Dan Aykroyd attended Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada (1969), where he majored in Criminology and Sociology. He dropped out to work with Second City Stage Troupe in Toronto and started his acting career at Carleton University with Sock'n'Buskin, the campus theater/drama club. Married to Donna Dixon...See full bio »
1998Blues Brothers 2000
(performer: "Cheaper To Keep Her", "Lookin' For A Fox", "Riders In The Sky A Cowboy Legend", "Funky Nassau", "Turn On Your Love Light", "Please, Please, Please")
1990Loose Cannons
(performer: "Loose Cannons", "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man", "Proud Mary", "The Theme from The Love Boat")
1987Dragnet
(writer: "City of Crime" / performer: "City of Crime")
1983Doctor Detroit
(performer: "Hold Him", "Working Girls", "Yo Skridlow")
1980The Blues Brothers
(performer: "SHE CAUGHT THE KATY" - uncredited, "I CAN'T TURN YOU LOOSE" - uncredited, "SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER" - uncredited, "GIMME SOME LOVIN'", "THEME FROM 'RAWHIDE'" - uncredited, "STAND BY YOUR MAN" - uncredited, "SWEET HOME CHICAGO", "JAILHOUSE ROCK" - uncredited)
Chevy Chase was the first to make it huge - people would recognize him in the street: 'Hey Chubby Chase, look at Chubby Chase'. Everybody knew who he was. He was the first to start on a movie career and maybe [John Belushi] was a little jealous. But I liked Chevy and was sorry to see him leave
Saturday Night Live]...
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Trivia:
He's the first male regular cast member of
Saturday Night Live to be nominated for an Academy Award. (Joan Cusack was the very first regular cast member of the show to be Oscar-nominated.)
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Often works with John Landis and Bill Murray
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