Dan Aykroyd
Gender: Male
Born: 1st July 1952 (currently 59 years old)
Nationality: Canada, United States of America
TV programs: Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal, 1984 MTV Video Music Awards, Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live, Soul Man, Live From the House of Blues
Movies: 1941, The Rutles, Antz, Blues Brothers 2000, Bright Young Things, Caddyshack II, Celtic Pride, Chaplin, Christmas with the Kranks, Crossroads, Doctor Detroit, Dragnet, Driving Miss Daisy, Exit to Eden, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, Grosse Pointe Blank, North, Nothing But Trouble, Sgt. Bilko, Sneakers, Spies Like Us, The Blues Brothers, Shortcut to Happiness, The Great Outdoors, Trading Places, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Unconditional Love, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Mr. Mike's Mondo Video, The Couch Trip, Susan's Plan, Nothing Lasts Forever, Stardom, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Loser, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Neighbors, Intern Academy, My Girl, Getting Away with Murder, My Girl 2, My Stepmother Is an Alien, My Fellow Americans, Diamonds, Rainbow, War Inc., Pearl Harbor, The House of Mirth, Loose Cannons, Earth vs. the Spider, Tommy Boy, Feeling Minnesota, Coneheads, This Is My Life, The Arrow, Ghostbusters, Yogi Bear, 50 First Dates, Canadian Bacon, Evolution, Into the Night, Comedy Gold: The Hilarious Story of Canadian Comedy, Dorothy of Oz, On the Nose, Presidential Reunion, Don't Start Me Talkin': The Junior Wells Story, Best of the Blues Brothers, Ronnie Hawkins: Still Alive and Kickin', Saturday Night Live: 25 Years of Music Volume 1, Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection, Evidence: The Case for NASA UFOs, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Nothing But Trouble, Casper, The Best of the Blues Brothers, The Best of the Blues Brothers, Two-Fisted Tales
Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian comedian, singer, actor and screenwriter. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers (with John Belushi) and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.
Aykroyd was born on July 1, 1952, at the Ottawa General Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He grew up in the Canadian capital, where his father, Samuel Peter Aykroyd, a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. His mother, Lorraine Hélène (née Gougeon), is a secretary, of French Canadian descent. His brother, Peter, also became a comedy actor. Aykroyd was born with syndactyly (webbed toes), which was revealed in the movie Mr. Mike's Mondo Video and in a short film on Saturday Night Live (Don't Look Back In Anger). He was also born with heterochromia (a condition of having two differently coloured eyes). His right eye is green and his left eye is brown.
Aykroyd's great-grandfather, Samuel Augustus Aykroyd (1855–1933), a dentist, had been a mystic and had been involved in Spiritualism, which would greatly interest Aykroyd, who stated that "All that
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