Dan Aykroyd

Highest Rated: 100% All You Need Is Cash (1978)
Lowest Rated: 0% Getting Away with Murder (1996)
Birthday: Jul 1, 1952
Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada

One of the most vibrant comic personalities of the 1970s and '80s, as well as a noted actor and screenwriter, Dan Aykroyd got his professional start in his native Canada. Before working as a standup comedian in various Canadian nightclubs, Aykroyd studied at a Catholic seminary from which he was later expelled. He then worked as a train brakeman, a surveyor, and studied Sociology at Carleton University in Ottawa, where he began writing and performing comedy sketches. His success as a comic in school led him to work with the Toronto branch of the famed Second City improvisational troupe. During this time -- while he was also managing the hot nightspot Club 505 on the side -- Aykroyd met comedian and writer John Belushi, who had come to Toronto to scout new talent for "The National Lampoon Radio Hour." In 1975, both Aykroyd and Belushi were chosen to appear in the first season of Canadian producer Lorne Michaels' innovative comedy television series Saturday Night Live. It was as part of the show that Aykroyd gained notoriety for his dead-on impersonations of presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter. He also won fame for his other characters, such as Beldar, the patriarch of the Conehead clan of suburban aliens, and Elwood, the second half of the Blues Brothers (Jake Blues was played by Belushi). Aykroyd made his feature-film debut in 1977 in the Canadian comedy Love at First Sight, but neither it nor his subsequent film, Mr. Mike's Mondo Video, were successful. His first major Hollywood screen venture was as a co-lead in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979). But Aykroyd still did not earn much recognition until 1980, when he and Belushi reprised their popular SNL characters in The Blues Brothers, a terrifically successful venture that managed to become both one of the most often-quoted films of the decade and a true cult classic. Aykroyd and Belushi went on to team up one more time for Neighbors (1981) before Belushi's death in 1982. Aykroyd's subsequent films in the '80s ranged from the forgettable to the wildly successful, with all-out comedies such as Ghostbusters (1984) and Dragnet (1987) falling into the latter category. Many of these films allowed him to collaborate with some of Hollywood's foremost comedians, including fellow SNL alumni Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Eddie Murphy, as well as Tom Hanks and the late John Candy. In such pairings, Aykroyd usually played the straight man -- typically an uptight intellectual or a latent psycho. He tried his hand at drama in 1989 as Jessica Tandy's son in Driving Miss Daisy and received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. During the '90s, Aykroyd's career faltered just a bit as he appeared in one disappointment after another. Despite scattered successes like My Girl (1991), Chaplin (1992), Casper (1995), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), and Antz (1998), the all-out flops -- The Coneheads (1993), Exit to Eden (1994), Sgt. Bilko (1996) -- were plentiful. Likewise, the long-awaited Blues Brothers sequel, Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), proved a great disappointment. Aykroyd, however, continued to maintain a screen profile, starring as Kirk Douglas' son in the family drama Diamonds in 1999. During the next few years, he found greater success in supporting roles, with turns as a shifty businessman in the period drama The House of Mirth (2000), Woody Allen's boss in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), pop star Britney Spears' father in her screen debut, Crossroads (2002), and (in a particularly amusing turn) as Dr. Keats in the Adam Sandler/Drew Barrymore comedy 50 First Dates. Aykroyd also appeared in the 2005 Christmas with the Kranks, alongside Tim Allen and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry with Adam Sandler in 2006. He also provided the voice of Yogi Bear in the big screen adaptation of the titular cartoon -- but none of these projects did particularly well with fans. Aykroyd soon planned to revive the smashing success of the Ghostbusters franchise, collaborating with Harold Ram

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Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	Defend, Conserve, Protect	Narrator	—	2019
78%	Good Fortune	Actor	—	2017
74%	Ghostbusters	Executive Producer Cabbie	$128.4M	2016
No Score Yet	Ghostheads	Actor	—	2016
71%	I Am Chris Farley	Actor	—	2015
16%	Pixels	1982 Championship MC	$66.5M	2015
52%	Live From New York!	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	Untitled John Belushi Project	Executive Producer	—	2015
79%	Get On Up	Ben Bart	$22.9M	2014
24%	Tammy	Don	$51.1M	2014
16%	Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return	Scarecrow	$6.5M	2014
95%	Behind the Candelabra	Actor	$1.7M	2013
No Score Yet	Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot	Actor	—	2013
66%	The Campaign	Wade Motch	$86.9M	2012
No Score Yet	Sunset Strip	Actor	—	2012
13%	Yogi Bear	Yogi Bear	$100.2M	2010
No Score Yet	Unbeaten 28	Actor	—	2010
No Score Yet	Unbeaten	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Monty Python Almost the Truth Obligatory Making of Special	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash '08	Actor	—	2008
30%	War, Inc.	Mr. Vice President	$0.6M	2008
14%	I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry	Captain Tucker	$119.8M	2007
No Score Yet	Shortcut to Happiness (The Devil and Daniel Webster)	Julius Jenson	—	2007
No Score Yet	Let's All Hate Toronto	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	Intern Academy	Dr. Cyrill Kipp	—	2006
No Score Yet	Comedy Gold: The Hilarious Story of Canadian Comedy	Actor	—	2006
No Score Yet	Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Ronnie Hawkins: Still Alive and Kickin'	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	James Brown: Soul Survivor	Actor	—	2004
5%	Christmas With the Kranks	Vic Frohmeyer	$73.8M	2004
65%	Bright Young Things	Lord Monomark	$0.9M	2004
45%	50 First Dates	Dr. Keats	$120.8M	2004
No Score Yet	Evidence: The Case for NASA UFOs	Actor	—	2002
14%	Crossroads	Pete	$37.1M	2002
14%	Unconditional Love	Max Beasley	—	2002
No Score Yet	Earth vs. the Spider	Det. Insp. Jack Grillo	—	2002
No Score Yet	On The Nose	Dr. Davis	—	2001
46%	The Curse of the Jade Scorpion	Chris	$6.8M	2001
43%	Evolution	Gov. Lewis	$37.6M	2001
24%	Pearl Harbor	Capt. Thurman	$197.8M	2001
81%	The House of Mirth	Gus Trenor	—	2000
43%	Stardom	Barry Levine	—	2000
24%	Loser	Mr. Tannek	—	2000
No Score Yet	Susan's Plan	Bob	—	2000
26%	Diamonds	Lance	—	1999
No Score Yet	Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin	Actor	—	1999
93%	Antz	Chip	—	1998
46%	Blues Brothers 2000	Producer Screenwriter Elwood Blues	—	1997
80%	Grosse Pointe Blank	Mr. Grocer	—	1997
No Score Yet	The Arrow	Actor	—	1997
48%	My Fellow Americans	William Haney	—	1996
14%	Feeling Minnesota	Ben	—	1996
27%	My Girl 2	Harry Sultenfuss	—	1996
9%	Celtic Pride	Jimmy Flaherty	—	1996
0%	Getting Away with Murder	Prof. Jack Lambert	—	1996
31%	Sgt. Bilko	Col. Hall	—	1996
14%	Canadian Bacon	Highway Patrolman (uncredited)	—	1995
46%	Casper	Doctor Raymond Stantz (uncredited)	—	1995
42%	Tommy Boy	Zalinsky	—	1995
No Score Yet	Random Factor	Dexter	—	1995
6%	Exit to Eden	Fred	—	1994
14%	North	Pa Tex	—	1994
No Score Yet	Saturday Night Live - Best of the Coneheads	Actor	—	1994
35%	Coneheads	Screenwriter Beldar	—	1993
No Score Yet	The Best of the Blues Brothers	Actor	—	1993
60%	Chaplin	Mack Sennett	—	1992
78%	Sneakers	Mother	—	1992
38%	This Is My Life	Arnold Moss	—	1992
56%	My Girl	Harry Sultenfuss	—	1991
5%	Nothing but Trouble	Judge Alvin 'J.P' Valkenheiser/Bobo Screenwriter Director	—	1991
No Score Yet	Masters of Menace	Johnny Lewis	—	1990
0%	Loose Cannons	Ellis Fielding	—	1990
53%	Ghostbusters 2	Dr. Raymond Stantz Screenwriter	—	1989
82%	Driving Miss Daisy	Producer Boolie Werthan	—	1989
19%	My Stepmother Is an Alien	Dr. Steven Mills	—	1988
4%	Caddyshack II	Capt. Tom Everett	—	1988
40%	The Great Outdoors	Roman Craig	—	1988
40%	She's Having a Baby	Actor	—	1988
38%	The Couch Trip	John W. Burns, Jr.	—	1988
No Score Yet	Will Rogers: Look Back in Laughter	Actor	—	1988
50%	Dragnet	Friday Screenwriter	—	1987
No Score Yet	One More Saturday Night	Executive Producer Producer	—	1986
32%	Spies Like Us	Screenwriter Austin Millbarge	—	1985
38%	Into the Night	Herb	—	1985
No Score Yet	Nothing Lasts Forever	Buck	—	1984
97%	Ghostbusters (1984 Original)	Dr. Raymond Stantz Screenwriter	—	1984
85%	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Weber	—	1984
58%	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Passenger	—	1983
86%	Trading Places	Louis Winthorpe III	—	1983
33%	Doctor Detroit	Clifford Skridlow Screenwriter	—	1983
No Score Yet	It Came from Hollywood	Actor	—	1982
63%	Neighbors	Vic	—	1981
84%	The Blues Brothers	Elwood Blues Screenwriter	—	1980
39%	1941	Sgt. Frank Tree	—	1979
No Score Yet	Mr. Mike's Mondo Video	Actor	—	1979
No Score Yet	Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland	Actor	—	1978
100%	All You Need Is Cash	Brian Thigh	—	1978
No Score Yet	Love at First Sight (Love is Blind)	Roy	—	1977
No Score Yet	Gift of Winter	Actor	—	1974

TV

Rating	Title	Credit	Year
93%	The Conners 2018		2019
No Score Yet	The Big Interview With Dan Rather 2013	Guest	2018
No Score Yet	Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	Jay Leno's Garage 2015	Appearing	2016 2015
No Score Yet	Inside Comedy 2012-2015	Guest	2015
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014	Guest	2014
No Score Yet	Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 2009-2014	Guest	2013 2010
50%	Happily Divorced 2011-2013		2012 2011
No Score Yet	Born to Explore 2011-2016	Appearing	2011
74%	The Defenders 2010-2011	Judge Max Hunter	2011
71%	Family Guy 1999	Voice	2009
No Score Yet	According to Jim 2001-2009	Danny Danny Michalski	2009 2004 2003 2002
No Score Yet	The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 1992-2014	Performer	2003
No Score Yet	Saturday Night Live 1975	Performer Guest Host	2003 1998 1995 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975
No Score Yet	Soul Man 1997-1998	Mike Weber	1998 1997
No Score Yet	Home Improvement 1991-1999	Father Mike	1997
82%	Tales from the Crypt 1989-1996	Guest	1992 1991

QUOTES FROM Dan Aykroyd CHARACTERS

Friday: Look out, Muppets.

Mr. Vice President: The first was ever to be outsourced to private enterprise.

Scarecrow: With all of Oz at risk, I need you two to stand guard.

Scarecrow: Hiya, kiddo! An evil Jester is threatening us, and you are the only one who can help us!

Scarecrow: Scarecrow to Dorothy! Come in, Dorothy!

Miss Daisy Werthan: I've never been prejudiced in my life and you know it.
Boolie Werthan: (talking about the Martin Luther King dinner) Okay, then why don't you ask Hoke to go with you?
Boolie Werthan: Okay, then why don't you ask Hoke to go with you?
Miss Daisy Werthan: Hoke? Don't be ridiculous. He wouldn't go.

Boolie Werthan: How are you, Idella?
Idella: Livin'.
Boolie Werthan: Where's the vacuum cleaner I brought over here?
Idella: In the closet.
Boolie Werthan: (turning to Hoke) She won't touch it.
Boolie Werthan: She won't touch it.
Idella: I would if it didn't give me a shock every time I come near it!
Boolie Werthan: It works for me!
Idella: Fine... you clean and I'll go down and run your office!

Boolie Werthan: You're a doodle, Mama.

Boolie Werthan: Don't worry, Katie Bell, it's not QUITE the end of the world.
Boolie Werthan: Don't worry, Katie Bell, it's not quite the end of the world.

Billy Ray Valentine: That's my Harvard tie! Like, oh sure, he went to Harvard!
Louis Winthorpe III: That's my Harvard tie! Like, oh sure, he went to Harvard!

Miss Daisy Werthan: (looking at her watch) It's seven sixteen
Miss Daisy Werthan: It's seven sixteen.
Boolie Werthan: You should have a job on the radio announcin' on time.

Elwood: Illinois Nazis
Joliet Jake: I hate Illinois Nazis!

Sgt. Joe Friday: Just the facts ma'am.

Elwood: It wasn't lies, it was just billshit
Elwood: It wasn't lies, it was just billshit.
Elwood: Wasn't lies, it was just... bullshit.

Zalinsky: What the American public doesn't know, is what makes it the American public.
Zalinsky: What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public, alright?

Yogi Bear: Check the safety manual!!
Yogi Bear: Check the safety manual!
Boo-Boo: It's just a picture of us screaming!!
Boo-Boo: It's just a picture of us screaming!

Elwood: There's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark out, and we're wearing sunglasses.
Joliet Jake: Hit it!

Elwood: That's just great Elwood, the day I get out of prison, my own brother picks me up in a police car.

Ranger Smith: Boo Boo, I don't think we need the narration.
Yogi Bear: But I like were you were going with it, Boo Boo!

Beldar Conehead: [Furious to be kept waiting over his car repair] What choice do I have? It is as if you have grabbed me by the base of my snarglies!
Beldar Conehead: [furious to be kept waiting over his car repair] What choice do I have? It is as if you have grabbed me by the base of my snarglies!

Joliet Jake: How often does the train run by here?
Elwood: So often, you won't even notice.

Joliet Jake: We need this gig!
Elwood: Were on a mission from God.

Elwood: What kind of music do you usually have here?
Cocktail Waitress: Oh, we got both kinds. We got Country AND Western!

Raymond Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: [to the Ghostbusters] Is this true?
Peter Venkman: Yes, it's true: this man has no dick.

Mrs. Tarantino: Are you police?
Elwood: No mam, we're musicians.

Raymond Stantz: Looks like a giant Jell-O mold.....
Winston Zeddmore: I hate Jell-O.
Peter Venkman: Oh come on, there's always room for Jell-O!

Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
Peter Venkman: Why?
Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Peter Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
Egon Spengler: Try to image all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Raymond Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Peter Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. Alright, important safety tip. Thanks Egon.

Raymond Stantz: You know, it's just occurred to meâ?¦we really haven't had a completely successful test of this equipment.
Raymond Stantz: You know, it's just occurred to me we really haven't had a completely successful test of this equipment.
Egon Spengler: I blame myself.
Peter Venkman: So do I.
Raymond Stantz: No sense in worrying about it now.
Peter Venkman: Why worry? Each of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.

Raymond Stantz: Symmetrical book stacking...just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947.
Raymond Stantz: Symmetrical book stacking... just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947.
Peter Venkman: You're right. No human being would stack books like this.

Gozer: [after Ray orders her to re-locate] Are you a God? [Ray looks at Peter and he nods]
Raymond Stantz: .......No.
Raymond Stantz: No.
Gozer: Then... DIE! [Lightning flies from her fingers, driving the Ghostbusters to the edge of the roof and almost off; people below scream]
Gozer: Then... DIE! [lightning flies from her fingers, driving the Ghostbusters to the edge of the roof and almost off; people below scream]
Winston Zeddmore: Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "YES"!
Winston Zeddmore: Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say 'YES'!
Peter Venkman: All right! This chick is TOAST!

Yogi Bear: Picanic baskets may be delicious on the lips, but they're a lifetime on the hips!

Zalinsky: Went a little heavy on the pine tree perfume there, kid?
Tommy Callahan III: Sir, it's an taxicab air freshener.
Zalinsky: Good, you've pinpointed it. Step two is washing it out.

Elwood: You promised you'd visit the penguin the day you got out of prison.
Joliet Jake: Yeah... so I lied to her.
Elwood: You can't lie to a nun, Jake. We're gonna go in, and see the penguin.
Joliet Jake: No. Fucking. Way.

Raymond Stantz: You never even had a Slinky?
Egon Spengler: We had part of a Slinky, but i straightened it.

Louis Tully/The Key Master: Who are you guys?
Raymond Stantz: We're the Ghostbusters.
Louis Tully/The Key Master: Who does your taxes?

Raymond Stantz: It's the Stay Puft Marshmallow man.

Gozer: Are you a God?
Raymond Stantz: No.
Gozer: Then Die! [Attacks Ghostbusters]
Gozer: Then Die! [attacks Ghostbusters]
Winston Zeddmore: Ray, if someone asks you if your a God you say "Yes"!
Winston Zeddmore: Ray, if someone asks you if your a God you say 'yes'!

Raymond Stantz: Ok i'm opening the trap, don't look directly at the trap!
Egon Spengler: I looked at the trap Ray!

Peter Venkman: Come in Ray
Raymond Stantz: Venkman, i saw it, i saw it, i saw it!
Raymond Stantz: Venkman, I saw it, I saw it, I saw it!
Peter Venkman: It's right here Ray, it's looking at me.
Raymond Stantz: It's an ugly little spud isn't it.
Peter Venkman: I think it can hear you Ray.
Raymond Stantz: Don't move, it won't hurt you if you-
Peter Venkman: AAHH!
Peter Venkman: AHH!
Raymond Stantz: Venkman, Venkman, Venkman what happend are you ok?!
Peter Venkman: He slimed me.

Raymond Stantz: I think we better split-up.
Egon Spengler: Ya, good idea.
Peter Venkman: Ya we can do more damage that way.

Man at Elevator: What are you suppost to be some kind of Cosmonaut?
Peter Venkman: No we're exterminators, somebody saw a cockroach up on twelve.
Man at Elevator: That's gotta be some cockroach.
Peter Venkman: Bite your head off man.
Raymond Stantz: [Elevator arrives] Going up?
Raymond Stantz: [elevator arrives] Going up?
Man at Elevator: I'll take the next one.

Raymond Stantz: Listen! [pause] you smell something?
Raymond Stantz: Listen... do you smell something?

Elwood: Illinois Nazis
Elwood: Illinois Nazis.
Joliet Jake: I hate Illinois Nazis
Joliet Jake: I hate Illinois Nazis.

Elwood: Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now.

Raymond Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddmore: The dead rising from the grave!
Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

Raymond Stantz: Powergrid was shut off by dickless here.
Raymond Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by dickless here.
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
Mayor: Is this true?
Mayor: Is this true?
Peter Venkman: Yes, it's true. This man has no dick.
Peter Venkman: Yes it's true. [pause] This man has no dick.

Yogi Bear: I'm so smart and it hurts.

John Burns: What are those?
Donald Becker: Swans.
John Burns: Are they dangerous?

Mr. Grocer: bang bang bang bang popcorn!
Mr. Grocer: Hey, hey, bing bing bing bing bang! POPCORN!

Yogi Bear: Do you think he noticed the pie
Yogi Bear: I wonder if he noticed the pie.

Elwood: We're on a mission from God.

Man at Elevator: What are you supposed to be some kind of cosmonaut?
Raymond Stantz: Somebody saw a cockroach up on twelve.
Man at Elevator: That must be some cockroach.
Peter Venkman: Bite your head off man.

Yogi Bear: What the heck was that?

Elwood: There are 106 miles to Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
Elwood: There are 106 miles to Chicago. We have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

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