Ivan Reitman directed and produced Ghostbusters, a 1984 American supernatural comedy film written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis feature as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, three eccentric parapsychologists who launch a ghost-catching business in New York City, respectively. Annie Potts, William Atherton, and Ernie Hudson have supporting roles in the picture, which also stars Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis.
In the Ghostbusters franchise, Peter Venkman, PhD is a fictional character. In addition to the animated television series The Real Ghostbusters, he appears in the films Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Bill Murray played him in all three live-action films, and Lorenzo Music and subsequently Dave Coulier voiced him in the animated series. He is a parapsychologist and the Ghostbusters' leader.
Peter Venkman was named one of Empire's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time in 2008, with Empire's Nick de Semlyen describing him as "the ultimate New York hero: cynical, sarcastic, secretly sweet-natured," "a man possessed by manic spontaneity, with a habit of twirling in circles around a public concourse or declaring undying love for a woman he's just met," and the "most
