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 Dan Aykroyd
Birthday: July 1, 1952
Birth
Place: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Height: 6' 1"
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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 Jamie Lee Curtis - not a productive move on the comic's part. To call the film "reviled" would be kind; critics and the public loathed the picture and ran it into the ground. Perhaps in response to this (and in an attempt to bounce back from supporting turns and reclaim a starring role in a blockbuster), Aykroyd planned to revive the smashing success of the Ghostbusters franchise. The recollaboration with Harold Ramis, tentatively titled Ghostbusters in Hell, will mark the third installment of the series, co-stars will include Rick Moranis and Ben Stiller. Release is slated for 2008.Since 1983, Aykroyd has been married to the radiant Donna Dixon, a model who holds the twin titles of Miss Virginia 1976, and Miss District of Columbia 1977; the two co-starred in the 1983 Michael Pressman comedy Doctor Detroit. In Aykroyd's off time, he claims a varied number of interests, including UFOs and supernatural phenomena (his brother Peter works as a psychic researcher), blues music (he co-owns the House of Blues chain of nightclubs/restaurants), and police detective work.
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- As an avid blues fan, he hosted a nationally syndicated radio how "House of Blues" as his blues brother character Elwood Blues.
- A third baby daughter, with Dixon, Stella Irene August, weighing in at 6 lbs was born. [5 April 1998]
- A police buff, he rides an Ontario Provincial Police motorcycle, collects police badges, sometimes rides shotgun with detectives in squad cars, and owns in partnership with several Toronto police officers.
- Was good friends with John Belushi.
- Is very interested in the supernatural and has an extensive collection of books on the subject.
- His grandfather was a Mountie.
- Was once engaged to Carrie Fisher.
- Daughters with Donna Dixon; Danielle (b. 1989) and Kingston Belle (b. 1993).
- Worked as a mail sorter for Canada's national postal service before he became an actor.
- Older brother of Peter Aykroyd. Like Peter, an alumni of the Second City comedy troupe in Toronto.
- Roman Catholic of English and French extraction. On his father's side, he can trace his ancestry to the 15th century.
- Is a victim of syndactylism, a birth defect where several digits are fused together. In the film Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979), Mr. Aykroyd takes his shoes & socks off on-screen, to reveal this anomaly.
- Co-owns House of Blues with friend Isaac Tigrett
- On his passport, he lists his occupation as "Writer".
- Has played harmonica since he was 17 years old.
- Holds an advisory commission with the police force in Payne City, Georgia.
- Once helped to subdue a drunk and disorderly passenger on a Montreal-LA flight.
- Was offered the role of "D-Day" in Animal House (1978), but turned it down.
- After working together on three films, Jamie Lee Curtis called him the best "screen kisser" who ever had a scene with her.
- Though he has made numerous appearances on "Saturday Night Live" since leaving the show in 1979, he did not actually host the show until the 2002-2003 season finale.
- Has a "Blues Brothers" type band with John Belushi's brother, actor Jim Belushi.
- Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. pg. 32-33. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
- Proposed to Donna Dixon on Fran Drescher's porch. Drescher played a huge hand in getting them together from the start.
- Received the Order of Canada in 1999.
- Aykroyd met with John Belushi in a Chicago speak easy that was a favorite night spot of his and put on a blues record to play in the background while he and Belushi discussed Aykroyd's possibly joining "Saturday Night Live" (1975). Not only did they hit it off and become good friends, Belushi became fascinated with the blues music that was being played in the background because, to Aykroyd's surprise, the Chicago born Belushi was primarily a fan of heavy metal. Aykroyd's familiarizing Belushi with blues music eventually led to them forming their popular "Blues Brothers" act, with a little input from then SNL music director Howard Shore.
- Aykroyd and John Belushi were scheduled to present the first annual Best Visual Effects Oscar at the 1982 Academy Awards, but Belushi died weeks before the ceremony. Aykroyd presented the award alone, and stated from the podium: "My partner would have loved to have been here tonight to present this award, since he was a bit of a Visual Effect himself."
- His right eye is blue and his left eye is brown.
- Came up with the character of Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute, when he lived with former SNL writer Rosie Schuster. He first did it to entertain Rosie at home.
- As a child in the early 1960s, he was diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome and Asperger syndrome. The symptoms had mostly subsided by the time he was 14.
- He has owned or co-owned several bars and restaurants, including the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City and the House of Blues chain.
- He has such a fascination with both police officers and criminals, one of the writers from the original "Saturday Night Live" (1975) said his ultimate fantasy was to commit a crime, then arrest himself for it.
- Said that his original finished script for The Blues Brothers (1980) was over 300 pages long, roughly the size of a phone book. He even sent it to director John Landis in the guise of a phone book as a joke.
- Ranked #14 on Tropopkin's Top 25 Most Intriguing People [Issue #100]
- His original idea for Ghost Busters (1984) was set in the future, where an army of Ghostbusters fought hordes of ghosts.
- He used to refer to the green Slimer ghost from Ghost Busters (1984) as "the ghost of John Belushi", as Slimer's party animal personality reminded him very much of his friend.
- A scene was deleted from Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979) where his character, Sgt. Frank Tree, met John Belushi's character, Wild Bill Kelso. The scene took place right after the tank was dropped into the water by the Japanese sub: Wild Bill was swimming out in the sub's direction just as Frank emerges from the top of the sinking tank, spots Wild Bill and they look at each other curiously, as if recognizing each other, a nod to their real life friendship. It was the only scene in the film where they interacted.
- Supports MUFON, a UFO study group.
- He's the first male regular cast member of "Saturday Night Live" (1975) to be nominated for an Academy Award. (Joan Cusack was the very first regular cast member of the show to be Oscar-nominated.)
- His parents are Lorraine and Peter Aykroyd (not to be confused with his younger brother Peter Aykroyd). His father is best known as P.H. Aykroyd.
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