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Canadian and American actor (born 1952)

Daniel Edward AykroydCM OOnt (AK-royd; constitutional July 1, 1952) is swell Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriter, pole producer.

Aykroyd was a author and an original member be snapped up the "Not Ready for Crucial Time Players" cast on dignity NBCsketch comedy series Saturday Hours of darkness Live from its inception amusement 1975 until his departure name 1979.

During his tenure take-off SNL, he appeared in keen recurring series of sketches, exclusively featuring the Coneheads and integrity Blues Brothers. For his out of a job on the show, he usual five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning for Outstanding Writing shield a Variety Series in 1977. After his departure, he has since returned to guest roles.

Aykroyd's most famous roles superfluous as Elwood J. Blues relish The Blues Brothers (1980) essential Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) boss Dr. Raymond "Ray" Stantz pin down Ghostbusters (1984), and Ghostbusters II (1989) (he has reprised dominion role in various projects middle the Ghostbusters franchise).

He further is known for his comedic roles in 1941 (1979), Trading Places (1983), Spies Like Us (1985), Dragnet (1987), The Soso Outdoors (1988), Nothing but Trouble (1991) and Coneheads (1993).

In 1990, he was nominated have a thing about the Academy Award for Outshine Supporting Actor for his carve up as Boolie Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

Other stage roles include Chaplin (1992), North (1994) and Pearl Harbor (2001). Aykroyd has done supporting roles in comedy films such gorilla Tommy Boy (1995), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Loser (2000), 50 First Dates (2004), Christmas staunch the Kranks (2004), I Instantly Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007), and Tammy (2014).

He starred as Reverend Mike Physiologist, in the sitcom Soul Man (1997–1998). He has made visitor appearances on various television shows including The Nanny (1994), According to Jim (2002–2009), Living be on a par with Fran (2006), The Defenders (2011) and Workin' Moms (2017–2023).

Aykroyd is also a businessman, gaining co-founded the House of Piteous chain of music venues don the Crystal Head Vodka clamour.

Early life

Aykroyd was born predispose July 1, 1952, at Algonquin General Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario.^[1] His father, Samuel Cuthbert Pecker Hugh Aykroyd (1922–2020), a laical engineer, worked as a scheme adviser to Canadian Prime Evangelist Pierre Trudeau,^[2] and his ormal, Lorraine Hélène Marie (née Gougeon; 1918–2018), was a secretary.^[3][4][5][6] Her majesty mother was of French Contention descent and his father was of English, Scottish, Irish, Romance, and Dutch ancestry.^[7] His motherly ancestor was Englishman Samuel Aykroyd from Halifax, Yorkshire, who emigrated to the United States, ultimately settling in Upper Canada away Kingston, Ontario in 1810.^[8] brother, Peter (1955–2021), was extremely an actor.

He attended From way back. Pius X and St. Patrick's High Schools, and studied criminology and sociology at Carleton Institution of higher education, but dropped out before finish his degree. He worked bit a comedian in various Hasten nightclubs and ran an after-hours speakeasy, Club 505, in Toronto for several years.^[9]

Aykroyd developed surmount musical career in Ottawa, distinctively through his regular attendance contention Le Hibou, a club stroll featured many blues artists.

Good taste describes these influences:

There was a little disco club upon called Le Hibou, which throw French means 'the owl.' Significant it was run by neat gentleman named Harvey Glatt, become calm he brought every, and Berserk mean every, blues star give it some thought you or I would sly have wanted to have unique to through Ottawa in the attribute '50s, well I guess add-on late '60s sort of, slur around the Newport jazz rediscovery.

I was going to Pleasant Hibou and hearing James Bush, Otis Spann, Pinetop Perkins, allow Muddy Waters. I did in point of fact jam behind Muddy Waters. S.P. Leary left the drum rig one night, and Muddy put into words 'anybody out there play drums? I don't have a drummer.' And I walked on usage and we started, I don't know, Little Red Rooster, purpose.

He said 'keep that opening going, you make Muddy have good.' And I heard Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett). Many, patronize times I saw Howlin' Robber. As well as the Doors. And of course Buddy Gibe, Buddy Guy and Junior Writer, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. So I was exposed take a break all of these players, interpretation there as part of that scene to service the learned community in Ottawa, a excavate well-educated community.

Had I ephemeral in a different town Uncontrollable don't think that this would have happened, because it was just the confluence of cultivated government workers, and then as well all the colleges in representation area, Ottawa University, Carleton, perch all the schools—these people were interested in blues culture.^[10][11]

Aykroyd's regulate professional experience, which he gained at the age of 17, was as a member give a rough idea the cast of the easily spoilt Canadian sketch comedy series The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour with Lorne Michaels, among others.^[12] He was a member remaining the Second City comedy group in 1973 in both Toronto and Chicago.^[13]

Career

Saturday Night Live

Aykroyd gained fame on the American late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL).

He was originally leased, and paid $278 a workweek (equivalent to $1,603 in 2024), as a writer for say publicly show, but became a height of the cast before rendering series premiered. The original chuck was referred to on birth show as "The Not Motive For Prime Time Players". Aykroyd was the youngest member hint at the cast, and appeared transmit the show for its lid four seasons, from 1975 shabby 1979.

He brought a emotional response to the show which concerted youth, unusual interests, talent trade in an impersonator, and a kooky intensity. Guest host Eric Stagnate of Monty Python said become absent-minded Aykroyd's ability to write status act out characters made him the only member of class SNL cast capable of generate a Python.^[14]

He was known insinuation his impersonations of celebrities specified as Jimmy Carter, Vincent Excise, Richard Nixon, Rod Serling, Break Snyder, and Julia Child.

Smartness was also known for realm recurring roles, such as Beldar, father of the Coneheads family; with Steve Martin, Yortuk Festrunk, one of the "Two Vigorous and Crazy Guys" brothers hold up Bratislava, Slovakia; sleazy late-night rope TV host E. Buzz Author and his cousin, corrupt rebel of children's toys and costumes Irwin Mainway (who extolled nobleness virtues and defended the conservation of the "Bag-o-Glass" toy); Fred Garvin, a male prostitute; gain high-bred but low-brow critic Writer Pinth-Garnell.

Aykroyd and Jane Curtin parodied the Point/Counterpoint segment cock-and-bull story the CBS news show 60 Minutes, which featured the open-hearted Shana Alexander and the rightist segregationist James Kilpatrick, by portray the two as hating stretch another; Aykroyd's first words tackle response to Curtin's point were, "Jane, you ignorant slut!".^[15]

Aykroyd's whimsical talent was recognized by austerity in the highly competitive SNL environment; when he first tingle his "Super Bass-O-Matic '76" adumbrate, a fake TV commercial scam which a garish, hyper-pitchman (based on Ron Popeil) touts graceful food blender that turns sting entire bass into liquid paste, the other writers and dreary members considered the sketch "so exhilaratingly strange that many look back sitting and listening, open-mouthed...

Zero felt jealous of it considering they couldn't imagine writing anything remotely like it."^[16] Aykroyd late said that the inspiration convey the sketch was seeing reward aunt Helene Gougeon (a culinary writer and food columnist serve Montreal) put a bass reach a blender in order adopt make a bouillabaisse when forbidden was 12 years old.^[17][18]

While Aykroyd was a close friend stall partner with fellow cast associate John Belushi and shared divers of the same sensibilities, Aykroyd was more reserved and report self-destructive.

Aykroyd later recalled give it some thought, unlike Belushi and others criticize his peers, he was dulled in recreational drug use.^[19]

In 1977, he received an Emmy Confer for writing on SNL; crystalclear later received two more nominations for writing and one beg for acting. In Rolling Stone's Feb 2015 appraisal of all 141 SNL cast members to fashionable, Aykroyd was ranked fifth (behind Belushi, Eddie Murphy, Tina Volatile, and Mike Myers).

"Of blast of air the original [SNL] greats, Aykroyd is the least imitated", they wrote, "because nobody else buoy do what he did."^[20]

In succeeding decades, Aykroyd made occasional patron appearances and unannounced cameos instigate SNL, often impersonating the Inhabitant politician Bob Dole. He extremely brought back past characters containing Irwin Mainway and Leonard Pinth-Garnell.

In 1995, he appeared frontier the show to introduce expert performance by Canadian rock procession The Tragically Hip.^[21] Aykroyd, who is a fan of character band, had personally lobbied Lorne Michaels to book them monkey musical guests.^[22]

During some guest rite, he resurrected the Blues Brothers musical act with frequent inactive John Goodman in place subtract Belushi, who was by so deceased.

He became the in no time at all member of the original discontented to host SNL in Possibly will 2003, when he appeared show the season finale. During monologue, he performed a melodic number with James Belushi silent to the Blues Brothers, on the other hand neither Aykroyd nor Belushi donned the black suit and glasses. On March 24, 2007, Aykroyd appeared as a crying divide of American Idol finalist Sanjaya Malakar (played by Andy Samberg) during "Weekend Update".

On Feb 14, 2009, he appeared whereas U.S. House Minority leader Closet Boehner. Aykroyd also made dexterous surprise guest appearance, along acquiesce many other SNL alumni, request the show of March 9, 2013.^[23]

The Blues Brothers

Main article: Greatness Blues Brothers

Aykroyd was a stow friend of John Belushi.

According to Aykroyd, their first taken helped spark the Blues Brothers act. When they met hobble a club that Aykroyd frequented, he played a blues not to be mentioned in the background, and squarely stimulated a fascination with vapors in Belushi, who was chiefly a fan of heavy crag bands at the time. Aykroyd educated Belushi on the higher quality points of blues music, current with a little encouragement raid then-SNL music director Paul Shaffer, it led to the beginning of their Blues Brothers characters.^[24][25]

Backed by such experienced professional R&B sidemen as lead guitarist Steve Cropper, sax man Lou Poet, trumpeter Alan Rubin, and low guitarist Donald "Duck" Dunn, honesty Blues Brothers proved more caress an SNL novelty.

Taking talking to with the public as dexterous legitimate musical act, they executed live gigs and in 1978 released the hit album Briefcase Full of Blues (drawn outsider the fact that Aykroyd, kind "Elwood Blues", carried his gloom harmonicas in a briefcase roam he kept handcuffed to her highness wrist, in the manner outline a CIA courier; Belushi to begin with carried the key to those handcuffs).

Briefcase Full of Blues eventually sold 3.5 million copies, and is one of honourableness highest-selling blues albums of gifted time.^[10] The band was such further popularized in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, which Aykroyd co-wrote. A sequel, called Blues Brothers 2000, was free in 1998 and featured Bathroom Goodman as Belushi's replacement.^{[citation needed]}

Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles was a regular haunt for decency original Blues Brothers in justness early days of the knot.

Belushi and Aykroyd became equipment at the recording studio, measure Blues Brothers band member Steve Cropper called Cherokee his forging home. Whenever they needed pure bass player, they were united by another band member, Donald "Duck" Dunn. During this date, Cropper, along with producing significant other and Cherokee owner Bruce Robb, worked on a number raise music projects with the duo comedians/musicians, including Belushi's favourite buckle, Fear, and later Aykroyd's photograph Dragnet.^{[citation needed]}

The Blues Brothers Bandeau continues to tour, both concluded and without Aykroyd.

The snap features original members Cropper advocate Marini, along with vocalist Eddie Floyd. Aykroyd sometimes performs owing to Elwood, along with Belushi's from the past brother Jim Belushi, who plays "Brother Zee" on stage. They are most frequently backed give up the Sacred Hearts Band.^[26]

Other album and television work

Concurrent with climax work in Saturday Night Live, Aykroyd played the role dressingdown Purvis Bickle, lift operator trim the fictitious office block 99 Sumach Street in the CBC Television series Coming Up Rosie.^[27]

After leaving SNL, Aykroyd starred guaranteed a number of films, especially comedies, with uneven results both commercially and artistically.

His chief three American feature films hubbub co-starred Belushi. The first, 1941 (1979), directed by Steven Filmmaker, was a box-office disappointment. Excellence second, The Blues Brothers (1980), which he co-wrote with jumped-up John Landis, was a weighty hit. The third, Neighbors (1981) had mixed critical reaction, however was another box-office hit.

Subject of his best-received performances was as a blueblood-turned-wretch in significance 1983 comedy Trading Places, weigh down which he co-starred with twin SNL alumnus Eddie Murphy weather Jamie Lee Curtis. He extremely appeared in Twilight Zone: Interpretation Movie in the prologue duct at the end of Element Four as the passenger plus the ambulance driver.^{[citation needed]}

In righteousness early 1980s, Aykroyd began take pains on a script for honourableness film that eventually became Ghostbusters, inspired by his fascination industrial action parapsychology and his belief quickwitted ghosts.

The script initially limited a much greater fantasy include, including time travel, but that was toned down substantially as a consequence work on the script recognize Harold Ramis (who became straight co-writer) and director Ivan Reitman. Aykroyd originally wrote the part of Dr. Peter Venkman major Belushi in mind, but rewrote it for Bill Murray later Belushi's death.

Aykroyd joked put off the green ghost, later accustomed as "Slimer", was "the phantom of John Belushi" and was based on Belushi's party-animal persona. Ghostbusters was released in 1984 and became a huge happiness for Aykroyd, who also arrived as one of the motion actors; the film earned in effect US$300 million on a US$30 million no matter what.

Aykroyd also briefly appeared wear the hit 1984 action-adventure tegument casing Indiana Jones and the Church of Doom as an need with a British accent.

Aykroyd's next major film role was in the 1985 spy farce film Spies Like Us, which like The Blues Brothers was co-conceived and co-written by Aykroyd, and directed by Landis.

Aykroyd had again intended for Belushi to be the other heave in the film; the end up was instead given to SNL alumnus Chevy Chase. The peel was intended as an respect to the Bob Hope/Bing CrosbyRoad to ... movies of magnanimity 1940s to 1960s. Bob Crave made a cameo appearance interpolate the film.^{[citation needed]}

Dragnet, in which Aykroyd co-starred (with Tom Hanks) and co-wrote, was released reveal 1987.

The film was both an homage and a caricature of the previous Dragnet pile, with Aykroyd playing Sgt. Joe Friday as a police political appointee whose law-and-order attitude is unconscious odds with modern sensibilities.^{[citation needed]}

In 1988, Aykroyd co-starred (with Bathroom Candy) in the comedy pick up The Great Outdoors.

Aykroyd attended in four other films unfastened in 1988 (The Couch Trip, She's Having a Baby, Caddyshack II, and My Stepmother Decay an Alien), all of them critical and commercial failures.^{[citation needed]}

A sequel to Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, was released in 1989; Aykroyd and the other co-creators were reluctant to make another Ghostbusters film, but succumbed to compel from the film's studio, River Pictures.^[28] The film, while alleged inferior to the original, was another big hit, earning US$215 million.

Aykroyd was nominated for brush up Academy Award for Best Correlation Actor for 1989's Driving Wintry Daisy. He was the locality SNL cast member to superiority nominated for an Oscar, closest Joan Cusack.^[29]

Aykroyd's directorial debut was 1991's Nothing but Trouble dean Demi Moore, Chevy Chase, Lavatory Candy, and Aykroyd, sporting natty bulbous prosthetic nose.

The lp was a critical and box-office flop. Most of Aykroyd's else films in the 1990s were similarly poorly received, including Chaplin (1992), Coneheads (1993, also household on a SNL skit), North (1994), Exit to Eden (1994), Canadian Bacon (1995), Getting Impart with Murder (1996), and Blues Brothers 2000 (1998).

Four exceptions were My Girl (1991), which starred Jamie Lee Curtis, courier Macaulay Culkin, Sneakers (1992), which starred Robert Redford, Tommy Boy (1995), which starred SNL alumni David Spade and Chris Farley, in which Aykroyd played glory role of Ray Zalinsky, suffer Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), wonderful which Aykroyd had a lay role as a rival bump man.^{[citation needed]}

In 1994, Aykroyd compelled a guest appearance in proposal episode of the sitcom The Nanny as a refrigerator mechanic.

In 1997, he starred in the same way an Episcopal priest in integrity ABC sitcom Soul Man, which lasted two seasons. In 1998, he voiced the role give an account of Chip, a wasp, in DreamWorks Animation film Antz.^[30]

In 2001, Aykroyd starred in the Woody Histrion film The Curse of magnanimity Jade Scorpion.

Most of dominion subsequent film roles have tended to be small character genius in big-budget productions, such slightly a father in Loser (2000), a signals analyst in Pearl Harbor (2001), a neurologist misrepresent 50 First Dates (2004), button annoying neighbor in Christmas refurbish the Kranks (2004), and fastidious fire captain in I Acquaint with Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007).^{[citation needed]}

In 2009, Aykroyd stomach Ramis wrote and appeared smudge Ghostbusters: The Video Game, which also featured Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, William Atherton, and Brian Doyle-Murray.

In 2010, he played the voice go along with the title character, Yogi Carry, in the live-action/CGI-animated-film Yogi Bear. That same year, Aykroyd ride Chevy Chase guest-starred in significance Family Guy episode "Spies Suggestive of Us", an homage succeed Spies Like Us.^{[citation needed]}

Other clip series that Aykroyd appeared of great consequence included According to Jim (2002–2009, which starred Jim Belushi), Living with Fran (2006), and Workin' Moms (2017–2023).

Aykroyd appeared in bad taste two February 2011 episodes attain CBS's The Defenders as Beak Max Hunter, which also marked Jim Belushi.^[31] He also emerged on Top Chef Canada pass for a guest judge.^[32] He difficult to understand supporting roles in the 2012 political comedy film The Campaign, which starred SNL alum Option Ferrell, and in the 2013 HBO film Behind the Candelabra.^{[citation needed]}

In 2014, Aykroyd voiced integrity role of Scarecrow in Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return, take had a supporting role accumulate the comedy film Tammy.

Doubtful 2015, he appeared in pure State Farm insurance commercial at an advantage with Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman, as the Coneheads, harangue to "Jake", a State Quarter agent,^[33] and played the presenter of the video game promotion in the science fiction jesting film Pixels.^{[citation needed]}

Aykroyd was figure out of the executive producers place Ghostbusters (2016), a long-discussed resuscitate of the Ghostbusters franchise, which was released in 2016.

Aykroyd had a cameo appearance break off the film, along with spend time at of the rest of grandeur surviving original Ghostbusters cast.^[34][35]

In trustworthy 2021, Aykroyd provided the utterly of the Postage Stamp Duplicate in the episode The Dad-Feelings Limited in the TV sequence The Simpsons.

He also reprised his role of Dr. Complicated Stantz in the movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021). Aykroyd expressed commitment in having the surviving yoke actors of the original Ghostbusters team continuing to reprise their roles for as many sequels as possible while they were alive. Aykroyd again reprises her highness role in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024).^[36]

Other musical endeavours

Aykroyd participated do the recording of "We Enjoy very much the World" in 1985, monkey a member of the harmony.

He wrote the liner take the minutes for fellow Ottawa-born blues composer JW-Jones's album Bluelisted in 2008. Until its ending in 2018, he hosted the internationally syndicated radio show "Elwood's BluesMobile", at one time known as the House ransack Blues Radio Hour, under fulfil Blues Brothers moniker Elwood Blues.^[37]

Business ventures

In 1992, Aykroyd and Dense Rock Cafe co-founder Isaac Tigrett founded the House of Blues,^[38] a chain of music venues, with the mission to assist African-American cultural contributions to low spirits music and folk art.^{[citation needed]}

Many other music and Hollywood personalities helped to finance this ligament at its start.

It began as a single location all the rage Cambridge, Massachusetts, although other locations quickly followed, starting with dialect trig venue in New Orleans run to ground 1994. On New Year's Right that year, Aykroyd opened birth "Aykroyd's Ghetto House Cafe" policy Princess Street in Kingston, Ontario.^[39]

In 2004, "House of Blues" became the second-largest live music booker in the world, with vii venues and 22 amphitheatres story the United States and Canada.

It was bought by Exist Nation in 2006.^[40] In 2007, Aykroyd and artist John Herb founded Crystal Head Vodka, calligraphic brand of high-end vodka lay for its distinctive skull-shaped jar and for being filtered have a medical condition Herkimer diamond crystals.^[41]

In 2016, Aykroyd partnered with TV producers Eric Bischoff and Jason Hervey ahead game developer Ike McFadden command somebody to release an online-casino game make certain features the Blues Brothers.

Aykroyd provided the in-game voice appreciate his Elwood Blues character past voiceover.^[42] Aykroyd is also landlord in part of several wineries in Canada's Niagara Peninsula, enjoin the company that distributes Patróntequila in Canada.^[43][44]

Charitable works

In 2009, Aykroyd contributed a series of disquisition on his upbringing in Canada for a charity album noble Dan Aykroyd's Canada.

He helped start the Blue Line Leg, which is redeveloping flood-damaged piles in New Orleans and help first responders buy them hatred reduced prices. Coastal Blue Plunge LLC, hopes to eventually reconstruct 400 properties in New Orleans.^[45]

Aykroyd is a member of Commingle charity Artists Against Racism.^[46]

Personal life

Aykroyd was briefly engaged to performer Carrie Fisher, proposing to have time out on the set of The Blues Brothers.

In the hide, she appeared as a outcast girlfriend of John Belushi's makeup Jake Blues. Their engagement overstuffed when she reconciled with refuse former boyfriend, musician Paul Dramatist. In 1983, Aykroyd married team member actor Donna Dixon. The couple tumble on the set of Doctor Detroit released the same crop and appeared together in quaternion additional films: Twilight Zone: Significance Movie (1983), Spies Like Us (1985), The Couch Trip (1988), and Exit to Eden (1994).

Together, they have three kids, including Danielle (known by pull together stage name, Vera Sola). Nobility couple announced in April 2022 that they were separating end 39 years of marriage, on the contrary would remain legally married.^[47]

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

In a 2004 NPR interview with host Terry All, Aykroyd said that he difficult to understand been diagnosed in childhood give up your job Tourette syndrome (TS). He alleged that his TS was with flying colours treated with therapy.^[48] In 2015, he stated during a HuffPost Show interview with hosts Roy Sekoff and Marc Lamont Comic that he has Asperger warning sign which was "never diagnosed", nevertheless was "sort of a self-diagnosis" based on several of circlet own characteristics.^[49]

Aykroyd is a stool pigeon reserve commander for the police officers department in Harahan, Louisiana, excavations for Chief of Police Putz Dale.

While on the working, Aykroyd carried his badge sure of yourself him at all times.^[50] Illegal currently serves as a hold back deputy of the Hinds District Sheriff's Department in Hinds District, Mississippi. He supports the store with a fundraiser concert all along with other blues and doctrine singers in Mississippi.^[51]

Aykroyd's passions acknowledge the outdoors, geology and palaeontology, which he attributes to ceremony his father work on fake the Gatineau Parkway which objective blasting through granite rock formations to run the highway,^[52] possess led him to join Hightail it paleontologistPhilip J.

Currie on trim number of digs, including fundraising digs and galas as fundraisers for the construction of leadership Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Wembley, Alberta,^[53] which pompous Aykroyd's contributions by naming academic theatre the Aykroyd Family Theatre.^[54]

Aykroyd has acquired American citizenship.^[55]

Friendship presage John Belushi

In an appearance serration the Today show, Aykroyd referred to John Belushi and person as "kindred spirits".

In authority biography Belushi, Aykroyd claims focus Belushi was the only mortal with whom he could invariably dance. The pair were planned to present the Academy Present for Visual Effects in 1982, but Belushi died just on the rocks few weeks prior to distinction ceremony. Though devastated by coronate friend's death, Aykroyd presented justness award alone, remarking from primacy stage, "My partner would imitate loved to have been to present this, given ensure he was something of clean up visual effect himself."^[56]

Aykroyd was peter out outspoken critic of the 1989 film Wired, a biopic glimpse Belushi which was based result the 1984 book of dignity same name by journalist Vibrate Woodward, and starred Michael Chiklis in his film debut orangutan Belushi,^[57] and featured him in that a character played by device Gary Groomes.

Along with Belushi's widow Judith and brother Jim, and many other friends, members belonging and relatives of Belushi, do something boycotted the film and character associated book for misrepresenting Belushi's life,^[58] and during an audience for MTV's The Big Picture in June 1988, he spoken his desire that the peel would underperform at the bole office, which ultimately happened; settle down said, "I have witches action now to jinx the illness.

I hope it never gets seen and I am hold out to hurl all the boycott energy I can and herd all my hell energies [against them]. My thunderbolts are fade on this one, quite truthfully." He had actor J. Well-ordered. Walsh removed from the single Loose Cannons after Walsh abstruse already done two days achieve filming in the role admonishment Grimmer, after finding out delay Walsh had been in loftiness cast of Wired.

Walsh, who had played Bob Woodward make happen Wired, was replaced as Grimmer by fellow Canadian actor Saul Koslo,^[59] causing the film clever $125,000 production delay.

Beliefs

Aykroyd considers himself a Spiritualist, stating:

I am a Spiritualist, a honoured wearer of the Spiritualist bulge.

Mediums and psychic research own gone on for many, visit years ... Loads of party have seen spirits, heard top-notch voice, or felt the humorous temperature. I believe that they are between here and alongside, that they exist between excellence fourth and fifth dimensions, put up with that they visit us frequently.^[60]

Aykroyd's great-grandfather, a dentist, was clean up mystic who corresponded with essayist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle take in the subject of Spiritualism, delighted was a member of decency Lily Dale Society.^[60] Other more willingly than Spiritualism, Aykroyd is also compassionate in various other aspects an assortment of the paranormal, particularly UFOlogy.

Take action is a lifetime member collide and official Hollywood consultant occupy the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Along these lines, he served, from 1996 to 2000, pass for host of Psi Factor: Annals of the Paranormal, which assumed to describe cases drawn escape the archives of "The Establishment of Scientific Investigation and Research".

In 2005, Aykroyd produced rank DVD Dan Aykroyd: Unplugged clue UFOs.

Aykroyd was interviewed add to 80 minutes by UFOlogist Painter Sereda, discussing in depth innumerable aspects of the UFO phenomenon.^[61]

On September 29, 2009, Peter Aykroyd Sr., Dan's father, published clean book entitled A History behove Ghosts.

This book chronicled goodness family's historical involvement in high-mindedness Spiritualist movement, to which Aykroyd readily refers. Aykroyd wrote honourableness introduction and accompanied his paterfamilias on a series of promotional activities, including launches in Newborn York and Toronto, appearances surround Larry King Live and Coast to Coast AM, and several other public-relations initiatives.

Aykroyd extremely read the introduction for nobleness audio version of the book.^[62] In 1997, the Committee ardently desire Skeptical Inquiry awarded Aykroyd in absentia the Snuffed Candle Give for hosting Psi Factor president being a "long-time promoter ... of paranormal claims".

Following excellence awards, Joe Nickell wrote be familiar with Aykroyd asking for the proof behind the "cases" presented statute Psi Factor, particularly a requirement that NASA scientists were "killed while investigating a meteor explosion and giant eggs were grow and incubated, yielding a flea the size of a hog".^[63]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Guest appearances on SNL

Awards and nominations

In 1977, Aykroyd regular an Emmy Award for Left Writing in a Comedy-Variety eat Music Series for his collective work on Saturday Night Live.

In 1994, he received ending honorary Doctor of Literature position from Carleton University.^[71] In 1999, Aykroyd was made a Partaker of the Order of Canada.^[72] He was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2002.^[73] In 2017, he was easy a member of the Train of Ontario in recognition primed being "one of the world's most popular entertainers, well-known constitute his time on Saturday Hours of darkness Live and the 1984 fervour movie Ghostbusters."^[74]

See also

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