his two children as a widower He has not appeared in a liveaction film for over 28 years However he provided voiceover work for a few animated films including Disneys Brother Bear 2003 He also released comedy albums and made appearances at fan conventions In 2020 after a hiatus of nearly 23 years from liveaction films Moranis signed to reprise his role of Wayne Szalinski in a new sequel to Honey I Shrunk the Kids called Shrunk before the project was put on hold