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There were actors in the 1980s who, seemingly so at home in front of the camera, always appeared bound to outlast the decade.

But whilst the likes of Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts and Bill Murray have all stood the test of time, there are many other stars from the era who, for one reason or another, simply faded out. The kind of former superstars who, if you were to see them out and about on the street today, you might even just pass them by.

There are few better examples of this kind of 80s superstar than one Rick Moranis, who ended that decade as one of the highest-grossing actors of the 1980s, but who has gone on to live in relative anonymity today.

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According to The Richest, Rich Moranis has a net worth of around $10 million dollars. His fortune has come from a successful career as an actor and comedian. He has also successfully released many comedy albums.

Where was Rick Moranis Born?

Born in Toronto, Canada in 1953 to a Jewish family who originated in Hungary, Frederick Allan Moranis had a largely uneventful Ontario upbringing.

Beginning his career in entertainment in the mid-1970s as a Toronto radio DJ, Moranis went by the name Rick Allan across three different wireless slots.

It was at the beginning of the following decade, however, after he had starred in a number of TV comedy pilots and radio comedy specials, that Moranis got his real break in showbusiness.

Invited to join the cast of SCTV (Second City Television) – essentially Canada’s answer to Saturday Night Live – Moranis shot to international fame in 1980, alongside fellow future comedy legends Steve Martin, John Candy and Martin Short.

Moranis became known for a number of sketches, including The Great White North, in which Moranis co-starred with Dave Thomas as one of a pair of stereotypical, beer-drinking Canadians.

The sketch led to Moranis making his theatrical debut in 1983 with cult comedy classic Strange Brew, which found Moranis and Thomas reprising their Great White North roles for the big screen.

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Having dipped his toe into cinema, a flood of roles came for Moranis in the 80s – as Seymour Krelborn in Little Shop of Horrors, as Morty King in Brewster’s Millions, as Nathan Huffner in Parenthood and as Barry Nye in Club Paradise.

Best of all was the sci-fi comedy Ghostbusters (and to a lesser extent its sequel, 1989’s Ghostbusters II), in which Moranis was cast as Louis Tully, putting rocket boosters under the funnyman’s career.

Released in 1984, Ghostbusters went on to be the 6th highest-grossing movie of the decade, making $13.6 million on its opening weekend and $23 million in its first week, setting studio records at the time.

A veteran of sketch comedy, Moranis was well known at the time for his improvisational skills; as such, the Ghostbusters party scene, where Louis first becomes possessed by Vinz Clortho the Keymaster, was almost entirely improvised.

With Moranis on a roll, in 1987 there was the sci-fi spoof Spaceballs, which was co-written, produced and directed by Hollywood comedy legend Mel Brooks.

The film saw Moranis star alongside Brooks himself, as well as Bill Pullman and John Candy, and gave Moranis one of his best-loved roles as Lord Dark Helmet.

Still, it was one film in particular that cemented Moranis as one of the biggest and most unlikely film stars of the 1980s.

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, released in 1989, opened to favourable reviews and, more importantly for its diminutive (he’s 5 foot 5 inches tall, fact fans) star, an ecstatic reception from audiences.

Starring Moranis in the lead role of Wayne Szalinski, an inventor who inadvertently miniaturises his children using an experimental ray gun, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids made $222 million on a budget of $18 million.

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With Moranis at what would prove to be the peak of his career following Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, more lucrative roles followed.

There were sequels: Honey, I Blew Up the Kid in 1992 and Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves in 1997, as well as the Disney theme park spin-off Honey, I Shrunk the Audience!

Then, Moranis’ last major role came in 1994: he played Barney Rubble, alongside John Goodman’s Fred Flintstone, in the live-action feature film adaptation of The Flintstones.

The film wasn’t well-received by critics, but still proved hugely successful at the box office, bringing in $341 million.

The films Little Giants and Big Bully would follow in 1994 and 1996, with the latter constituting the last time Moranis would appear on the big screen, before he left Hollywood behind for good.

In the early 1990s, a family tragedy caused Moranis to pull away from the bright lights of Hollywood to concentrate on his family.

Married since 1986 to costume designer Ann Belsky, with whom Moranis had two children (Rachel and Mitchell), Moranis was left suddenly widowed when his wife passed in 1991.

Sadly, Belsky died of cancer that year, and though Moranis attempted for a time to continue making movies, ultimately he decided to leave the public eye to focus on being a full-time dad. The actor all but vanished in the mid-90s.

In 2005, Moranis explained why he suddenly disappeared from the spotlight:

“I’m a single parent and I just found that it was too difficult to manage to raise my kids and to do the travelling involved in making movies. So I took a little bit of a break. And the little bit of a break turned into a longer break, and then I found that I really didn’t miss it.”

It wasn’t just that Moranis wanted to focus on fatherhood, however. In 2004, the former movie star revealed that he didn’t really feel comfortable being a movie star at all, with disillusionment creeping in as he went on to make bigger budget films:

“On the last couple of movies I made I really missed being able to create my own material. In the early movies I did, I was brought in to basically rewrite my stuff, whether it was Ghostbusters or Spaceballs.

“By the time I got to the point where I was starring in movies, and I had executives telling me what lines to say, that wasn’t for me. I’m really not an actor.

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“I’m a guy who comes out of comedy, and my impetus was always to rewrite the line to make it funnier, not to try to make somebody’s precious words work.”

Since Big Bully in 1996, Moranis hasn’t been seen on the big screen, though he did voice a character in 2003’s Brother Bear and has appeared in or provided voice work for three direct-to-video movies: Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys and Brother Bear 2.

The cameo Moranis was offered in the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot couldn’t tempt the comedian back to movies, with Moranis telling The Hollywood Reporter in 2015: “I wish them well. I hope it’s terrific. But it just makes no sense to me. Why would I do just one day of shooting on something I did 30 years ago”.

Now aged 66, recently Moranis appeared – or was, more accurately, heard – in 1980s sitcom The Goldbergs, voicing Lord Dark Helmet. He will next be seen in Martin Scorsese’s Netflix documentary about Second City Television, An Afternoon with SCTV, which will mark the first time the comedian has appeared on-screen since 2007.

Moranis has lately described himself as “picky”, and he can afford to be: though Moranis has barely worked in the last 24 years, his net worth remains an estimated $10 million. Still, all that’s about to change.

Though rumours of his involvement in this year’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife turned out to be just that, Moranis recently officially joined the cast of Shrunk, aka Disney’s upcoming Honey, I Shrunk the Kids reboot.

According to Deadline, Moranis will reprise his role as hapless inventor Wayne Szalinski, with Josh Gad playing Nick Szalinski, who like his father before him accidentally manages to shrink his own children.

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Due for release in 2021, Shrunk will begin filming in Spring 2020 with Honey, I Shrunk the Kids director Joe Johnston back at the helm. After almost a quarter-century, we’re more than ready to say: welcome back, Rick Moranis.