JANIS, LOU

Legendary caddy master at the Indian Hill Club in Winnetka, Illinois, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Janis introduced the Murray brothers to the world of caddying and was the real-life model for the Lou Loomis character in Caddyshack.

Ed Murray, Bill’s oldest brother, was the first of the Murray boys to work under Janis’s tutelage. “I was an altar boy at the church, and me and four boys serving Mass saw this man standing off to the side of the sacristy,” Ed recalled in a 2005 interview with Chicago magazine. “After Mass he told us he was the caddy master for the Indian Hill Club. If we wanted to make some money, he said, he would take us up that day and show us how to do it.” Brian, Bill, and Andy Murray soon followed in Ed’s footsteps.

Janis was a rough-hewn but neatly dressed man who drove a Ford Falcon. Bill Murray once dubbed him the “prince of polyester.” A compulsive gambler, he was known to bet heavily on NCAA football games. While working at the Indian Hill Club in the mid-1960s, Bill Murray helped Janis make his weekly college football picks.

JERK, THE

Murray filmed a cameo as a gay Jewish interior decorator that was cut from the final version of this 1979 comedy starring Steve Martin as the titular wanker.

JUNGLE BURGER

See Shame of the Jungle.