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Daniel Hayes Ramis (born August 10, 1994)1 is an American actor and producer, best known as the youngest son of the late Harold Ramis. He made his on-screen debut in Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016), carrying the Ramis name into the franchise a generation after his father defined it as Egon Spengler, and has since built a career behind the camera as a film producer.
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Daniel Hayes Ramis was born on August 10, 1994, in Los Angeles, California, the son of Harold Ramis and his second wife, Erica Mann.2 He grew up as the youngest of three children: his older brother is Julian Arthur Ramis (born 1990), and his older half-sister, Violet Ramis Stiel, is from Harold's first marriage.2 The family also welcomed Ayda Wondemu, an Ethiopian exchange student, in 2004, who became a close part of the Ramis household.3 Through his father, Daniel has Jewish heritage tracing to Ukrainian and Polish roots.2
Harold famously gave Daniel considerable creative latitude from an early age. Violet Ramis Stiel later described her younger brother as "charismatic, yet also intense and independent, someone who isn't afraid to fight for what he wants," noting he had an instinct for humor that rivalled their father's own.3
Harold Ramis died on February 24, 2014, from complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis.2 Daniel was nineteen at the time. On February 14, 2015, at the Writers Guild Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Daniel delivered the acceptance speech on behalf of his family when the Writers Guild of America honored his father posthumously with the Screen Laurel Award, the guild's lifetime achievement prize for screenwriting.4 His speech drew a standing ovation, and he noted with wry timing: "I'm sure that my dad is in clothes far more comfortable than these."5
Daniel Ramis has worked primarily as a film producer. He wrote and produced two short films: Dingus Wishes (2018), an eight-minute comedy drama that received a nomination for Best Professional Short (Narrative) at the Chicago Southland International Film Festival, and Everything Is Fine (2019).1
In 2023 he served as associate producer on No Hard Feelings (Sony Pictures), directed by Gene Stupnitsky and starring Jennifer Lawrence.1 The film was released theatrically in the United States on June 23, 2023,6 and was a commercial success, marking a significant step in Ramis's move into feature-length production.
He maintains a largely private public profile and has no reported public social media presence.
Daniel Ramis appeared in an uncredited cameo in Ghostbusters: Answer the Call as the Metal Head, an exuberant Ozzy Osbourne fan gathered outside the Stonebrook Theatre for Rock Revenge Fest XIV. In Chapter 8 of the film, as Rowan North slips into the venue to plant a Hyper-Ionization Device, he runs into the Metal Head outside, who erupts in excitement: he shouts that Ozzy rocks and gives Rowan an enthusiastic high five before Rowan continues on his way.
The Metal Head wears a Mastodon t-shirt featuring the band's "20 Million BC" design, which is itself a visual homage to the poster for the 1966 film One Million Years B.C.
The casting was a deliberate tribute by director Paul Feig to Harold Ramis, who had died in February 2014. By placing Daniel in the film, the production connected the Ramis family to the Ghostbusters franchise for a new generation, a gesture widely noted in coverage of the film's production. The Harold Ramis bust that appears outside Dean Harold Filmore's office at Columbia University in the same film was another tribute; after filming, the bust was given to Erica Ramis and later donated to the Harold Ramis Film School at The Second City in Chicago.7
Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.
Daniel Ramis, IMDb, accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8274277/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3
"Harold Ramis," Wikipedia, accessed 2026-06-13, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ramis ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
Ramis Stiel, Violet (June 5, 2018). Ghostbuster's Daughter: Life with My Dad, Harold Ramis. Blue Rider Press, New York NY USA. ISBN 9780735217898. ↩ ↩2
Writers Guild of America West, "WGAW to Honor Late Screenwriter-Director Harold Ramis With 2015 Screen Laurel Award," accessed 2026-06-13, https://awards.wga.org/awards/awards-recipients/laurel-awards/screen-laurel-award/harold-ramis ↩
Variety, "WGA Awards Winners 2015" (February 14, 2015), https://variety.com/2015/film/news/wga-awards-winners-2015-screenplay-tv-drama-comedy-1201434302/ Daniel Ramis: "I'm sure that my dad is in clothes far more comfortable than these." ↩
"No Hard Feelings (2023 film)," Wikipedia, accessed 2026-06-13, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Hard_Feelings_(2023_film) ↩
Variety, "The Second City Opens the Harold Ramis Film School in Chicago" (March 31, 2016), https://variety.com/2016/film/news/second-city-harold-ramis-film-school-1201701061/ ↩
