Dan Aykroyd

Dan Aykroyd, born in Ottawa, initially pursued studies in psychology, criminal sociology, and political science at Carleton University, where his comedy journey took off. He co-wrote sketches for a private cable company, igniting his passion for acting. At 20, he joined The Second City comedy troupe in Chicago and Toronto, marking the start of his career. In 1975, Aykroyd joined "Saturday Night Live" as a founding member of the "Not Ready For Prime Time Players," crafting iconic sketches like "The Blues Brothers" with Belushi and "Two Wild and Crazy Guys" with Steve Martin. The success of "The Blues Brothers" sketch led to a full-length feature in 1980, with Aykroyd writing and producing the movie soundtrack, defying the disco and punk era. His versatile talent shines in roles like Dr. Ray Stantz in "Ghostbusters," Jessica Tandy’s son in "Driving Miss Daisy," a single father in "My Girl," and an assassin in "Grosse Pointe Blank," showcasing both comedic and dramatic prowess.

Known For: Acting

Born: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1952-07-01

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1977	Love at First Sight	Roy	35
2	1978	The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash	Brian Thigh	68
3	1979	Mr. Mike's Mondo Video	Church of Jack Lord Leader / Self	50
4	1979	1941	Sgt. Frank Tree	58
5	1980	The Blues Brothers	Elwood Blues	77
6	1981	Neighbors	Vic	57
7	1982	It Came from Hollywood	Himself	52
8	1983	Doctor Detroit	Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit	50
9	1983	Trading Places	Louis Winthorpe III	72
10	1984	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Art Weber	73
11	1984	Ghostbusters	Ray Stantz	75
12	1984	Nothing Lasts Forever	Buck Heller	63
13	1985	Into the Night	Herb	65
14	1985	Spies Like Us	Austin Millbarge	62
15	1987	Citizen Steve	Chial Dushane	59
16	1987	Dragnet	Sgt. Joe Friday	60
17	1988	The Couch Trip	John W. Burns, Jr.	55
18	1988	She's Having a Baby	Roman (uncredited)	59
19	1988	The Great Outdoors	Roman Craig	64
20	1988	Caddyshack II	Capt. Tom Everett	41
21	1988	My Stepmother Is an Alien	Steven Mills	57
22	1989	Ghostbusters II	Ray Stantz	66
23	1989	Driving Miss Daisy	Boolie Werthan	72
24	1990	Loose Cannons	Ellis Fielding	49
25	1990	Masters of Menace	Johnny Lewis	56
26	1991	Nothing but Trouble	Judge Alvin 'J.P' Valkenheiser / Bobo	52
27	1991	My Girl	Harry Sultenfuss	74
28	1992	This Is My Life	Arnold Moss	59
29	1992	Sneakers	Mother	69
30	1992	Chaplin	Mack Sennett	74
31	1993	Coneheads	Beldar	54
32	1994	My Girl 2	Harry Sultenfuss	60
33	1994	North	Pa Tex	50
34	1994	Exit to Eden	Fred Lavery	41
35	1995	Tommy Boy	Ray Zalinsky	68
36	1995	Casper	Dr. Raymond Stantz (uncredited)	63
37	1995	Canadian Bacon	OPP Officer (uncredited)	58
38	1996	Sgt. Bilko	COL John T. Hall	58
39	1996	Getting Away with Murder	Jack Lambert	46
40	1996	Celtic Pride	Jimmy Flaherty	53
41	1996	Feeling Minnesota	Det. Ben Costikyan	54
42	1996	My Fellow Americans	President William Haney	60
43	1997	Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow	Crawford Gordon	100
44	1997	Grosse Pointe Blank	Grocer	69
45	1998	Blues Brothers 2000	Elwood Blues	53
46	1998	Antz	Chip (voice)	62
47	1998	Susan's Plan	Bob	48
48	1999	Diamonds	Lance Agensky	53
49	2000	The House of Mirth	Augustus 'Gus' Trenor	62
50	2000	Stardom	Barry Levine	55
51	2001	Pearl Harbor	Captain Thurman	69
52	2001	Evolution	Governor Lewis	61
53	2001	The Curse of the Jade Scorpion	Chris Magruder	66
54	2001	Earth vs. the Spider	Det. Insp. Jack Grillo	55
55	2001	On the Nose	Dr. Barry Davis	55
56	2002	Crossroads	Pete Wagner	52
57	2003	Shortcut to Happiness	Julius Jenson	56
58	2003	Toronto Rocks	Self	80
59	2003	Bright Young Things	Lord Monomark	63
60	2004	50 First Dates	Dr. Keats	69
61	2004	Christmas with the Kranks	Vic Frohmeyer	61
62	2005	Dan Aykroyd Unplugged On UFOs	himself	48
63	2007	I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry	Captain Phineas J. Tucker	61
64	2008	War, Inc.	Mr. Vice President	55
65	2010	Yogi Bear	Yogi Bear (voice)	56
66	2012	The Campaign	Wade Motch	58
67	2013	Behind the Candelabra	Seymour Heller	66
68	2013	Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving	Rick Phillips	75
69	2014	Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return	Scarecrow (voice)	63
70	2021	Who Saw the Men in Black	self	60
71	2024	Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire	Ray Stantz	65
72		That's Amore!		0
73	1974	The Gift of Winter	Goodly / Rotten / Maple (voice)	50
74	1976	The Beach Boys: It's OK	Cop #1	80
75	1976	The Beach Boys: It's OK	Cop #1	10
76	1978	The Things We Did Last Summer	Self	40
77	1978	The Blues Brothers Live at Winterland	Elwood Blues	64
78	1978	Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland	Self	0
79	1981	Steve Martin's Best Show Ever	Yortuk Festrunk / Irwin Mainway / Alexander Haig / Dr. Treves	67
80	1982	E.T. and Friends: Magical Movie Visitors	Beldar Conehead	75
81	1983	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Passenger	65
82	1983	The Coneheads	Beldar (Voice)	49
83	1985	B.B. King: Into the Night	Self	82
84	1985	We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song	Self	85
85	1985	The Best of John Belushi	Various Characters	60
86	1989	Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary	Self	75
87	1990	Life of Python	Self	75
88	1990	The Earth Day Special	Vic's Buddy	69
89	1990	Seriously... Phil Collins	Self	0
90	1992	Two-Fisted Tales	Captain Miligan	50
91	1994	A Century of Cinema	Self	80
92	1994	The Best of the Blues Brothers	Elwood Blues / Himself	58
93	1995	The Random Factor	Dexter (voice)	47
94	1996	Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen	Quote Reader	47
95	1996	Rainbow	Sheriff Wyatt Hampton	36
96	1997	The Arrow	Crawford Gordon Jr.	70
97	1998	Roswell Top Secret	Self	50
98	1998	The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'	Self	50
99	1999	Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection	Captain Milligan	87
100	1999	Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special	Self	68
101	1999	Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dana Carvey		65
102	1999	Ghostbusters 1999	Self	60
103	1999	Saturday Night Live: Christmas	Self	45
104	2000	Loser	Dad	54
105	2002	Unconditional Love	Max Beasley	59
106	2003	The Making of ‘Sneakers’	Self	0
107	2003	James Brown: Soul Survivor		75
108	2004	White Coats	Dr. Cyrill Kipp	50
109	2004	Ronnie Hawkins: Still Alive and Kickin	Narrator	0
110	2005	Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live	Self	72
111	2005	Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation	Self	0
112	2005	Saturday Night Live: The Best of John Belushi	Self / Various (archive footage) (uncredited)	65
113	2005	The Blues Brothers: Transposing The Music	Self	0
114	2005	Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd	Various Characters (archive footage)	83
115	2006	Working with a Master: John Landis	Self	0
116	2010	Presidential Reunion	Jimmy Carter	61
117	2010	The Women of SNL	Various (archive footage)	60
118	2012	Sunset Strip	Self	73
119	2013	WWII: Saving the Reality	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
120	2013	Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot	Self	57
121	2013	Born In Chicago	Narrator	80
122	2014	Tammy	Don	53
123	2014	Get on Up	Ben Bart	68
124	2014	Who You Gonna Call?: A Ghostbusters Retrospective		80
125	2014	Time Is But a Window: Ghostbusters 2 and Beyond		73
126	2015	Pixels	1982 Championship MC	58
127	2015	I Am Chris Farley	Self	71
128	2015	Being Canadian	Self	55
129	2016	Ghostheads	Self	59
130	2016	Ghostbusters	Cabbie	53
131	2016	Good Fortune	Self	20
132	2019	Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh		73
133	2019	Defend, Conserve, Protect	Narrator	0
134	2019	Fantastic Mr. Murray	Self - Interviewee	62
135	2020	Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters	Self	68
136	2020	Belushi	Self (archive footage)	69
137	2021	Ghostbusters: Afterlife	Ray Stantz	73
138	2022	2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony	Self (archive footage)	82
139	2023	Zombie Town	Len Carver	44
140	2024	The Greatest Night in Pop	Self (archive footage)	79
141		Godspell 2025		0
142		Keeper of the Cup	The Keeper	0
143	2025	Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music	Self	79

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1974	Dinah!	Self	67
2	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Various Characters	70
3	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Cameo (uncredited)	70
4	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
5	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self / Various (archive footage)	70
6	1984	MTV Video Music Awards	Self - Host	76
7	1986	American Masters	Julia Child (archive footage)	74
8	1989	Tales from the Crypt	Captain Milligan	80
9	1989	The Simpsons	Postage Stamp Fellow (voice)	80
10	1991	Home Improvement	Mike Weber	74
11	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		54
12	1992	Terry Wogan's Friday Night	Self	50
13	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	72
14	1993	The Nanny	Repair Man (uncredited)	81
15	1993	Intimate Portrait	Self	45
16	1995	Live from the House of Blues		0
17	1996	The Rosie O'Donnell Show	Self	35
18	1996	Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal		69
19	1997	The Arrow	Crawford Gordon	100
20	1997	Soul Man	Rev. Mike Weber	63
21	1999	Mark Twain Prize	Self	0
22	1999	Family Guy	Dan Aykroyd (voice)	74
23	2001	According to Jim	Danny Michalski	65
24	2005	Living with Fran		70
25	2006	Second City: First Family of Comedy	Self	0
26	2010	The Defenders	Judge Max Hunter	71
27	2010	The Fran Drescher Show		75
28	2012	Inside Comedy	Self	65
29	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon		59
30	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
31	2015	Dino Hunt Canada	Narrator	0
32	2015	The Seventies	Self (archive footage)	74
33	2015	Jay Leno's Garage	Self	73
34	2018	The Conners	Buddy	71
35	2019	Biography: Comedy Icons	Himself	0
36	2019	The Movies That Made Us	Ray Stantz (archive footage)	72
37	2020	Reunited Apart	Self	55
38	2020	Hotel Paranormal		68
39	2023	The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd	Self - Host	61
40	2024	A History of the World in Six Glasses	Self	70
41	2025	SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night		80

Dan Aykroyd

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