What happened to the cast of “Caddyshack”? See what the stars of the golf comedy are doing now
What happened to the cast of “Caddyshack”? See what the stars of the golf comedy are doing now
Randall Colburn, Ilana GordonThu, May 28, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC
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Chevy Chase as Ty Webb, Bill Murray as Carl Spackler, Rodney Dangerfield as Al Czervik, and Ted Knight as Judge Elihu Smails in 'Caddyshack'
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"Hey, everybody, we're all gonna get laid!" Thus concludes the 1980 comedy Caddyshack, a film about the members and employees of the fictional Bushwood Country Club. The golf movie follows a teenage caddie (Michael O'Keefe) who pursues a college scholarship, only to end up in the middle of a clash between one of the club’s founders (Ted Knight) and a new-money real estate developer (Rodney Dangerfield).
Caddyshack was also a Murray family affair. Brian Doyle-Murray co-wrote the script, which was inspired by his brother, Ed, who won a caddie scholarship while attending Northwestern University. Their brother, Bill, steals the film as an unstable groundskeeper who is tasked with killing an errant gopher.
Also featuring Chevy Chase as a "nouveau riche" businessman, Caddyshack is one of the 1980's most memorable comedy exports. Harold Ramis — who would go on to star in 1984's Ghostbusters and direct hits like National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) and Groundhog Day (1993) — makes his directorial debut with this “snobs vs. slobs” classic.
Read on to see where the Caddyshack cast is now.
Chevy Chase (Ty Webb)
Chevy Chase as Ty Webb in 'Caddyshack'; Chevy Chase at 'SNL50: The Anniversary Special' on Feb. 16, 2025
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Chevy Chase's career was on the rise when he starred as Bushwood co-founder Ty Webb, the dry, would-be mentor to O'Keefe's Danny.
Speaking with EW in 2004, Chase praised the performance of his Caddyshack costar Bill Murray, a surprising reversal considering the two physically fought each other backstage at Saturday Night Live two years earlier.
”What makes him a great comedian is the danger in his comedy. You’re never sure what he’ll do," Chase said of Murray. "[Now] when I think of Caddyshack, I think of Billy. Incredible performance. Ty is just me with a tux on, being arrogant the way I was.”
Chase was among the original SNL cast, but he departed mid-season 2 to focus on his movie career. His most enduring role is as hapless patriarch Clark Griswold, a character he revisited in four National Lampoon's Vacation films. (Five if you count 2015's Vacation.)
Chase found television success with the NBC sitcom Community, but clashes with the creative team and his costars caused him to leave during season 4. It's alleged in a 2018 New Yorker profile of Community star Donald Glover that Chase repeatedly made racist jokes on set and would try to "disrupt" Glover's scenes during filming.
“I am saddened to hear that Donald perceived me in that light,” Chase said in response.
Speaking about his departure, Chase told Marc Maron in 2023 that "the show wasn't funny enough for me, ultimately," adding, "I felt a little bit constrained."
In 2024, Cory Michael Smith played Chase in Saturday Night, a comedy about the making of the sketch show's premiere episode. After watching it for the first time, Chase reportedly told director Jason Reitman, "Well, you should be embarrassed".
On New Year's Day 2026, CNN Films released a documentary about Chase's life, I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not. Several of his former collaborators and coworkers chose not to participate.
Rodney Dangerfield (Al Czervik)
Rodney Dangerfield as Al Czervik in 'Caddyshack'; Rodney Dangerfield at the '50 First Dates' premiere in Westwood, Calif., 2004
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The great Rodney Dangerfield was a successful comedian throughout the 1960s and 1970s. But his profile skyrocketed thanks to his sublime turn as the loud-mouthed Al Czervik, a real estate developer who runs afoul of Ted Knight's square Elihu Smails. "Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity," he memorably cracks to the judge's wife.
Cindy Morgan, who played bombshell Lacey Underall, recalled to Sports Illustrated in 2010 that, funny as Dangerfield was, the comic was nervous about his performance. "I remember having lunch with Rodney one day and he's tugging on his collar just like he does in his act, going, 'Am I O.K.? It's my first movie.' It's amazing how someone that funny could be insecure."
Dangerfield went on to lead several comedies, including Easy Money (1983), Back to School (1986), and Ladybugs (1992), along with a deeply scary, dramatic turn in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994). He won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for his 1980 release No Respect, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2002.
Dangerfield was a mentor and advocate for younger comedians, often working with a young Jim Carrey. “He was always there for me, always supported me, even when I was experimenting and didn’t know what the hell I was doing,” Carrey said on a 2020 episode of the Howard Stern Show.
In 2004, Dangerfield died at age 82 from complications after heart valve replacement surgery.
Michael O'Keefe (Danny Noonan)
Michael O'Keefe as Danny Noonan in 'Caddyshack'; Michael O'Keefe at the 'Your Friends & Neighbors' premiere on April 8, 2025
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Michael O'Keefe plays Danny Noonan, the caddy who tries to worm his way into the country club's inner sanctum. According to O'Keefe, Danny was even more central to the story in early drafts of the script, but his role was diminished to shine a larger spotlight on the supporting ensemble.
Not that O'Keefe is complaining. In a 2024 interview with Cracked, he explained how Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, and Bill Murray's characters evolved. “Within a week, it was so clear that Rodney was going to hit home runs every time he opened his mouth, and that Ted was absolutely insane in the right way in the role, and that Chevy was going to bring a lot to the table. And then once Bill came, he started doing his thing. That’s when they realized we’ve got to abandon this ‘Danny Noonan grows up and learns his lesson’ [plot].”
O'Keefe was already an Academy Award nominee for his work in 1979's The Great Santini when he appeared in Caddyshack. The actor went on to lead films like Split Image (1982) and The Slugger's Wife (1985).
A reliable supporting player, O'Keefe continued to appear in movies (1996's Ghosts of Mississippi,2007's Michael Clayton) and TV (Roseanne, Homeland) over the last 40 years. Most recently, he appeared opposite Jon Hamm on Apple TV's Your Friends and Neighbors.
O'Keefe lives in Woodstock, N.Y., with his wife and son. He writes poetry and was ordained as a Zen priest in 1994, though he later renounced his vows. He currently studies in a sect "that combines Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism."
Ted Knight (Elihu Smails)
Ted Knight as Elihu Smails in 'Caddyshack'; Ted Knight circa the 1980s
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We're big fans of Ted Knight's boisterous, bug-eyed performance as Elihu Smails, with EW's own Dalton Ross routinelysummoningit in articles.
Knight, beloved for his turn as Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, was nearing the end of his career when he appeared in Caddyshack, which turned out to be his final film role.
He chased Caddyshack with numerous appearances on The Love Boat, as well as a starring role on the ABC sitcom Too Close For Comfort, which was renamed The Ted Knight Show after a 1986 retooling.
Knight died that same year at age 62 due to "complications from the surgical removal of a cancerous growth from his urinary tract," per the New York Times. The year before his death, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Cindy Morgan (Lacey Underall)
Cindy Morgan as Lacey Underall in 'Caddyshack'; Cindy Morgan at the 1st annual PopCon LA on July 8, 2012
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Cindy Morgan beguiled caddies (and audiences) as Caddyshack's Lacey Underall, the promiscuous niece of Judge Smails.
A former weather forecaster, Morgan found success as a model after moving to Los Angeles. Caddyshack was her film debut.
"I was nervous when I went in to read for Lacey Underall, but I told myself, I just need to focus on one thing — whoever I'm reading with, I have to make him sweat," Morgan told Sports Illustrated in 2010. "I read with [co-writer and producer] Doug Kenney, and when I saw a little trickle of sweat come down the side of his face, I knew I got the job."
Morgan followed Caddyshack with a leading role in the sci-fi favorite Tron (1982). Throughout the 1980s, she appeared on several popular series, including CHiPs, The Fall Guy, and Matlock, and enjoyed a memorable arc as Gabrielle Short on the CBS soap Falcon Crest.
Morgan mostly stepped back from acting by the end of the 1990s. But she used her Caddyshack notoriety to help organize the Caddyshack Reunion Golf Tournament, raising money for families of National Guard members and reservists called to active duty.
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In January 2024, Morgan, who was living in Lake Worth Beach, Fla., died of natural causes at age 69.
Bill Murray (Carl Spackler)
Bill Murray as Carl Spackler in 'Caddyshack'; Bill Murray at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2025
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Bill Murray was wrapping up his Emmy-winning stint on Saturday Night Live, and fresh off a leading role in the screwball camp comedy Meatballs (1979), when he stole scenes in Caddyshack as twisted groundskeeper Carl Spackler, who's tasked with disposing of a gopher that's tearing up the greens.
"There were no scripted lines for Bill in the whole movie," Ramis told Sports Illustrated in 2010. "Everything we shot with him, he would just riff. That's how he worked."
"My part just kept growing like a mushroom," Murray added. "I'd go back to New York and work on SNL, and they'd call me up and ask if I wanted to come back down and do some more."
Murray has achieved a fascinating career in the decades since Caddyshack, leading a slew of hit comedies — Ghostbusters (1984), What About Bob? (1991), Groundhog Day (1993) — before gaining traction as a dramatic actor with an affecting turn in Wes Anderson's Rushmore (1998).
For his vulnerable performance as an actor whose career is in decline in Sophia Coppola's Lost in Translation(2003), Murray was nominated for an Academy Award. He went on to appear in nine more Anderson films, and also starred in works from Jim Jarmusch (2005’s Broken Flowers, 2019’s The Dead Don't Die) and Coppola (2020’s On the Rocks).
In 2001, Murray and several of his brothers, including Caddyshack co-writer Brian Doyle-Murray, opened up Murray Bros. Caddyshack Bar & Grill in St. Augustine, Fla. They opened a second location in the Chicago suburbs in 2018.
Murray reprised his Ghostbusters role as Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024). He also made a cameo appearance in the 2016 remake of the film.
Scott Colomby (Tony D'Annunzio)
Scott Colomby as D'Annunzio in 'Caddyshack'; Sean Colomby at the Hollywood Show on Jan. 13, 2013
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Scott Colomby costarred in Caddyshack as the slick, sleeveless Tony D'Annunzio, Danny's fellow caddy (and occasional nemesis).
Colomby was already a seasoned performer before Caddyshack, having appeared on episodes of Baretta, Charlie's Angels, and One Day at a Time in the 1970s.
Following his memorable turn in Caddyshack, Colomby played Brian Schwartz in Bob Clark's hit sex comedy Porky's (1981), as well as its 1983 and 1985 sequels. He would later appear in films like Timemaster (1985) and Desperate Measures (1998), as well as episodes of The A-Team, Dragnet, and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, among many others.
Colomby is also a musician and stage actor. In the mid-1990s, he co-founded Big Elvin & the Professor's Blues Theatre in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Brian Doyle-Murray (Lou Loomis)
Brian Doyle-Murray as Lou in 'Caddyshack'; Brian Doyle-Murray at the 'Groundhog Day' Broadway premiere on Aug. 8, 2017
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Brian Doyle-Murray, the older brother of Bill, stars in Caddyshack as the droll Lou Loomis, manager of the caddies. He also co-wrote the film with Harold Ramis and Douglas Kenney, while Doyle-Murray and his brothers served as the inspiration for Danny and his large family.
"Doug and Brian Doyle-Murray had started talking about a country club comedy because Brian and his younger brother Bill had been caddies," Ramis explained to Sports Illustrated in 2010.
Doyle-Murray acted alongside Bill in movies like The Razor's Edge (1984), Scrooged (1988), and Groundhog Day (1993). You may also recognize him (and his gruff voice) from some of the last century's most enduring comedies, like National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Wayne's World (1992), and Waiting for Guffman (1996).
Doyle-Murray had a recurring role in the first two seasons of the AMC cult hit Lodge 49 and voiced the Flying Dutchman in multiple SpongeBob projects across TV and video games. In 2025, he reunited with Chevy Chase for the holiday film, The Christmas Letter.
Sarah Holcomb (Maggie O'Hooligan)
Sarah Holcomb as Maggie O'Hooligan and Michael O'Keefe as Danny Noonan in 'Caddyshack'
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Sarah Holcomb costarred in Caddyshack as Maggie O'Hooligan, Danny's Irish girlfriend who's none too pleased by his dalliance with Lacey.
Caddyshack was the final film featuring Holcomb, who had previously played a memorable role in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978).
While the exact circumstances of Holcomb's departure from Hollywood are unclear, it's been said that she reportedly withdrew from public life due to the hard-partying culture of the industry at the time.
According to Michael A. Smith, the author of Jaws 2: The Making of the Hollywood Sequel, Holcomb declined to speak with him when he attempted to interview her about almost starring in Jaws 2. He did, however, speak with her brother in 2015, who confirmed that, at the height of her acting career, Holcomb had "found herself going down a path she did not want to travel."
Writing on the Daily Jaws, he continued, "Despite her best efforts, she would invariably end up in situations she did not want to be a part of."
Dan Resin (Dr. Beeper)
Dan Resin as Dr. Beeper in 'Caddyshack'
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The Indiana-born Dan Resin costarred in Caddyshack as Dr. Beeper, the snobby, in-demand doctor who serves as a flunky of sorts for Judge Smails.
Resin was a regular both on and Off Broadway, but he's remembered by many for being one of several actors to portray the elegant Ty-D-Bol Man in ads for the toilet bowl cleaner.
Prior to Caddyshack, Resin appeared in several films, including two from the brilliant Larry Cohen: God Told Me To (1976) and The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977).He later worked with Brian De Palma on Wise Guys (1986) and Tony Randall on the mockumentary That's Adequate (1990).
Resin died in July 2010 at age 79 of complications from Parkinson's disease. Per his obituary, he spent most of his life in Secaucus, N.J., "where he was a communicant and Eucharistic Minister at Immaculate Conception Church."
Henry Wilcoxon (Bishop Fred Pickering)
Henry Wilcoxon as Bishop Fred Pickering in 'Caddyshack'
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Henry Wilcoxon enjoyed a long, fruitful career in show business prior to joining Caddyshack as Bishop Fred Pickering. In one of the film's most surprising sequences, his character golfs the best game of his life during a terrifying storm, misses a putt, curses God, and gets struck by lightning. "Rat farts," indeed.
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Wilcoxon worked closely with famed director Cecil B. DeMille. He starred in and produced many of DeMille's films, including The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and The Ten Commandments (1956). He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
He only appeared in one film after Caddyshack, the slasher Sweet Sixteen (1983). He also guested on a handful of TV series, including a 1983 episode of Pvt. Benjamin.
Wilcoxon died in March 1984 at age 78 after a struggle with cancer, per the New York Times.
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