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Canadian actor, comedian and musician (born 1952)

Dan Aykroyd CM OOnt
Aykroyd in 2009
Birth proper noun	Daniel Edward Aykroyd
Born	(1952-07-01) July ane, 1952 (age 69) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Medium	Film, stage, television
Years active	1971–nowadays
Genres	Sketch comedy, Improvisational comedy, musical comedy
Spouse	Donna Dixon ​ (thousand. 1983)​
Children	3, including Vera Sola
Relative(s)	Peter Aykroyd (brother)

Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM OOnt ( AK-royd; born July one, 1952) is a Canadian^[1] player, comedian, producer, musician and author. He was an original member of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" on Saturday Night Live (1975–1979). He performed with his friend John Belushi in a musical sketch on SNL, the Dejection Brothers, which they turned into an actual performing ring and then featured in the 1980 motion-picture show The Dejection Brothers. Aykroyd also conceived the premise for, and starred as Dr. Raymond Stantz in, Ghostbusters (1984), which spawned a sequel and eventually an entire media franchise.

During his tenure on SNL, Aykroyd appeared in a recurring serial of sketches well-nigh the Coneheads, a family of aliens stranded on World, which somewhen spawned a feature moving picture. After his divergence, Aykroyd has occasionally returned to the show equally invitee appearances or cameos. In 1990, Aykroyd was nominated for the Academy Award for All-time Supporting Histrion for his role as Boolie Werthan in the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy. He wrote, directed and starred in the 1991 motion-picture show Nothing but Trouble, his only directing credit. He starred every bit Reverend Mike Weber in his own sitcom, Soul Man (1997–1998). Aykroyd is as well a businessman, having co-founded the House of Blues chain of music venues and the Crystal Caput Vodka brand.

Early life [edit]

Aykroyd was built-in on July 1, 1952 (Canada Mean solar day) at The Ottawa Hospital^[2] in Ottawa, Ontario.^[three] He grew upwardly in Ottawa, Canada'south capital, where his father, Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd (1922–2020),^[4] a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Government minister Pierre Trudeau. His mother, Lorraine Hélène Marie (née Gougeon; Apr 27, 1918 – February 8, 2018),^{[5] [6]} was a secretarial assistant.^{[3] [vii] [viii]} His female parent was of French Canadian descent and his father was of English, Scottish, Irish, French, and Dutch ancestry.^[9] His brother, Peter, was also an role player.

He attended St. Pius 10 and St. Patrick's high schools, and studied criminology and folklore at Carleton University, just dropped out before completing his caste. He worked as a comedian in various Canadian nightclubs and ran an subsequently-hours speakeasy, Club 505, in Toronto for several years.^[10]

Aykroyd is a heterochromiac syndactylite - he has webbed centre toes on both feet and he has different coloured eyes: i is brown and i is green.^[11]

Aykroyd developed his musical career in Ottawa, particularly through his regular attendances at Le Hibou, a club that featured many blues artists. He describes these influences every bit follows:

There was a fiddling disco club there chosen Le Hibou, which in French means 'the owl.' And it was run by a admirer named Harvey Glatt, and he brought every, and I mean every, blues star that you or I would e'er accept wanted to have seen through Ottawa in the late '50s, well I guess more late '60s sort of, in around the Newport jazz rediscovery. I was going to Le Hibou and hearing James Cotton, Otis Spann, Pinetop Perkins, and Dirty Waters. I actually jammed behind Dingy Waters. S.P. Leary left the drum kit one night, and Muddy said 'anybody out at that place play drums? I don't have a drummer.' And I walked on stage and we started, I don't know, Little Cerise Rooster, something. He said 'keep that beat going, yous make Dirty feel skilful.' And I heard Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett). Many, many times I saw Howlin' Wolf. As well as the Doors. And of course Buddy Guy, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Sonny Terry and Credibility McGhee. So I was exposed to all of these players, playing at that place as part of this scene to service the academic community in Ottawa, a very well-educated community. Had I lived in a different town I don't retrieve that this would take happened, because information technology was just the confluence of educated government workers, and so besides all the colleges in the area, Ottawa Academy, Carleton, and all the schools—these people were interested in blues civilisation.^{[12] [13]}

Aykroyd's first professional feel, which he gained at the age of 17, was as a member of the cast of the short-lived Canadian sketch one-act serial The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour with Lorne Michaels, among others.^[fourteen] He was a member of the Second Urban center comedy troupe in 1973 in both Toronto and Chicago.^[15]

Saturday Night Live [edit]

Aykroyd gained fame on the American late-night one-act show Sat Night Live (SNL). He was originally hired, and paid $278 a week, as a writer for the show, just became a part of the cast before the series premiered. The original bandage was referred to on the show every bit "The Not Ready For Prime Time Players". Aykroyd was the youngest member of the cast, and appeared on the evidence for its first iv seasons, from 1975 to 1979. He brought a unique sensibility to the show, combining youth, unusual interests, talent as an impersonator, and an almost lunatic intensity. Guest host Eric Idle of Monty Python said that Aykroyd'south ability to write and human activity out characters flawlessly fabricated him the only member of the SNL cast capable of being a Python.^[16]

He was known for his impersonations of celebrities such as Jimmy Carter, Vincent Price, Richard Nixon, Rod Serling, Tom Snyder, Julia Kid, and others. He was also known for his recurring roles, such as Beldar, father of the Coneheads family; with Steve Martin, Yortuk Festrunk, i of the "Two Wild and Crazy Guys" brothers from Bratislava, Slovakia; sleazy late-night cablevision TV host E. Buzz Miller and his cousin, decadent maker of children's toys and costumes Irwin Mainway (who extolled the virtues and dedicated the safety of the "Pocketbook-o-Glass" toy); Fred Garvin – male person prostitute; and high-bred but low-brow critic Leonard Pinth-Garnell. Aykroyd and Jane Curtin famously parodied the Indicate/Counterpoint segment on the CBS news show 60 Minutes, which featured the liberal Shana Alexander and the bourgeois segregationist James Kilpatrick, by portraying the two as hating 1 another; Aykroyd's first words in response to Curtin's point were, "Jane, y'all ignorant slut!".^[17]

Aykroyd's eccentric talent was recognized by others in the highly competitive SNL environment; when he offset presented his famous "Super Bass-O-Matic '76" sketch, a fake Tv set commercial in which a garish, hyper-pitchman (based on Ron Popeil) touts a nutrient blender that turns an entire bass into liquid pulp, the other writers and bandage members considered the sketch "and then exhilaratingly strange that many call back sitting and listening, open-mouthed ... Nobody felt jealous of it considering they couldn't imagine writing anything remotely similar it."^[18] Aykroyd later revealed that the inspiration for the sketch was seeing his aunt Helene Gougeon (a noted culinary writer and nutrient columnist in Montreal) popular a bass into a blender in order to brand a bouillabaisse when he was 12 years onetime.^{[xix] [20]}

While Aykroyd was a close friend and partner with swain bandage member John Belushi and shared some of the same sensibilities, Aykroyd was more than reserved and less cocky-destructive. Aykroyd later recalled that, unlike Belushi and others of his peers, he was uninterested in recreational drug use.^[21]

In 1977, he received an Emmy Award for writing on SNL; he subsequently received two more nominations for writing and one for acting. In Rolling Stone 's February 2015 appraisal of all 141 SNL cast members to date, Aykroyd was ranked 5th (behind Belushi, Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, and Mike Myers). "Of all the original [SNL] greats, Aykroyd is the least imitated", they wrote, "because nobody else can practice what he did."^[22]

In afterwards decades, Aykroyd fabricated occasional guest appearances and unannounced cameos on SNL, often impersonating the American politician Bob Dole. He also brought back by characters including Irwin Mainway and Leonard Pinth-Garnell. In 1995, he appeared on the show to introduce a operation by Canadian stone band The Tragically Hip.^[23] Aykroyd, who is a fan of the band, had personally lobbied Lorne Michaels to book them as musical guests.^[24]

During some guest appearances, he resurrected the Blues Brothers musical act with frequent host John Goodman in place of Belushi. He became the 2nd fellow member of the original cast to host SNL in May 2003, when he appeared in the flavor finale. During his monologue, he performed a musical number with James Belushi similar to the Blues Brothers, but neither Aykroyd nor Belushi donned the famous black suit and sunglasses. On March 24, 2007, Aykroyd appeared as a crying fan of American Idol finalist Sanjaya Malakar (played by Andy Samberg) during "Weekend Update". On Feb xiv, 2009, he appeared every bit U.S. House Minority leader John Boehner. Aykroyd also made a surprise invitee appearance, along with many other SNL alumni, on the prove of March nine, 2013.^[25]

The Blues Brothers [edit]

Aykroyd was a close friend of John Belushi. According to Aykroyd, their first meeting helped spark the Dejection Brothers human action. When they met in a club that Aykroyd frequented, he played a dejection record in the groundwork, and it stimulated a fascination with blues in Belushi, who was primarily a fan of heavy stone bands at the time. Aykroyd educated Belushi on the finer points of blues music, and with a piddling encouragement from then-SNL music director Paul Shaffer, it led to the creation of their Blues Brothers characters.^{[26] [27]}

Backed by such experienced professional R&B sidemen equally pb guitarist Steve Cropper, sax man Lou Marini, trumpeter Alan Rubin, and bass guitarist Donald "Duck" Dunn, the Blues Brothers proved more an SNL novelty. Taking off with the public as a legitimate musical human activity, they performed live gigs and in 1978 released the hit album Briefcase Total of Dejection (drawn from the fact that Aykroyd, every bit "Elwood Blues", carried his dejection harmonicas in a briefcase that he kept handcuffed to his wrist, in the manner of a CIA courier; Belushi originally carried the key to those handcuffs). Briefcase Full of Blues eventually sold 3.5 meg copies, and is one of the highest-selling dejection albums of all time.^[12] The band was much further popularized in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, which Aykroyd co-wrote. A sequel, titled Blues Brothers 2000, was released in 1998 and featured John Goodman as Belushi'south replacement.

Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles was a regular haunt for the original Blues Brothers in the early on days of the band. Belushi and Aykroyd became fixtures at the recording studio, while fellow Blues Brother Steve Cropper called Cherokee his producing home. Whenever they needed a bass player, they were joined past some other Blues Brother, Donald "Duck" Dunn. During this time, Cropper, along with producing partner and Cherokee owner Bruce Robb, worked on a number of music projects with the two comedians/musicians, including Belushi'due south favorite band, Fearfulness, and afterward Aykroyd's movie Dragnet.

The Blues Brothers Band continues to bout today, both with and without Aykroyd. The band features original members Cropper and Marini, along with vocaliser Eddie Floyd. Aykroyd sometimes performs as Elwood, along with Belushi'south younger blood brother Jim Belushi, who plays "Blood brother Zee" on stage. They are most frequently backed by the Sacred Hearts Band.^[28]

Other moving-picture show and television work [edit]

Concurrent with his work in Sat Night Alive, Aykroyd played the role of Purvis Bickle, lift operator at the fictitious part cake 99 Sumach Street in the CBC Television serial Coming Up Rosie.

Afterwards leaving SNL, Aykroyd starred in a number of films, mostly comedies, with uneven results both commercially and artistically. His first three American feature films all co-starred Belushi. The offset, 1941 (1979), directed by Steven Spielberg, was a box-office thwarting. The 2nd, The Blues Brothers (1980), which he co-wrote with managing director John Landis, was a massive hit. The 3rd, Neighbors (1981) had mixed critical reaction, simply was some other box-office striking. One of his best-received performances was as a blueblood-turned-wretch in the 1983 comedy Trading Places, in which he co-starred with fellow SNL alumnus Eddie Tater and Jamie Lee Curtis.

In the early 1980s, Aykroyd began work on a script for the moving-picture show that eventually became Ghostbusters, inspired by his fascination with parapsychology. The script initially included a much greater fantasy element, including fourth dimension travel, but this was toned down substantially through piece of work on the script with Harold Ramis (who became a co-writer) and director Ivan Reitman. Aykroyd originally wrote the part of Dr. Peter Venkman with Belushi in heed, but rewrote it for Beak Murray after Belushi'south death. Aykroyd joked that the green ghost, afterwards known as "Slimer", was "the ghost of John Belushi" and was based on Belushi's party-animal personality. Ghostbusters was released in 1984 and became a huge success for Aykroyd, who also appeared every bit one of the lead actors; the movie earned nearly US$300million on a US$xxxmillion budget.

Aykroyd'southward side by side major film role was in the 1985 spy comedy film Spies Like Us, which like The Blues Brothers was co-conceived and co-written by Aykroyd, and directed by Landis. Aykroyd had once again intended for Belushi to be the other lead in the film; the part was instead given to SNL alumnus Chevy Chase. The film was intended as an homage to the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby Road to ... movies of the 1940s to 1960s. Bob Promise made a cameo appearance in the flick.

Dragnet, in which Aykroyd co-starred (with Tom Hanks) and co-wrote, was released in 1987. The film was both an homage and a satire of the previous Dragnet serial, with Aykroyd playing Sgt. Joe Fri as a constabulary officer whose law-and-order attitude is at odds with modern sensibilities.

Aykroyd appeared in five films released in 1988, all of them disquisitional and commercial failures. A sequel to Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, was released in 1989; Aykroyd and the other co-creators were reluctant to brand some other Ghostbusters film, but succumbed to pressure from the film'southward studio, Columbia Pictures.^[29] The film, while considered junior to the original, was some other large striking, earning Usa$215million. Aykroyd was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1989'southward Driving Miss Daisy. He was the second SNL bandage member to be nominated for an Oscar, the first being Joan Cusack.^{[ citation needed ]}

Aykroyd's directorial debut was 1991'due south Nothing simply Trouble starring Demi Moore, Chevy Hunt, John Candy, and Aykroyd, sporting a bulbous prosthetic nose. The film was a disquisitional and box-office bomb. Aykroyd'due south other films in the 1990s were mostly similarly poorly received, including Coneheads (as well based on a SNL skit), Exit to Eden, Blues Brothers 2000, and Getting Away with Murder. 3 exceptions were My Daughter (1991), which starred Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, Tommy Male child (1995), which starred SNL alumni David Spade and Chris Farley, in which Aykroyd played the function of Ray Zalinsky, and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), in which Aykroyd had a well-received role as a rival hit human being.

In 1994, Aykroyd made a guest appearance in an episode of the sitcom The Nanny as a refrigerator repairman. In 1997, he starred as an Episcopal priest in the ABC sitcom Soul Man, which lasted 2 seasons. In 1998, Aykroyd voiced the role of Chip, a wasp, in Antz. In 2001, he starred in the Woody Allen flick The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. Nigh of his flick roles since and so have tended to be minor grapheme parts in big-budget productions, such every bit a signals analyst in Pearl Harbor and a neurologist in 50 First Dates.

In 2009, Aykroyd and Ramis wrote and appeared in Ghostbusters: The Video Game, which also featured Beak Murray, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, William Atherton, and Brian Doyle-Murray. In 2010, he played the voice of the title grapheme, Yogi Acquit, in the alive-action/CGI-animated-movie Yogi Carry. That same year, Aykroyd and Chevy Chase guest-starred in the Family Guy episode "Spies Reminiscent of Us", an homage to Spies Like Us.

Aykroyd appeared in two February 2011 episodes of CBS's The Defenders as Judge Max Hunter, which also starred Jim Belushi.^[30] He also appeared on Height Chef Canada as a invitee judge.^[31]

In 2013, Aykroyd voiced the role of Scarecrow in Legends of Oz: Dorothy'due south Return. In 2015, he appeared in a Country Subcontract insurance commercial forth with Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman, as the Coneheads, talking to "Jake", a Land Subcontract agent.^[32]

Aykroyd was one of the executive producers of Ghostbusters, a long-discussed reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise, which was released in 2016. Aykroyd had a cameo appearance in the film, along with many of the residual of the original Ghostbusters bandage.^{[33] [34]}

In early 2021, he provided the voice of the Postage Stamp Beau in the episode The Dad-Feelings Limited in the TV series The Simpsons. He besides reprised his role of Dr. Ray Stantz in the movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Though Sony has not confirmed whatever farther sequels to Afterlife, Aykroyd expressed interest in having the surviving 3 actors of the original Ghostbusters team continuing to reprise their roles for as many sequels as possible while they were live.^[35]

Other musical endeavours [edit]

Aykroyd participated in the recording of "Nosotros Are the World" in 1985, as a fellow member of the chorus. He wrote the liner notes for boyfriend Ottawa-built-in dejection musician JW-Jones's album Bluelisted in 2008. Until its catastrophe in 2018, he hosted the internationally syndicated radio bear witness "Elwood'due south BluesMobile", formerly known as the Firm of Blues Radio Hour, under his Blues Brothers moniker Elwood Blues.^[36]

Business concern ventures [edit]

Bottle of Crystal Caput vodka

In 1992, Aykroyd and Difficult Rock Cafe co-founder Isaac Tigrett founded the House of Blues, a chain of music venues, with the mission to promote African-American cultural contributions of blues music and folk art.^{[ citation needed ]}

Many other music and Hollywood personalities helped to finance it at its showtime. It began equally a unmarried location in Cambridge, Massachusetts, although other locations quickly followed, starting with a venue in New Orleans in 1994. In 2004, Business firm of Blues became the second-largest live music promoter in the world, with seven venues and 22 amphitheatres in the United states of america and Canada. It was bought past Live Nation in 2006.^[37]

On New year'due south Eve, 1994, Aykroyd opened the Aykroyd'south Ghetto Firm Cafe on Princess Street in Kingston, Ontario.^[38]

In 2007, Aykroyd and artist John Alexander founded Crystal Head Vodka, a brand of high-end vodka known for its distinctive skull-shaped bottle and for being filtered through Herkimer diamond crystals.^[39]

Aykroyd is besides part owner of several wineries in Canada's Niagara Peninsula, and the company that distributes Patrón tequila in Canada.^{[xl] [41]}

In 2016, Aykroyd partnered with Tv set producers Eric Bischoff and Jason Hervey and game developer Ike McFadden to release an online-casino game that features the Dejection Brothers. Aykroyd provided the in-game voice of his Elwood Dejection grapheme via voiceover.^[42]

Charitable works [edit]

In 2009, Aykroyd contributed a serial of reminiscences on his upbringing in Canada for a clemency album titled Dan Aykroyd's Canada. He helped commencement the Blue Line Foundation, which is redeveloping flood-damaged lots in New Orleans and helping first responders purchase them at reduced prices. Coastal Blueish Line LLC, hopes to eventually rebuild 400 properties in New Orleans.^[43]

Aykroyd is a member of Canadian charity Artists Against Racism.^[44]

Personal life [edit]

Aykroyd was briefly engaged to actress Carrie Fisher. He proposed to her on the set of The Dejection Brothers picture, in which she appeared every bit a spurned girlfriend of John Belushi'south Jake Blues. The engagement ended when she reconciled with her former boyfriend, musician Paul Simon. In 1983, he married extra Donna Dixon; they met on the set of Doc Detroit released the aforementioned twelvemonth. They appeared together in iv additional films: Spies Similar Us (1985); Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983); The Couch Trip (1988); and Exit to Eden (1994). They take iii daughters, Danielle (known by her stage name, Vera Sola), Stella, and Belle.

Aykroyd maintains his Canadian roots as a longtime resident of Sydenham, Ontario, with his estate on Loughborough Lake.

In a 2004 NPR interview with host Terry Gross, Aykroyd said that he had been diagnosed in childhood with Tourette syndrome (TS) as well as Asperger syndrome (Every bit). He stated that his TS was successfully treated with therapy.^[45] In 2015, he stated during a HuffPost Prove interview with hosts Roy Sekoff and Marc Lamont Colina that his AS was "never diagnosed", but was "sort of a self-diagnosis" based on several of his own characteristics.^[46]

Aykroyd is a former reserve commander for the constabulary department in Harahan, Louisiana, working for Main of Police force Peter Dale. Aykroyd carried his badge with him at all times.^[47] He currently serves as a reserve deputy of the Hinds County Sheriff'south Section in Hinds Canton, Mississippi. He supports the reserves with a fundraiser concert forth with other blues and gospel singers in Mississippi.^[48]

Aykroyd is passionate about the outdoors, geology and paleontology which he attributes to watching his father work on constructing the Gatineau Parkway which included blasting through granite rock formations to run the highway.^[49] This passion has led Aykroyd to bring together renowned Canadian paleontologist Dr. Philip J. Currie on a number of digs, including fundraising digs and galas equally fundraisers for the construction of the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Wembley, Alberta.^[fifty] In recognition of Aykroyd's contributions, the museum'south theatre was named the Aykroyd Family unit Theatre.^[51]

Friendship with John Belushi [edit]

In an appearance on the Today show, Aykroyd referred to John Belushi and himself every bit "kindred spirits." In the biography Belushi, Aykroyd claims that Belushi was the simply man with whom he could ever dance. Aykroyd and Belushi were scheduled to present the Academy Honour for Visual Effects in 1982, just Belushi died only a few weeks prior to the ceremony. Though devastated past his friend's death, Aykroyd presented the honour alone, remarking from the phase: "My partner would have loved to have been here to nowadays this, given that he was something of a visual effect himself."^[52]

Aykroyd was openly hostile to the 1989 movie Wired, a biopic of Belushi which was based on the 1984 book of the same proper noun by journalist Bob Woodward, starred Michael Chiklis in his film debut as Belushi, and featured him every bit a character played by actor Gary Groomes. Forth with Belushi's widow Judith and blood brother Jim, and many other friends, assembly and relatives of Belushi, he boycotted the moving picture and the associated book for misrepresenting Belushi's life,^[53] and expressed his want that the moving picture would bomb at the box function, which it ultimately did. During an interview for MTV'due south The Big Picture in June 1988, he said, "I have witches working at present to jinx the thing... I hope it never gets seen and I am going to hurl all the negative energy I tin can and muster all my hell energies [against them]. My thunderbolts are out on this ane, quite truthfully." He had thespian J. T. Walsh removed from the film Loose Cannons afterward Walsh had already washed two days of filming, subsequently finding out that Walsh had been in the cast of Wired.^[54] Walsh was replaced past beau Canadian Paul Koslo, causing the motion-picture show a $125,000 production delay.

Behavior [edit]

Aykroyd considers himself a Spiritualist, stating:

I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist bluecoat. Mediums and psychic research take gone on for many, many years ... Loads of people have seen spirits, heard a vocalization, or felt the cold temperature. I believe that they are between here and at that place, that they be between the fourth and 5th dimensions, and that they visit united states frequently.^[55]

Aykroyd'due south great-grandfather, a dentist, was a mystic who corresponded with author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the subject area of Spiritualism, and was a member of the Lily Dale Society.^[55] Other than Spiritualism, Aykroyd is too interested in various other aspects of the paranormal, particularly UFOlogy. He is a lifetime member of and official Hollywood consultant for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Along these lines, he served, from 1996 to 2000, as host of Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal, which claimed to describe cases drawn from the archives of "The Role of Scientific Investigation and Research". In 2005, Aykroyd produced the DVD Dan Aykroyd: Unplugged on UFOs.

Aykroyd is interviewed for 80 minutes by UFOlogist David Sereda discussing in depth many aspects of the UFO phenomenon.^[56]

On September 29, 2009, Peter Aykroyd Sr., Dan'southward father, published a book entitled A History of Ghosts. This book chronicled the family's historical involvement in the Spiritualist movement, to which Aykroyd readily refers. Aykroyd wrote the introduction and accompanied his father on a serial of promotional activities, including launches in New York and Toronto, appearances on Larry Male monarch Live and Coast to Coast AM, and various other public-relations initiatives. Aykroyd as well read the introduction for the audio version of the book.^[57] In 1997, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry awarded Aykroyd in absentia the Snuffed Candle Award for hosting Psi Cistron and existence a "long-time promoter ... of paranormal claims". Following the awards, Joe Nickell wrote to Aykroyd asking for the research backside the "cases" presented on Psi Factor, particularly a claim that NASA scientists were "killed while investigating a falling star crash and behemothic eggs were constitute and incubated, yielding a flea the size of a hog".^[58]

Filmography [edit]

Film [edit]

Year	Championship	Part	Notes
1977	Dearest at First Sight	Roy
1979	Mr. Mike'south Mondo Video	Jack Lord Priest / Himself
	1941	Motor Sergeant Frank Tree
1980	The Dejection Brothers	Elwood J. Dejection	Also author
1981	Neighbors	Vic Zeck
1982	It Came from Hollywood	Himself	Documentary
1983	Physician Detroit	Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit
	Trading Places	Louis Winthorpe Iii
	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Passenger / Ambulance Driver
1984	Ghostbusters	Dr. Raymond Stantz	Also writer
	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Fine art Weber	Cameo
	Zippo Lasts Forever	Buck Heller
1985	Into the Night	Herb
	Spies Like U.s.a.	Austin Millbarge	Likewise writer
1987	Dragnet	Sergeant Joe Fri
1988	The Couch Trip	John Due west. Burns Jr.
	The Great Outdoors	Roman Craig
	Caddyshack Two	Captain Tom Everett
	My Stepmother Is an Alien	Steven Mills
1989	Driving Miss Daisy	Boolie Werthan
	Ghostbusters II	Dr. Raymond Stantz	Also author
1990	Loose Cannons	Detective Ellis Fielding
	Masters of Menace	Johnny Lewis
1991	My Girl	Harry Sultenfuss
	Aught but Trouble	Approximate Alvin "J.P" Valkenheiser Bobo	Also writer and director
1992	Chaplin	Mack Sennett
	Sneakers	Darren "Mother" Roskow
	This Is My Life	Arnold Moss
1993	Coneheads	Beldar Conehead	Too writer
1994	A Century of Cinema	Himself	Documentary
	Get out to Eden	Fred Lavery
	My Girl 2	Harry Sultenfuss
	North	Pa Tex
1995	Canadian Bacon	OPP Officer	Uncredited cameo
	Casper	Dr. Raymond Stantz	Uncredited cameo
	The Random Cistron	Dexter	Voice office
	Tommy Male child	Ray Zalinsky
1996	Rainbow	Sheriff Wyatt Hampton
	Celtic Pride	Jimmy Flaherty
	Feeling Minnesota	Detective Ben Costikyan
	My Fellow Americans	President Bill Haney
	Getting Abroad with Murder	Jack Lambert
	Sgt. Bilko	Colonel John T. Hall
1997	Grosse Pointe Bare	Grocer
1998	Antz	Chip	Vox function
	Blues Brothers 2000	Elwood J. Dejection	Too writer and producer
	Susan's Plan	Bob
1999	Diamonds	Lance Agensky
2000	The House of Mirth	Gus Trenor
	Loser	Dad
	Stardom	Barry Levine
2001	The Curse of the Jade Scorpion	Chris Magruder
	Evolution	Governor Lewis
	The Frank Truth	Himself	Documentary
	On the Nose	Dr. Barry Davis
	Pearl Harbor	Captain Harold Thurman
2002	Crossroads	Pete Wagner
	Unconditional Love	Max Beasly
2003	Vivid Young Things	Lord Monomark
2004	Christmas with the Kranks	Vic Frohmeyer
	fifty Outset Dates	Dr. Joseph Keats
	Intern Academy	Dr. Cyrill Kipp
2007	I Now Pronounce You lot Chuck & Larry	Captain Phineas Tucker
	Shortcut to Happiness	Julius Jenson
2008	War, Inc.	The Erstwhile Vice President
2010	Yogi Bear	Yogi Bear	Vocalisation function
2012	The Entrada	Wade Motch
	The Ultimate Sacrifice	Narrator	Voice Documentary
2013	Behind the Candelabra	Seymour Heller
2014	Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return	Scarecrow	Voice function
	Tammy	Don
	Get on Upward	Ben Bart
2015	Pixels	1982 Championship MC	Cameo
2016	Ghostbusters	Taxi Commuter	Cameo As well executive producer
2019	Cleanin' Upwards the Boondocks: Remembering Ghostbusters	Himself	Documentary
2021	Ghostbusters: Afterlife	Dr. Raymond Stantz	Likewise executive producer

Television [edit]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1974	The Souvenir of Winter	Goodly / Rotten / Maple	Idiot box short; Phonation
1975–1978	Coming Up Rosie	Purvis Bickle	32 episodes
1975–2013	Sat Night Live	Various Roles	97 episodes
1976	The Beach Boys: It'south OK	Cop	Television receiver film; also author
1978	All You Need Is Cash	Brian Thigh	Boob tube film
1986–1991	The Real Ghostbusters		Creator
1990	The Dave Thomas Comedy Evidence	Various	Episode 1.2
	It'southward Garry Shandling's Prove	Boolie Shandling	Episode: "Driving Miss Garry"
	The Earth Solar day Special	Vic'south Buddy	Special
1991	Tales from the Catacomb	Helm Mulligan	Episode: "Yellow"
1994	The Nanny	Repair Homo	Episode: "Sunday in the Park with Fran"
1995	Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny	Himself	Special
1996–2000	Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal	Himself (host)	88 episodes
1997	The Arrow	Crawford Gordon	4 episodes; also artistic consultant
	Dwelling house Improvement	Reverend Mike Weber	Episode: "Losing My Religion"
1997–1998	Soul Man	Reverend Mike Weber	25 episodes
2000	Normal, Ohio	Frank Wozniak	Episode: "He Always Gets His Man"
2001	Earth vs. the Spider	Inspector Jack Grillo	Television film
	History's Mysteries	Narrator (phonation)	Episode: "The Children's Crusade"
2002–2009	According to Jim	Danny Michalsky	5 episodes
2006	Living with Fran	Estimate	Episode: "Going Crazy with Fran"
2009	Family Guy	Himself (vocalism)	Episode: "Spies Reminiscent of Us"
2011	The Defenders	Guess Max Hunter	ii episodes
2012	Happily Divorced	Harold	Episode: "Fran-alyze This"
2017–2019	Workin' Moms	Kate's Dad	4 episodes
2019	The Conners	Buddy	Episode: "The Preemie Monologues"[59]
2020	Hotel Paranormal	Narrator (vocalization)	All episodes
2021	The Simpsons	Postage Postage stamp Fellow (voice)	Episode: "The Dad-Feelings Limited"

Video games [edit]

Year	Championship	Voice function	Notes
2009	Ghostbusters: The Video Game	Ray Stantz	Also writer
2010	Yogi Bear: The Video Game	Yogi Bear
2015	Lego Dimensions	Ray Stantz	Archive audio
2019	Planet Coaster	Ray Stantz	[60]
2019	Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered	Ray Stantz	Likewise author
2022	Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed	Ray Stantz	[61] [62] [63]

Guest appearances on SNL [edit]

Engagement	Episode	Host / Musical guest	Role(s)
Feb 13, 1988	Season 13, Ep. 11	Justine Bateman, Terence Trent D'Arby	Bob Dole
May 15, 1993	Flavour eighteen, Ep. 20	Kevin Kline, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon
March 25, 1995	Season 20, Ep. 16	John Goodman, The Tragically Hip	Bob Dole, Elwood Blues, Irwin Mainway, Tom Snyder, Rush Limbaugh, Robert Stack, Miner
February 7, 1998	Season 23, Ep. 14	John Goodman, Paula Cole	Bob Dole, Elwood Blues, Irwin Mainway, Ernesto
September 26, 1998	Season 24, Ep, 01	Cameron Diaz, The Neat Pumpkins	Yortuk Festrunk
November three, 2001	Season 27, Ep, 04	John Goodman, Ja Rule	Dr. Keith Vester, Elwood Dejection, Leonard Pinth-Garnell
February 2, 2002	Season 27, Ep. 12	Britney Spears	Mormon, Judge Lindenwell
March 8, 2003	Season 28, Ep. 14	Queen Latifah, Ms. Dynamite	Bob Dole
May 17, 2003	Flavor 28, Ep. 20	Dan Aykroyd, Beyoncé	Andrew Card, Patrick Fitzpatrick, Esteban Donnie "The Finger" Dabinski, Butch, Sam Elliott
March 24, 2007	Season 32, Ep. 16	Peyton Manning, Carrie Underwood	Himself
February 14, 2009	Flavor 34, Ep. sixteen	Alec Baldwin, The Jonas Brothers	John Boehner
March 9, 2013	Season 38, Ep. 16	Justin Timberlake	Himself, Yortuk Festrunk
February xv, 2015	Season 40	40th Ceremony Special	Super Bass-O-Matic 2150 Spokesperson, Elwood Blues

Awards and nominations [edit]

In 1977, Aykroyd received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series for his collaborative work on Saturday Night Live. In 1994, he received an honorary Dr. of Literature caste from Carleton University. In 1999, Aykroyd was made a Fellow member of the Order of Canada.^[64] He was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2002.^[65] In 2017, he was fabricated a fellow member of the Order of Ontario in recognition for beingness "one of the earth'south nearly popular entertainers, well-known for his fourth dimension on Saturday Dark Live and the 1984 archetype motion-picture show Ghostbusters."^[66]

Yr	Nominated work	Award	Results	Ref
1977	Saturday Dark Live	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series (shared with other writers)	Won	[67]
1978		Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Variety or Music	Nominated	[68] [69]
		Primetime Emmy Honour for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Serial (shared with other writers)	Nominated
1979		Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy-Multifariousness or Music Programme	Nominated	[70] [71]
		Primetime Emmy Honour for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy or One-act-Variety or Music Series (shared with other writers)	Nominated
1985	Ghostbusters	Hugo Honor for Best Dramatic Presentation	Nominated	[72]
1989	Caddyshack Ii	Aureate Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor	Won	[73]
1990	Driving Miss Daisy	University Award for Best Supporting Actor	Nominated	[74]
1990		American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actor in a Moving-picture show	Nominated	[75]
1992	Nothing But Problem	Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director	Nominated	[76]
		Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay (shared with Peter Aykroyd)	Nominated
		Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor	Won
1995	Exit to Eden North	Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor	Nominated	[77]
	Exit to Eden	Aureate Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple (shared with Rosie O'Donnell)	Nominated
2002	Crossroads	The Stinkers Bad Flick Award for Worst Imitation Accent: Male person	Nominated	[78]
2007	Sabbatum Night Live	TV State Honor for Favorite Elvis Impersonation (shared with John Belushi)	Nominated	[79]
2018	Workin' Moms	Canadian Screen Award for All-time Supporting or Guest Actor, One-act	Nominated	[fourscore]
2020		Canadian Screen Laurels for Best Guest Performance, Comedy	Nominated	[81]

Run across besides [edit]

• List of Canadian actors
• Listing of celebrities who ain wineries and vineyards
• Saturday Night Live cast members

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Further reading [edit]

• Hill, Doug, and Weingrad, Jeff, Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Sabbatum Night Live. Vintage Books, 1986. ISBN 0-394-75053-5.

External links [edit]

• Dan Aykroyd at IMDb
• Dan Aykroyd at AllMovie
• Dan Aykroyd, Still Full of the 'Blues' – interview on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross – originally aired Nov 22, 2004

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