Dan Aykroyd
Highest Rated: 100% Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019)
Lowest Rated: 0% Getting Away With Murder (1996)
Birthday: Jul 01, 1952
Birthplace: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Arguably the most formidable talent to emerge from the original ensemble of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" (NBC, 1975- ), Canadian Dan Aykroyd enjoyed sustained success as a writer, actor and director, decades after his crucial role establishing the groundbreaking late night comedy show. He was beloved for his classic characterizations of white toast-eating Elwood Blues in "The Blues Brothers" (1980), humbled stock trader Louis Winthorpe III in "Trading Places" (1983), and enthusiastic parapsychologist Ray Stantz in "Ghostbusters" (1984), as well as remaining a fixture in American cinema - sometimes taking heat for a misstep in judgment ("Exit to Eden," 1994); other times surprising by taking home an Academy Award nomination ("Driving Miss Daisy," 1989). While continuing to work with younger comedy superstars such as Adam Sandler and Melissa McCarthy, the tireless actor, writer, and musician also evolved into a successful businessman, known the world round for his partnership in the "House of Blues" chain of nightclubs and the founding of his own Canadian winery. But it was his eccentric run on "SNL" during its golden first years - as well as his formidable onscreen partnership with real-life best friend, John Belushi - that would remain perhaps his greatest comedic legacy.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ghostbusters: Afterlife |
Dr. Raymond Stantz (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2021 |
| 90% | 77% | Belushi | Self | - | 2020 |
| 100% | 100% | Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters | Unknown (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Defend, Conserve, Protect | Narrator | - | 2019 |
| 73% | 50% | Ghostbusters |
Cabbie (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2016 |
| 78% | 96% | Good Fortune | Self | - | 2016 |
| 52% | 63% | Live From New York! | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 16% | 68% | Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return | Scarecrow (Voice) | $8.5M | 2014 |
| 80% | 68% | Get On Up | Ben Bart (Character) | $30.5M | 2014 |
| 24% | 36% | Tammy | Don (Character) | $84.5M | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Game Changer | Detective Spencer (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 95% | 71% | Behind the Candelabra | Seymour Heller (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 66% | 51% | The Campaign | Wade Motch (Character) | $86.9M | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Art Car: The Movie | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Unbeaten | Narrator | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flip, Flop, and Fly, 40 Years of the Downchild Blues Band | Unknown (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 12% | 34% | Yogi Bear | Yogi (Voice) | $100.2M | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | Monty Python Almost the Truth Obligatory Making of Special | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 28% | 38% | War, Inc. | Mr. Vice President (Character) | $578.5K | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | Let's All Hate Toronto | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Shortcut to Happiness | Julius Johnson (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 15% | 69% | I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry | Capt. Tucker (Character) | $119.7M | 2007 |
| 45% | 65% | 50 First Dates | Dr. Keats (Character) | $120.8M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Intern Academy | Dr. Cyrill Kipp (Character) | - | 2004 |
| 5% | 38% | Christmas With the Kranks | Vic Frohmeyer (Character) | $73.7M | 2004 |
| 65% | 67% | Bright Young Things | Lord Monomark (Character) | $931.8K | 2003 |
| 14% | 40% | Crossroads | Pete (Character) | $37.2M | 2002 |
| 14% | 68% | Unconditional Love | Max Beasley (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 24% | 66% | Pearl Harbor | Captain Thurman (Character) | $198.5M | 2001 |
| 46% | 53% | The Curse of the Jade Scorpion | Chris Magruder (Character) | $7.5M | 2001 |
| 43% | 47% | Evolution | Governor Lewis (Character) | $38.3M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Earth vs. the Spider | Det. Insp. Jack Grillo (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | On the Nose | Dr. Barry Davis (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 82% | 73% | The House of Mirth | Gus Trenor (Character) | $3M | 2000 |
| 43% | 42% | Stardom | Barry Levine (Character) | $10.6K | 2000 |
| 24% | 35% | Loser | Dad (Character) | $15.5M | 2000 |
| 26% | 26% | Diamonds | Lance (Character) | $81.9K | 1999 |
| 46% | 37% | Blues Brothers 2000 |
Elwood Blues (Character), Writer, Producer |
$14M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Susan's Plan | Bob (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 92% | 52% | Antz | Chip (Voice) | $90.7M | 1998 |
| 80% | 87% | Grosse Pointe Blank | Grocer (Character) | $28.1M | 1997 |
| 9% | 31% | Celtic Pride | Jimmy Flaherty (Character) | $9.2M | 1996 |
| 0% | 19% | Getting Away With Murder | Jack Lambert (Character) | $127.7K | 1996 |
| 14% | 27% | Feeling Minnesota | Ben Costikyan (Character) | $3.1M | 1996 |
| 31% | 47% | Sgt. Bilko | Col. John T. Hall (Character) | $30.1M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rainbow | Sheriff Wyatt Hampton (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 47% | 64% | My Fellow Americans | President William Haney (Character) | $22.3M | 1996 |
| 42% | 90% | Tommy Boy | Ray Zalinsky (Character) | $30.7M | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Random Factor | Dexter (Voice) | - | 1995 |
| 14% | 27% | North | Pa Tex (Character) | $6.6M | 1994 |
| 6% | 25% | Exit to Eden | Fred Lavery (Character) | $6.8M | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | The Best of the Blues Brothers | Unknown (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 27% | 46% | My Girl 2 | Harry Sultenfuss (Character) | $16.7M | 1993 |
| 35% | 37% | Coneheads |
Beldar Conehead/ Screenwriter |
$20.2M | 1993 |
| 59% | 81% | Chaplin | Mack Sennett (Character) | $8.3M | 1992 |
| 79% | 80% | Sneakers | Mother (Character) | $50.6M | 1992 |
| 38% | 49% | This Is My Life | Arnold Moss (Character) | $2.8M | 1992 |
| 9% | 47% | Nothing but Trouble |
Judge Alvin "J.P" Valkenheiser/ Director |
$7.5M | 1991 |
| 53% | 77% | My Girl | Harry Sultenfuss (Character) | $60.2M | 1991 |
| 0% | 26% | Loose Cannons | Ellis Fielding (Character) | $4.5M | 1990 |
| 53% | 61% | Ghostbusters II |
Doctor Raymond Stantz (Character), Writer |
$110.4M | 1989 |
| 82% | 81% | Driving Miss Daisy | Boolie Werthan (Character) | $105.6M | 1989 |
| 4% | 18% | Caddyshack II | Capt. Tom Everett (Character) | $11.3M | 1988 |
| 44% | 70% | The Great Outdoors | Roman Craig (Character) | $37.3M | 1988 |
| 33% | 46% | The Couch Trip | John Burns (Character) | $9.9M | 1988 |
| 19% | 30% | My Stepmother Is an Alien | Steven Mills (Character) | $12.9M | 1988 |
| 51% | 41% | Dragnet |
Sgt. Joe Friday (Character), Screenwriter |
$56M | 1987 |
| 38% | 49% | Into the Night | Herb (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 32% | 56% | Spies Like Us |
Austin Millbarge (Character), Screenwriter |
$56.5M | 1985 |
| 97% | 88% | Ghostbusters |
Doctor Raymond Stantz (Character), Writer |
$298.2M | 1984 |
| 84% | 81% | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Weber (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Nothing Lasts Forever | Buck Heller (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 88% | 85% | Trading Places | Louis Winthorpe III (Character) | - | 1983 |
| 33% | 40% | Doctor Detroit |
Clifford Skridlow / |
- | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | It Came From Hollywood | Unknown (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 57% | 49% | Neighbors | Vic (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 73% | 92% | The Blues Brothers |
Elwood Blues (Character), Writer |
- | 1980 |
| 42% | 48% | 1941 | Sgt. Frank Tree (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Love at First Sight | Roy (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gift of Winter |
Goodly/ |
- | 1974 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Postage Stamp Fellow (Guest Voice) | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | 37% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel Paranormal | Narrator | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Born to Explore With Richard Wiese | Guest | 2020 2014 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Entertainment Tonight | Guest | 2019 |
| 93% | 42% | The Conners | Buddy (Guest Star) | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cityline | Guest | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Social | Guest | 2019 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sidelines | Guest | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Marilyn Denis Show | Guest | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Entertainment Tonight Canada | Guest | 2018 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The World Without Canada | Narrator | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 74% | Workin' Moms | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | etalk | Guest | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jay Leno's Garage | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2016 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Live! With Kelly and Michael | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Today | Guest | 2014 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 49% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Larry King Now | Guest | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Saturday Night Live |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star), Guest, Host |
2013 2009 2003 1998 1975-1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Happily Divorced | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| 74% | 73% | The Defenders | Judge Max Hunter (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mark at the Movies | Guest | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hollywood & Dine | Guest | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Family Guy | Himself (Guest Voice) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | According to Jim | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 2002-2004 |
| 0% | No Score Yet | Living With Fran | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal | Host | 1996-2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Soul Man | Rev. Mike Weber (Character) | 1997-1998 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Home Improvement | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | The Nanny | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994 |
| 82% | 98% | Tales From the Crypt | Unknown (Character) | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Carson | Guest | 1987 1985 |
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