The role Ratray is unquestionably most known for is that of Buzz McCallister from the "Home Alone" franchise. It makes sense considering the massive success of the original 1990 movie and the fact that Ratray reprised the role for 1992's "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" and 2021's "Home Sweet Home Alone."
Buzz is the antagonist of "Home Alone" before the Wet Bandits ever show up and begin harassing Kevin McCallister (Macauley Culkin) as the two get into a dust up over pizza, and Buzz announces to Kevin, "You're a disease," a line that replays for Kevin later in the film.
The actor still gets asked about the bullying Buzz all these years later, but he says he never knew what the movie would become, even though he was a fan of John Hughes at the time and wanted in on the film (via Complex). The experience also went beyond influencing Ratray's professional life and moved into the personal too, as he remains close to many of the cast members, with a group planning a reunion as recently as December 2021. "They have been planning a reunion online and I just recently, as in a couple of days ago, got on their messenger chat thread, and I have been trying to keep up with Jed Cohen and Diana [Rein] and Terrie [Snell] and Angela Goethals and Hillary Wolf," Ratray said (per People).
