![]() Despite being a stereotypical timid professor-like figure, Egon is prone to violent reactions when pushed too far temperamentally, as demonstrated by his attempt to assault Walter Peck.Īfter Egon dies, the haunting in his farmhouse reveals that, like Ray, he was a skilled mechanic, able to repair the Ecto-1's engine with his grandson Trevor as a poltergeist.Īppearances Film Ghostbusters (1984) Įgon was very interested in paranormal phenomena, even while working with Ray Stantz and Peter Venkman at Columbia University. In the second film it is revealed that he and Ray like takeout foods like pizza, Asian, Greek, and Mexican cuisine in the first film, there is also a scene where Egon dines on Chinese takeout with Peter and Ray, during which he eats egg rolls while he finishes building the proton packs. As implied in the first movie, Egon apparently is a junk food junkie, due to his affection for sweets and snack crackers. Of his hobbies, Egon states that he collects " spores, molds, and fungus", and claims that, as a child, the only toy he ever had was "part of a Slinky", which he straightened out. ![]() Character Įgon Spengler is a tall, lanky, laconic, bespectacled, awkward member of the team responsible for the main theoretical framework for their paranormal/ quantum studies, having earned over a dozen advanced degrees including parapsychology and nuclear engineering from New York University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively, as demonstrated by his stiff interactions with the Ghostbusters' secretary Janine Melnitz, and his reliance on Peter Venkman as a spokesperson for the group.Įgon is the most serious and rigid member of the team. He got the part anyway and said in an interview that he did two different takes: one 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. Maurice LaMarche stated that when he auditioned for the part of Egon 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' example. ![]() Ĭhristopher 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. The character's name Egon Spengler is an amalgamation of the name Egon Donsbach, who was a Hungarian refugee classmate of Ramis' at Senn High School, and the name of German polymath Oswald Spengler. He is a member of the Ghostbusters and one of the three doctors of parapsychology, along with Dr. Egon 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 appears in the films Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife, in the animated television series The Real Ghostbusters and Extreme Ghostbusters, and in the video games Ghostbusters: The Video Game and Ghostbusters Beeline. Egon Spengler, PhD is a fictional character from the Ghostbusters franchise. ![]()
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