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Dan Aykroyd
Highest Rated: 100% Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Jul 1, 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43% | 83% | Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire |
Dr. Raymond Stantz (Character), Executive Producer |
$103.0M | 2024 |
| 50% | 54% | Zombie Town | Len Carver (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 64% | 94% | Ghostbusters: Afterlife |
Dr. Raymond Stantz (Character), Executive Producer |
$128.8M | 2021 |
| 91% | 82% | Belushi | Self | - | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Defend, Conserve, Protect | Narrator | - | 2019 |
| 100% | 100% | Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters | Self | - | 2019 |
| 78% | 96% | Good Fortune | Self | - | 2016 |
| 74% | 49% | Ghostbusters |
Cabbie (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2016 |
| 50% | 63% | Live From New York! | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 81% | 68% | Get On Up | Ben Bart (Character) | $30.5M | 2014 |
| 24% | 36% | Tammy | Don (Character) | $84.5M | 2014 |
| 16% | 68% | Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return | Scarecrow (Voice) | $8.5M | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Game Changer | Detective Spencer (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 94% | 71% | Behind the Candelabra | Seymour Heller (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Art Car: The Movie | Unknown (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 66% | 51% | The Campaign | Wade Motch (Character) | $86.9M | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flip, Flop, and Fly, 40 Years of the Downchild Blues Band | Unknown (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Unbeaten | Narrator | - | 2010 |
| 13% | 34% | Yogi Bear | Yogi (Voice) | $100.2M | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | Monty Python Almost the Truth Obligatory Making of Special | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 29% | 38% | War, Inc. | Mr. Vice President (Character) | $578.5K | 2008 |
| 14% | 69% | I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry | Capt. Tucker (Character) | $119.7M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Shortcut to Happiness | Julius Johnson (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 41% | Let's All Hate Toronto | Unknown (Character) | - | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Intern Academy | Dr. Cyrill Kipp (Character) | - | 2004 |
| 5% | 39% | Christmas With the Kranks | Vic Frohmeyer (Character) | $73.7M | 2004 |
| 45% | 65% | 50 First Dates | Dr. Keats (Character) | $120.8M | 2004 |
| 66% | 68% | Bright Young Things | Lord Monomark (Character) | $931.8K | 2003 |
| 14% | 68% | Unconditional Love | Max Beasley (Character) | - | 2002 |
| 15% | 40% | Crossroads | Pete (Character) | $37.2M | 2002 |
| 45% | 53% | The Curse of the Jade Scorpion | Chris Magruder (Character) | $7.5M | 2001 |
| 44% | 48% | Evolution | Governor Lewis (Character) | $38.3M | 2001 |
| 24% | 66% | Pearl Harbor | Captain Thurman (Character) | $198.5M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | On the Nose | Dr. Barry Davis (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Earth vs. the Spider | Det. Insp. Jack Grillo (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 82% | 72% | The House of Mirth | Gus Trenor (Character) | $3.0M | 2000 |
| 42% | 42% | Stardom | Barry Levine (Character) | $10.6K | 2000 |
| 24% | 35% | Loser | Dad (Character) | $15.5M | 2000 |
| 26% | 30% | Diamonds | Lance (Character) | $81.9K | 1999 |
| 92% | 52% | Antz | Chip (Voice) | $90.7M | 1998 |
| 46% | 37% | Blues Brothers 2000 |
Elwood Blues (Character), Writer, Producer |
$14.0M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 21% | Susan's Plan | Bob (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 82% | 87% | Grosse Pointe Blank | Grocer (Character) | $28.1M | 1997 |
| 14% | 27% | Feeling Minnesota | Ben Costikyan (Character) | $3.1M | 1996 |
| 47% | 64% | My Fellow Americans | President William Haney (Character) | $22.3M | 1996 |
| 12% | 32% | Celtic Pride | Jimmy Flaherty (Character) | $9.2M | 1996 |
| 30% | 47% | Sgt. Bilko | Col. John T. Hall (Character) | $30.1M | 1996 |
| 0% | 20% | Getting Away With Murder | Jack Lambert (Character) | $127.7K | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rainbow | Sheriff Wyatt Hampton (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 40% | 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 |
| 5% | 25% | Exit to Eden | Fred Lavery (Character) | $6.8M | 1994 |
| 35% | 37% | Coneheads |
Beldar Conehead/ Screenwriter |
$20.2M | 1993 |
| 27% | 46% | My Girl 2 | Harry Sultenfuss (Character) | $16.7M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | The Best of the Blues Brothers | Unknown (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 36% | 48% | This Is My Life | Arnold Moss (Character) | $2.8M | 1992 |
| 80% | 80% | Sneakers | Mother (Character) | $50.6M | 1992 |
| 61% | 81% | Chaplin | Mack Sennett (Character) | $8.3M | 1992 |
| 52% | 77% | My Girl | Harry Sultenfuss (Character) | $60.2M | 1991 |
| 15% | 48% | Nothing but Trouble |
Judge Alvin "J.P" Valkenheiser/ Director |
$7.5M | 1991 |
| 0% | 27% | Loose Cannons | Ellis Fielding (Character) | $4.5M | 1990 |
| 85% | 81% | Driving Miss Daisy | Boolie Werthan (Character) | $105.6M | 1989 |
| 55% | 61% | Ghostbusters II |
Doctor Raymond Stantz (Character), Writer |
$110.4M | 1989 |
| 40% | 71% | The Great Outdoors | Roman Craig (Character) | $37.3M | 1988 |
| 20% | 30% | My Stepmother Is an Alien | Steven Mills (Character) | $12.9M | 1988 |
| 4% | 17% | Caddyshack II | Capt. Tom Everett (Character) | $11.3M | 1988 |
| 33% | 45% | The Couch Trip | John Burns (Character) | $9.9M | 1988 |
| 50% | 41% | Dragnet |
Sgt. Joe Friday (Character), Screenwriter |
$56.0M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | One More Saturday Night | Executive Producer | $13.9K | 1986 |
| 40% | 49% | Into the Night | Herb (Character) | - | 1985 |
| 35% | 56% | Spies Like Us |
Austin Millbarge (Character), Screenwriter |
$56.5M | 1985 |
| 95% | 88% | Ghostbusters |
Doctor Raymond Stantz (Character), Writer |
$298.5M | 1984 |
| 77% | 82% | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Weber (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Nothing Lasts Forever | Buck Heller (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 33% | 40% | Doctor Detroit |
Clifford Skridlow / |
- | 1983 |
| 88% | 85% | Trading Places | Louis Winthorpe III (Character) | - | 1983 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | It Came From Hollywood | Unknown (Character) | - | 1982 |
| 57% | 49% | Neighbors | Vic (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 72% | 92% | The Blues Brothers |
Elwood Blues (Character), Writer |
- | 1980 |
| 41% | 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The UnBelievable With Dan Aykroyd |
Executive Producer, Host |
2023-2024 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2020-2021 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2014 2021 |
| 85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Postage Stamp Fellow (Guest Voice) | 2021 |
| 93% | 48% | The Conners | Buddy (Guest Star) | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 79% | Workin' Moms | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jay Leno's Garage | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2010 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alan Carr: Chatty Man | 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 | 58% | Saturday Night Live |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Guest Star), Guest, Host |
1975-1979 1998 2003 2009 2013 |
| 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 | 65% | Family Guy | Himself (Guest Voice) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | According to Jim | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002-2004 2009 |
| 0% | No Score Yet | Living With Fran | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Soul Man | Rev. Mike Weber (Character) | 1997-1998 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | Home Improvement | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | The Nanny | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994 |
| 82% | 97% | Tales From the Crypt | Unknown (Character) | 1991 |