At least we can say Bill Murray has good company with another Academy Award nominee in the film. Thanks to stupid self-righteous Sean Penn beating out Bill Murray’s brilliant performance in 2003’s Lost in Translation, we can’t say Ghostbusters II included an Oscar-winning actor. This thing’s got more guyeliner than Adam Lambert. VIGO HAD THE SCARIEST ACTION FIGURE EVER. Very low brow, Slimer would never behave in that manner.ĭespite his most prominent role in Ghostbusters II, Homburg also had a minor acting career, appearing in hit movies starring Carl Winslow, such as Die Hard, and non-hit movies without Carl Winslow, such as Diggstown, and John Carpenter’s 1994 horror, In the Mouth of Madness. He sat silent and smirking for the entire 10 minutes as the interviewer made snarky comments about Homburg’s boxing loss and his flashy lifestyle. The day after a lost boxing match against Oscar Bonavena in 1969, Homburg appeared for a tv interview on a German talk show. JUST YOUR AVERAGE AWKARD GERMAN TV INTERVIEW In 2002, a documentary about Homburg’s life, entitled The Boxing Prince, was released. But to be fair, half of those victories came against Rick Moranis. He ended his career with a record of 29 wins, 11 losses, and 6 draws. He was once called “The Boxing Beatle” due to his longer hair, and “The German Answer to Muhammad Ali”. If he had kept at wrestling, one couldn’t help but think he could’ve been the 60’s version of Doink the Clown.įrom 1962 to 1970, Homburg was a successful boxer, nicknamed “Prinz” in order to create a sense of royalty surrounding him. A few years later, he’d switch over to a different kind of ring, as boxing came calling his name. Due to people incorrectly pronouncing his last name, “Groupie”, he changed his name to the much more roll-off-the-tongue, Wilhelm von Homburg. In the 1950’s, he wrestled in the United States with his father under his birth name, Norbert Grupe. During the filming of Ghostbusters II, he lost a bet and had to clean up after those sloppy Scoleri Brothers. I guess they were low on janitors on set. Much like I was, you’d be mighty surprised to see the surprising tales of the life of the man who played the painting who tried to steal the baby to come back and kill the men who captured ghosts for a high fee. Wilhelm von Homburg? True, not the most household of names, especially here in the States. Of course, when Ivan Reitman yelled “Cut!”, the evil Vigo took off the armor plated threads and was nothing more than regular 20th Century human and German-born actor, Wilhelm von Homburg. Vigo the Carpathian, main antagonist in 1989’s summer comedy spooktacular, Ghostbusters II, was a 17th Century Moldavian genocidal tyrant, so horridly sadist and blood-curdlingly malevolent, he earned a shopping list of jolly nicknames, including but not limited to: “Vigo the Cruel”, “Vigo the Torturer”, Vigo the Despised" and “Vigo the Butch Unholy”. “Vigy, Vigy, Vigy, you have been a bad monkey!”Īmen brotha Billy… in fact you don’t even know the half of it.
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