Veteran comedic-actor and Saturday Night Live alumnus Bill Murray has played pot smokers in many movies (most notably Caddyshack), and was arrested and convicted for possessing nine pounds of marijuana in 1970.

Little is know about bust, which took place at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Murray was expelled from Regis College after the arrest.

Murray soon followed his brother Brian to Second City in Chicago, where he met John Belushi, Dan Akyroyd and Gilda Radner, who would go on to become original Saturday Night Live cast members. Murray, who was born on Sept. 21, 1950 in Wilmette, Illinois, joined SNL in 1977, replacing Chevy Chase.

Famous for such SNL characters as Todd (the dork) and Nick (the lounge singer), Murray soon starred in Meatballs and left the cast in 1980 - the year he appeared as Karl, the dimwitted gardener in Caddyshack. This was the first of several pot-smoking characters he would portray.

After lighting up a huge "Bob Marley joint," Karl tells Ty (Chase):

"This is s hybrid. This is a cross between Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent and Northern California Sinsimilla. The amazing thing abut this stuff is you can play holes on it in the afternoon, take it home, and just get stoned to the bejeezus at night on this stuff. I've got pounds of this stuff."

The same year Murray portrayed Hunter S. Thompson in Where the Buffalo Roam.

Murray went on to star in Stripes, Tootsie, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Rushmore, Lost in Translation and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, in which he plays the pot-smoking ship captain. In Broken Flowers, Murray's Don Johnston inspects a joint and declares, "He’s right. It’s just cannabis sativa."

Murray should know. During the 2008 divorce from his second wife Jennifer Butler, he was charged him with "adultery, addiction to marijuana and alcohol, abusive behavior, physical abuse, sexual addictions and frequent abandonment."

They have four sons and Murray has two more sons from his first marriage to Margaret Kelly.

Murray co-owns four minor league baseball teams and three Murray Bros. Caddy Shack restaurants in Florida, regularly plays golf and wrote the book, Cinderella Story: My Life in Golf.

His next movie, Get Low, opened on July 30. Murray has agreed to reunite with Akyroyd and Harold Ramis for Ghostbusters III, slated for 2012.

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