Start of Dan Aykroyd Post – Part 2
The second part of our post on the legendary comedian, movie star and producer, musician and businessman leads off with footage from his movie Dragnet…..in which he co-starred with Tom Hanks and co-wrote as well…..which was released in 1987……as the film was both an homage and a satire of the previous Dragnet series…..with Aykroyd playing Sgt. Joe Friday…..as a police officer whose law-and-order attitude is at odds with modern sensibilities.
Movie Clips & Comedy – Scene from the Movie Dragnet – 1985 – A mykedel Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd + Tom Hanks: The Pool Scene As Ms. Sylvia Witt Asks Sgt Joe Friday For An Honest Answers”
In 1988, Aykroyd co-starred with John Candy in the comedy film The Great Outdoors…..when Aykroyd then appeared in four other films released in 1988 …..including The Couch Trip…..She’s Having a Baby…..Caddyshack II…..and My Stepmother Is an Alien…..of which all of them were critical and commercial failures.
Movie Clips & Comedy – Scene from the Movie The Great Outdoors – 1988 – A Movieclips Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd + John Candy: The Restaurant Scene With the Old ’96er”
Movie Clips & Comedy – Scene from the Movie The Great Outdoors – 1988 – A Movieclips Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd + John Candy: There’s A Big Bear Chasing Me Scene”
Movie Clips & Comedy – Scene from the Movie The Couch Trip – 1988 – A Movieclips Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd: The Premature Ejaculator Scene”
Movie Clips & Comedy – Scene from the Movie Caddyshack II – 1988 – A Clips&More4You Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd: The Gopher vs Captain Tom Everett Scene”
Movie Clips & Comedy – Official Trailer – For the Movie My Stepmother Is An Alien – 1988 – A 2ombieboy’s VHS Vault Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd + Kim Basinger Bedroom Scene”
A sequel to Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, was released in 1989…..when Aykroyd and the other co-creators were reluctant to make another Ghostbusters film…..but succumbed to pressure from the film’s studio, Columbia Pictures…..as the film, while considered inferior to the original, was another big hit….. earning US$215 million. Aykroyd was then nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1989’s Driving Miss Daisy. He was the 4th SNL cast member to be nominated for an Oscar, after Joan Cusack, who was the 3rd.
Movie & Comedy – Dan Aykroyd + Bill Murray + Harold Ramis – 1989 – A Ghostbusters Production Special – “The Ghostbusters: On Trial In The Courtroom With The Judge and The Scoleri Brothers Scene”
Aykroyd’s directorial debut was 1991’s Nothing but Trouble starring Demi Moore, Chevy Chase, John Candy, and Aykroyd, sporting a bulbous prosthetic nose…..as the film was a critical and box-office flop. Most of Aykroyd’s other films in the 1990’s were similarly poorly received…..which included Coneheads (also based on a SNL skit)…..Exit to Eden…..Blues Brothers 2000…..and Getting Away with Murder…..with four exceptions were My Girl in 1991, which starred Jamie Lee Curtis and Macaulay Culkin…..then came Sneakers in 1992, which starred Robert Redford…..and Tommy Boy in 1995, which starred SNL alumni David Spade and Chris Farley, in which Aykroyd played the role of Ray Zalinsky…..and then came Grosse Pointe Blank in 1997, in which Aykroyd had a well-received role as a rival hit man.
Movie & Comedy – Official Trailer – 1991 – For the Movie Nothing But Trouble – Starring Chevy Chase + Demi Moore + John Candy + Dan Aykroyd
In 1994, Aykroyd made a guest appearance in an episode of the sitcom The Nanny as a refrigerator repairman. In 1997, he starred as an Episcopal priest in the ABC sitcom Soul Man, which lasted two seasons. In 1998, he voiced the role of Chip, a wasp, in DreamWorks Animation film Antz. In 2001, Aykroyd starred in the Woody Allen film The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. Most of his subsequent film roles have tended to be small character parts in big-budget productions…..such as a signals analyst in Pearl Harbor in 2001 …..a neurologist in 50 First Dates in 2004…..an annoying neighbor in Christmas with the Kranks in 2004…..and a fire captain in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry in 2007.
Comedy – Sitcom – Dan Aykroyd – 1998 – A MetalWarriorOfChrist\m/ Production Special – Dan Aykroyd: Soul Man Season 2 Episode 2 – “Hello Todd, Hello Nancy, Goodbye Harley”
Movie Clips – Full Length Animation Movie – 1998 – From the Movie Antz – A Movieclips Production Special – “Chip (Dan Aykroyd) & Miffy (Jane Curtin) Scene With The Euro-Trash”
Movieclips & Comedy – From the Movie Christmas With the Kranks – 2004 – A NOW COMEDY Production Special – “Jamie Lee Curtis + Dan Aykroyd: Mrs. Krank Escaping the House and Neighborhood Decorating for Christmas”
Movie & Comedy – Official Trailer – 2001 – For the Movie The Curse of the Jade Scorpion – Starring Woody Allen + Hellen Hunt + Charlize Theron + Dan Aykroyd
In 2009, Aykroyd and Ramis wrote and appeared in Ghostbusters: The Video Game, which also featured Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, William Atherton and Brian Doyle-Murray. In 2010, he played the voice of the title character, Yogi Bear, in the live-action/CGI-animated-film Yogi Bear. That same year, Aykroyd and Chevy Chase guest-starred in the Family Guy episode “Spies Reminiscent of Us”, an homage to Spies Like Us. Aykroyd appeared in two February 2011 episodes of CBS’s The Defenders as Judge Max Hunter, which also starred Jim Belushi. He also appeared on Top Chef Canada as a guest judge. He had supporting roles in the 2012 political comedy film The Campaign, which starred SNL alum Will Ferrell, and in the 2013 HBO film Behind the Candelabra.
Movie Clips & Comedy – Animation – Dan Aykroyd Voice Actor – For the Movie Yogi Bear – 2010 – A Movieclips Production Special – “Yogi Bear (Dan Aykroyd) + Boo Boo (Justin Timberlake): Getting Caught Scamming Campers For Food”
Movieclips & Comedy – From the Movie Spies Like Us – 2004 – A J-Boog 361 Production Special – “Chevy Chase + Dan Aykroyd: Spies Like Us Test To Become A Spy Scene”
In 2014, Aykroyd voiced the role of Scarecrow in Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, and had a supporting role in the comedy film Tammy. In 2015, he appeared in a State Farm insurance commercial along with Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman, as the Coneheads, talking to “Jake”, a State Farm agent, and played the emcee of the video game championship in the science fiction comedy film Pixels.
Movie Clips & Animation – From the Movie Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return – A The Creator Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd As The Scarecrow: Legends of Oz Dorothy’s Return Movie…. But Only When Scarecrow Is On Screen”
TV Ads & Comedy – Dan Aykroyd + Jane Curtin as The Coneheads Talking to Jake from State Farm Insurance
Movie Clips – From the Movie PIXELS – 2015 – A Darth Blader Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd: Competition Emcee In The Arcade Scene” – Put To The Music “We Will Rock You” by Queen
Aykroyd was one of the executive producers of Ghostbusters, a long-discussed reboot of the Ghostbusters franchise…..which was released in 2016. Aykroyd had a cameo appearance in the film, along with many of the rest of the original Ghostbusters cast.
Movie Clips & Comedy – From the Movie Ghostbusters Afterlife – 2016 – A NOW PLAYING Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd + Bill Murray + Harold Ramis + Ernie Hudson (Original Ghostbusters): Return From Afterlife To Save The World of Original Sigourney Weaver Menace”
In early 2021, Aykroyd provided the voice of the Postage Stamp Fellow in the episode The Dad-Feelings Limited in the TV series The Simpsons. He also reprised his role of Dr. Ray Stantz in the movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Though Sony has not confirmed any further sequels to Afterlife, Aykroyd expressed interest in having the surviving three actors of the original Ghostbusters team continuing to reprise their roles for as many sequels as possible while they were alive.
Movie Clips – 2021 – From the Movie Ghostbusters Afterlife – A Cut Scenes Production Special – “Dr. Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd): You Have One Phone Call….Who Are You Gonna Call?”
Aykroyd participated in the recording of “We Are the World” in 1985, as a member of the chorus. He wrote the liner notes for fellow Ottawa-born blues musician JW-Jones’s album Bluelisted in 2008. Until its ending in 2018, he hosted the internationally syndicated radio show “Elwood’s BluesMobile”, formerly known as the House of Blues Radio Hour, under his Blues Brothers moniker Elwood Blues.
Music – House of Blues Radio Hour With Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) – 2018 – A Freezknotable/Metal Bunny Records Production Special – “Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd): House of Blues Radio Hour with Elwood Blues #3 BMBC/United Startions Radio Net – Featuring Eric Bibb’s New CD “Natural Light”
In 1992, Aykroyd and Hard Rock Cafe co-founder Isaac Tigrett founded the House of Blues, a chain of music venues, with the mission to promote African-American cultural contributions of blues music and folk art. Many other music and Hollywood personalities helped to finance it at its start. It began as a single location in Cambridge, Massachusetts, although other locations quickly followed, starting with a venue in New Orleans in 1994. In 2004, House of Blues became the second-largest live music promoter in the world, with seven venues and 22 amphi-theatres in the United States and Canada. It was bought by Live Nation in 2006.
Music – Special – 1992 – A Look At The Original “House of Blues” in Cambridge, MA (Harvard Square) – As the 1st House of Blues Location Dan Aykroyd and His Team Ever Opened
On New Year’s Eve, 1994, Aykroyd opened the Aykroyd’s Ghetto House Cafe on Princess Street in Kingston, Ontario. In 2007, Aykroyd and artist John Alexander founded Crystal Head Vodka, a brand of high-end vodka known for its distinctive skull-shaped bottle and for being filtered through Herkimer diamond crystals. Aykroyd is also part owner of several wineries in Canada’s Niagara Peninsula, and the company that distributes Patrón tequila in Canada.
Talk Shows & Comedy – The Joe Rogan Experience Show With Guest Dan Aykroyd – 2019 – An All Star Podcast Compilation Production Special – “Joe Rogan + Dan Aykroyd: Talk About The Legend of the Crystal Skulls”
In 2016, Aykroyd partnered with TV producers Eric Bischoff and Jason Hervey and game developer Ike McFadden to release an online-casino game that features the Blues Brothers…..as Aykroyd provided the in-game voice of his Elwood Blues character via voiceover.
Talk Shows & Comedy – The Salut-Bonjour Show With Anouk Meunier – Guest Dan Aykroyd – 2019 – An AJ Quick Production Special – “Anouk Meunier Interviews Dan Aykroyd: The Salut-Bonjour Show – On New Ghostbusters Gaming Video That Is About to Be Released”
In 2009, Aykroyd contributed a series of reminiscences on his upbringing in Canada for a charity album titled Dan Aykroyd’s Canada. He helped start the Blue Line Foundation…..which is redeveloping flood-damaged lots in New Orleans and helping first responders buy them at reduced prices. Coastal Blue Line LLC, hopes to eventually rebuild 400 properties in New Orleans. Aykroyd is a member of Canadian charity Artists Against Racism.
Movie Clips & Comedy – Scene from Movie Canadian Bacon – 1995 – A RomiePie Production Special – “Motorcycle Cop (Dan Aykroyd) + Truck Driver (John Candy) In The Pulled Over Scene”
Movie Clips & Comedy – Scene from the Movie Trading Places 1983 – A BadfishKoo Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd + Eddie Murphy: As Two Rastafari Who Meet Unexpectedly (ha,ha) On A Train Scene”
Aykroyd was briefly engaged to actress Carrie Fisher, proposing to her on the set of The Blues Brothers. In the film, she appeared as a jilted girlfriend of John Belushi’s character Jake Blues. Their engagement ended when she reconciled with her former boyfriend, musician Paul Simon. In 1983, Aykroyd married actress Donna Dixon…..when the couple met on the set of Doctor Detroit released the same year and appeared together in four additional films: Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983); Spies Like Us (1985); The Couch Trip (1988); and Exit to Eden (1994). Together, they have three daughters, including Danielle (known by her stage name, Vera Sola). The couple announced in April 2022 that they were separating after 39 years of marriage, but would remain legally married. Aykroyd maintains his Canadian roots as a longtime resident of Sydenham, Ontario, with his estate on Loughborough Lake.
Actors & Comedy – Mini Documentary – 2022 – A Stars Of Hollywood Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd and wife Donna Dixon: Split After Nearly 40 years of Marriage”
In a 2004 NPR interview with host Terry Gross, Aykroyd said that he had been diagnosed in childhood with Tourette syndrome (TS). He stated that his TS was successfully treated with therapy. In 2015, he stated during a HuffPost Show interview with hosts Roy Sekoff and Marc Lamont Hill that he has Asperger syndrome which was “never diagnosed”, but was “sort of a self-diagnosis” based on several of his own characteristics.
Comedy – SNL Skit – 1978 – A Repoman101 Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd: Inflation Is Our Friend – How Democrats View Inflation”
Aykroyd is a former reserve commander for the police department in Harahan, Louisiana, working for Chief of Police Peter Dale. While on the force, Aykroyd carried his badge with him at all times. He currently serves as a reserve deputy of the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department in Hinds County, Mississippi. He supports the reserves with a fundraiser concert along with other blues and gospel singers in Mississippi.
Talk Shows & Comedy – The Joe Rogan Experience – Dan Aykroyd – 2019 – A PowerfulJRE Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd: Talking About UFOs…..Sleeping With Ghosts…..Spiritualists…..1952 UFO Incident…..The Marfa Lights…..Crystal Head Vodka….et al”
Aykroyd’s passions for the outdoors, geology and paleontology, which he attributes to watching his father work on constructing the Gatineau Parkway which included blasting through granite rock formations to run the highway, have led him to join Canadian paleontologist Philip J. Currie on a number of digs, including fundraising digs and galas as fundraisers for the construction of the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Wembley, Alberta, which recognized Aykroyd’s contributions by naming its theatre the Aykroyd Family Theatre.
Comedy – Dan Aykroyd – Special Clips Of Comedic Genius – 2011 – A Yorkington00 Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd: A Compilation of Some of His Best Comedy”
Aykroyd has acquired American citizenship. In an appearance on the Today show, Aykroyd referred to John Belushi and himself as “kindred spirits”. In the biography Belushi, Aykroyd claims that Belushi was the only man with whom he could ever dance. Aykroyd and Belushi were scheduled to present the Academy Award for Visual Effects in 1982, but Belushi died only a few weeks prior to the ceremony. Though devastated by his friend’s death, Aykroyd presented the award alone, remarking from the stage: “My partner would have loved to have been here to present this, given that he was something of a visual effect himself.”
Movie Clips & Comedy – Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) & Jake Blues (John Belushi) – From the Movie The Blues Brothers -1980 – A Binge Society Production Special – “The Blues Brothers: The Gospel Scene With The King of Soul James Brown as the Reverend”
Aykroyd was openly hostile to the 1989 film Wired, a biopic of Belushi which was based on the 1984 book of the same name by journalist Bob Woodward, starred Michael Chiklis in his film debut as Belushi…..and featured him as a character played by actor Gary Groomes. Along with Belushi’s widow Judith and brother Jim, and many other friends, associates and relatives of Belushi, he boycotted the film and the associated book for misrepresenting Belushi’s life…..and expressed his desire that the film would flop at the box office….. which it ultimately did. During an interview for MTV’s The Big Picture in June 1988, he said, “I have witches working now to jinx the thing… I hope it never gets seen and I am going to hurl all the negative energy I can and muster all my hell energies [against them]. My thunderbolts are out on this one, quite truthfully.” He had actor J. T. Walsh removed from the film Loose Cannons after Walsh had already done two days of filming in the role of Grimmer, after finding out that Walsh had been in the cast of Wired. Walsh, who had played Bob Woodward in Wired, was replaced as Grimmer by fellow Canadian Paul Koslo, causing the film a $125,000 production delay.
Music & Movie – Dan Aykroyd + James Brown – From the Movie Doctor Detroit – A Film Major Production Special – “James Brown + Dan Aykroyd Perform “Get Up Offa That Thing / Dr. Detroit.”
I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years … Loads of people have seen spirits, heard a voice, or felt the cold temperature. I believe that they are between here and there, that they exist between the fourth and fifth dimensions, and that they visit us frequently. Aykroyd’s great-grandfather, a dentist…..who was a mystic who corresponded with author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the subject of Spiritualism…..and was a member of the Lily Dale Society. Other than Spiritualism, Aykroyd is also interested in various other aspects of the paranormal, particularly UFOlogy…..while he is a lifetime member of and official Hollywood consultant for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). Along these lines, he served, from 1996 to 2000, as host of Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal…..which claimed to describe cases drawn from the archives of “The Office of Scientific Investigation and Research”. In 2005, Aykroyd produced the DVD Dan Aykroyd: Unplugged on UFOs.
Talk Shows & Actors – Late Night with Seth Meyers – Guests Bill Murray + Dan Aykroyd + Ernie Hudson – 2022 – A Late Night w/ Seth Meyers Production Special – “The Ghostbusters (Murray, Aykroyd and Hudson): On Their Upcoming Movie Ghostbusters Afterlife & How They Met Each Other”
Aykroyd was interviewed for 80 minutes by UFOlogist David Sereda, discussing in depth many aspects of the UFO phenomenon.
Talk Shows & Actors – CNN Larry King Live – Guest Dan Aykroyd – 2013 – A Larry King Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd: Interviewed by Larry King About the Four UFO’s He Has Seen”
On September 29, 2009, Peter Aykroyd Sr., Dan’s father, published a book entitled A History of Ghosts. This book chronicled the family’s historical involvement in the Spiritualist movement, to which Aykroyd readily refers. Aykroyd wrote the introduction and accompanied his father on a series of promotional activities…..which included launches in New York and Toronto …..with appearances on Larry King Live and Coast to Coast AM…..and various other public-relations initiatives. Aykroyd also read the introduction for the audio version of the book. In 1997, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry awarded Aykroyd in absentia the Snuffed Candle Award for hosting Psi Factor and being a “long-time promoter … of paranormal claims”. Following the awards, Joe Nickell wrote to Aykroyd asking for the research behind the “cases” presented on Psi Factor, particularly a claim that NASA scientists were “killed while investigating a meteor crash and giant eggs were found and incubated, yielding a flea the size of a hog”.
Special – Actor / Comedy – Dan Aykroyd – 2021 – A Truth channel 72 Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd: Talks About His Men in Black Encounter
Filmography
Film
Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
1977 |
Love at First Sight |
Roy |
|
1979 |
Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video |
Jack Lord Priest / Himself |
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1941 |
Motor Sergeant Frank Tree |
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1980 |
The Blues Brothers |
Elwood J. Blues |
Also writer |
1981 |
Neighbors |
Vic Zeck |
|
1982 |
It Came from Hollywood |
Himself |
Documentary |
1983 |
Doctor Detroit |
Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit |
|
Trading Places |
Louis Winthorpe III |
||
Twilight Zone: The Movie |
Passenger / Ambulance Driver |
||
1984 |
Ghostbusters |
Dr. Raymond Stantz |
Also writer |
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom |
Art Weber |
Cameo |
|
Nothing Lasts Forever |
Buck Heller |
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1985 |
Into the Night |
Herb |
|
Spies Like Us |
Austin Millbarge |
Also writer |
|
1987 |
Dragnet |
Sergeant Joe Friday |
|
1988 |
The Couch Trip |
John W. Burns Jr. |
|
She’s Having a Baby |
Roman Craig |
Uncredited cameo |
|
The Great Outdoors |
Roman Craig |
||
Caddyshack II |
Captain Tom Everett |
||
My Stepmother Is an Alien |
Steven Mills |
||
1989 |
Driving Miss Daisy |
Boolie Werthan |
|
Ghostbusters II |
Dr. Raymond Stantz |
Also writer |
|
1990 |
Loose Cannons |
Detective Ellis Fielding |
|
Masters of Menace |
Johnny Lewis |
||
1991 |
My Girl |
Harry Sultenfuss |
|
Nothing but Trouble |
Judge Alvin “J.P” ValkenheiserBobo |
Also writer and director |
|
1992 |
Chaplin |
Mack Sennett |
|
Sneakers |
Darren “Mother” Roskow |
||
This Is My Life |
Arnold Moss |
||
1993 |
Coneheads |
Beldar Conehead |
Also writer |
1994 |
A Century of Cinema |
Himself |
Documentary |
Exit to Eden |
Fred Lavery |
||
My Girl 2 |
Harry Sultenfuss |
||
North |
Pa Tex |
||
1995 |
Canadian Bacon |
OPP Officer |
Uncredited cameo |
Casper |
Dr. Raymond Stantz |
Uncredited cameo |
|
The Random Factor |
Dexter |
Voice role |
|
Tommy Boy |
Ray Zalinsky |
||
1996 |
Rainbow |
Sheriff Wyatt Hampton |
|
Celtic Pride |
Jimmy Flaherty |
||
Feeling Minnesota |
Detective Ben Costikyan |
||
My Fellow Americans |
President Bill Haney |
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Getting Away with Murder |
Jack Lambert |
||
Sgt. Bilko |
Colonel John T. Hall |
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1997 |
Grosse Pointe Blank |
Grocer |
|
1998 |
Antz |
Chip |
Voice role |
Blues Brothers 2000 |
Elwood J. Blues |
Also writer and producer |
|
Susan’s Plan |
Bob |
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1999 |
Diamonds |
Lance Agensky |
|
2000 |
The House of Mirth |
Gus Trenor |
|
Loser |
Dad |
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Stardom |
Barry Levine |
||
2001 |
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion |
Chris Magruder |
|
Evolution |
Governor Lewis |
||
The Frank Truth |
Himself |
Documentary |
|
On the Nose |
Dr. Barry Davis |
||
Pearl Harbor |
Captain Harold Thurman |
||
2002 |
Crossroads |
Pete Wagner |
|
Unconditional Love |
Max Beasly |
||
2003 |
Bright Young Things |
Lord Monomark |
|
2004 |
50 First Dates |
Dr. Joseph Keats |
|
Intern Academy |
Dr. Cyrill Kipp |
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Christmas with the Kranks |
Vic Frohmeyer |
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2007 |
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry |
Captain Phineas Tucker |
|
Shortcut to Happiness |
Julius Jenson |
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2008 |
War, Inc. |
The Former Vice President |
|
2009 |
Julie & Julia |
Julia Child parody |
in archival Saturday Night Live footage (Uncredited) |
2010 |
Yogi Bear |
Yogi Bear |
Voice role |
2012 |
The Campaign |
Wade Motch |
|
The Ultimate Sacrifice |
Narrator |
VoiceDocumentary |
|
2013 |
Behind the Candelabra |
Seymour Heller |
|
2014 |
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return |
Scarecrow |
Voice role |
Tammy |
Don |
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Get on Up |
Ben Bart |
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2015 |
Pixels |
1982 Championship MC |
Cameo |
Being Canadian |
Himself |
Documentary |
|
2016 |
Ghostbusters |
Taxi Driver |
CameoAlso executive producer |
2019 |
Cleanin’ Up the Town:
|
Himself |
Documentary |
2021 |
Ghostbusters: Afterlife |
Dr. Raymond Stantz |
Also executive producer |
2023 |
Zombie Town |
Len Carver |
|
2024 |
Untitled Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel |
Dr. Raymond Stantz |
Movie Clips & Actors – Dan Aykroyd – From the Movie “Sgt Bilko” – 2001 – An I’ve seen that. Clips Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd Scene: A Coronel Hall Barracks Inspection”
Movie Clips & Actors – Dan Aykroyd – From the Movie“Pearl Harbor” – 2001 – A Mustardgreens Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd Scene: As The Senior Intelligence Officer for US Pacific Fleet Offers His Recommendation for What He Thinks Is About To Go Down”
Movie Clips & Actors – Dan Aykroyd – From the Movie “Twilight Zone, The Movie” – 1983 – A Movie Clip Microcosm Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks Scene: Wanna See Something Really Scary”
Talk Shows & Actors – The WWW.ASKJIMMYCARTER.COM Show – 1996 – A Jimmy Carter Production Special – “Jimmy Carter Interviews Dan Aykroyd On His New Movie “My Fellow Americans”
Television
Year |
Title |
Role |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
1974 |
The Gift of Winter |
Goodly / Rotten / Maple |
Television short; Voice |
1975–1978 |
Coming Up Rosie |
Purvis Bickle |
32 episodes |
1975–1979 |
Saturday Night Live |
Various Roles |
97 episodes |
1976 |
The Beach Boys: It’s OK |
Cop |
Television film; also writer |
1978 |
All You Need Is Cash |
Brian Thigh |
Television film |
1986–1991 |
The Real Ghostbusters |
Creator |
|
1990 |
The Dave Thomas Comedy Show |
Various |
Episode 1.2 |
It’s Garry Shandling’s Show |
Boolie Shandling |
Episode: “Driving Miss Garry” |
|
The Earth Day Special |
Vic’s Buddy |
Special |
|
1991 |
Tales from the Crypt |
Captain Mulligan |
Episode: “Yellow” |
1994 |
The Nanny |
Repair Man |
Episode: “Sunday in the Park with Fran” |
1995 |
Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny |
Himself |
Special |
1996–2000 |
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal |
Himself (host) |
88 episodes |
1997 |
The Arrow |
Crawford Gordon |
4 episodes; also creative consultant |
Home Improvement |
Reverend Mike Weber |
Episode: “Losing My Religion” |
|
1997–1998 |
Soul Man |
Reverend Mike Weber |
25 episodes |
2000 |
Normal, Ohio |
Frank Wozniak |
Episode: “He Always Gets His Man” |
2001 |
Earth vs. the Spider |
Inspector Jack Grillo |
Television film |
History’s Mysteries |
Narrator (voice) |
Episode: “The Children’s Crusade” |
|
2002–2009 |
According to Jim |
Sergeant Danny Michalski |
5 episodes |
2006 |
Living with Fran |
Judge |
Episode: “Going Crazy with Fran” |
2009 |
Family Guy |
Himself (voice) |
Episode: “Spies Reminiscent of Us” |
2011 |
The Defenders |
Judge Max Hunter |
2 episodes |
2012 |
Happily Divorced |
Harold |
Episode: “Fran-alyze This” |
2017–2023 |
Workin’ Moms |
Kate’s Dad |
4 episodes |
2019 |
The Conners |
Buddy |
Episode: “The Preemie Monologues”[64] |
2020 |
Hotel Paranormal |
Narrator (voice) |
All episodes |
2021 |
The Simpsons |
Postage Stamp Fellow (voice) |
Episode: “The Dad-Feelings Limited” |
Talks Shows & Actors – The Rosie O’Donnell Show – Dan Aykroyd – 1997 – A Rosie O’Donnell Production Special – “Rosie O’Donnel with guest Dan Aykroyd: On Why He’s Decided To Do the Sitcom Soul Man”
Talks Shows & Actors – The Fran Drescher tawk Show – Dan Aykroyd – 2011- An iheartfranthenanny Production Special – “Fran Drescher with guest Dan Aykroyd: On Their Deep Seated Friendship….and Things Not Known About Dan Aykroyd”
Comedy & Music – Short Film – Dan Aykroyd + John Belushi + Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) – 1976 – A SURFSTYLEY4 Production Special – “John Belushi & Dan Aykroyd as Cops That Take Brian Wilson Surfing In 1976”
Talks Shows & Actors – The Arsenio Hall Show – Dan Aykroyd – 2017- A MyTalkShowHeroes Production Special – “Arsenio Hall with guest Dan Aykroyd: On The Release of His New Movie “Nothing But Trouble”
Video games
Year |
Title |
Voice role |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
2009 |
Ghostbusters: The Video Game |
Ray Stantz |
Also writer |
2010 |
Yogi Bear: The Video Game |
Yogi Bear |
|
2015 |
Lego Dimensions |
Ray Stantz |
Archive sound |
2019 |
Planet Coaster |
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2019 |
Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered |
Ray Stantz |
Also writer |
2022 |
Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed |
Ray Stantz |
Video Games & TV Ads – 2019 – Special Commercial – Dan Aykroyd for the Remastered Ghostbusters Video Game
Video Games & Animation – 2019 – Special – “Yogi Bear: Video Game – Wii Gameplay 4k 2160p (DOLPHIN) ” – With Dan Aykroyd as Yogi Bear and Justin Timberlake as Boo Boo
Video Games & Animation – 2019 – A packattack04082 Production Special – “LEGO Dimensions – Ghostbusters Adventure World Gameplay”
Guest appearances on SNL
Date |
Episode |
Host / Musical guest |
Role(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
February 13, 1988 |
Season 13, Ep. 11 |
Justine Bateman, Terence Trent D’Arby |
Bob Dole |
May 15, 1993 |
Season 18, Ep. 20 |
Kevin Kline, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon |
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March 25, 1995 |
Season 20, Ep. 16 |
John Goodman, The Tragically Hip |
Bob Dole, Elwood Blues, Irwin Mainway, Tom Snyder,Rush Limbaugh, Robert Stack, Miner |
February 7, 1998 |
Season 23, Ep. 14 |
John Goodman, Paula Cole |
Bob Dole, Elwood Blues, Irwin Mainway, Ernesto |
September 26, 1998 |
Season 24, Ep, 01 |
Cameron Diaz, The Smashing Pumpkins |
Yortuk Festrunk |
November 3, 2001 |
Season 27, Ep, 04 |
John Goodman, Ja Rule |
Dr. Keith Vester, Elwood Blues, Leonard Pinth-Garnell |
February 2, 2002 |
Season 27, Ep. 12 |
Britney Spears |
Mormon, Judge Lindenwell |
March 8, 2003 |
Season 28, Ep. 14 |
Queen Latifah, Ms. Dynamite |
Bob Dole |
May 17, 2003 |
Season 28, Ep. 20 |
Dan Aykroyd, Beyoncé |
Andrew Card, Patrick Fitzpatrick, EstebanDonnie “The Finger” Dabinski, Butch, Sam Elliott |
March 24, 2007 |
Season 32, Ep. 16 |
Peyton Manning, Carrie Underwood |
Himself |
February 14, 2009 |
Season 34, Ep. 16 |
Alec Baldwin, The Jonas Brothers |
John Boehner |
March 9, 2013 |
Season 38, Ep. 16 |
Justin Timberlake |
Himself, Yortuk Festrunk |
February 15, 2015 |
Season 40 |
40th Anniversary Special |
Super Bass-O-Matic 2150 Spokesperson, Elwood Blues |
Comedy + TV Ads – Saturday Night Live Skit – 1976 – A Saturday Night Live Production Special – “A Spokesperson (Dan Aykroyd) Advertises the Bat-O-Matic….The New Blender That Quickly Mixes All the Ingredients Needed for a Witch’s Potion, Including an Entire Bat”
Comedy Dan Aykroyd & Margo Kidder – Saturday Night Live Skit – 197 – A Saturday Night Live Production Special – “Fred Garvin: Male Prostitute”
Music & Comedy – Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi Live on SNL – 1978 – Live at the Black Rhino Club – The Blues Brothers (Jake & Elwood) – Performing “Soul Man”
Comedy – SNL Skit – With Lilly Tomlin + Jane Curtin + Gilda Radner + Laraine Newman + Dan Aykroyd – 1975 – A Saturday Night Live Production Special – “Hard Hats” – A Lilly Tomlin Teaches a Group of Female Construction Workers On How to Objectify Men
Talk Show & Actors – 1975 – Live on The Tom Snyder Show – With Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels and the cast of The Not Ready For Prime Time Players (from left: Chevy Chase , Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Gilda Radner, John Belushi and Larraine Newman) – Talking About The Premier of the New Show
In 1977, Aykroyd received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series for his collaborative work on Saturday Night Live. In 1994, he received an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Carleton University. In 1999, Aykroyd was made a Member of the Order of Canada…..and was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2002. In 2017, he was made a member of the Order of Ontario in recognition for being “one of the world’s most popular entertainers, well-known for his time on Saturday Night Live and the 1984 classic movie Ghostbusters.”
Special – Dan Aykroyd – 2023 – A METRO Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd Sips Down Memory Lane: As He Reveals His Stand-Out Drinking Moments With Celebrities”
Special – Dan Aykroyd – 2012 – A BluesBrothers2012 Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd From The Official Blues Brothers Revue Show: Remembering John Belushi 30 Years Later ”
Music & Movie – B.B. King + The Blue Brothers + Eric Clapton + Aretha Franklin + Dr. John + James Brown + Taj Mahal et al – From the Movie Blues Brothers 2000 – 2000 – A LostSongs Production Special – “The Musicians Featured In The Movie Perform “I Said A Hey Hey Yeah….Down the Mississippi To New Orleans”
Year |
Nominated work |
Accolade |
Results |
Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1977 |
Saturday Night Live |
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series (shared with other writers) |
Won |
|
1978 |
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Variety or Music |
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series (shared with other writers) |
Nominated |
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1979 |
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Program |
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy or Comedy-Variety or Music Series (shared with other writers) |
Nominated |
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1985 |
Ghostbusters |
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation |
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1989 |
Caddyshack II |
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor |
Won |
|
1990 |
Driving Miss Daisy |
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
Nominated |
|
1990 |
American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture |
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1992 |
Nothing But Trouble |
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director |
Nominated |
|
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay (shared with Peter Aykroyd) |
Nominated |
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Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor |
Won |
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1995 |
Exit to EdenNorth |
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor |
Nominated |
|
Exit to Eden |
Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Couple (shared with Rosie O’Donnell) |
Nominated |
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2002 |
Crossroads |
The Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Fake Accent: Male |
Nominated |
|
2007 |
Saturday Night Live |
TV Land Award for Favorite Elvis Impersonation (shared with John Belushi) |
Nominated |
|
2018 |
Workin’ Moms |
Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting or Guest Actor, Comedy |
Nominated |
|
2020 |
Canadian Screen Award for Best Guest Performance, Comedy |
Nominated |
Movie & Comedy – Dan Aykroyd & Eddie Murphy – From the 1983 Movie Trading Places – 2013 – A Bloomberg TV Originals Production Special – “Dan Aykroyd: Explains the End of the Movie “Trading Places” – As the Greatest Business Movie of All Time
Telling this story in video has been an extremely enjoyable experience for us here at ImaSportsPhile…..cuz the simple fact remains that we love folks who have a drive in life to make people laugh…..yep, they’re some of our favorite folks on God’s Green Earth. There is really nothing quite like a “good ole belly laugh” to heal all of those sore spots in life…..as those “good ole belly laughs” heal all the way down to the soul…..and that’s why the laugh makers are truly some of my all time favorite people…..while Dan Aykroyd was blessed with an overabundance of those abilities….cuz he was a very funny man in some very uncommon ways…..as he entered his comedic empire from the side doors and cracks n crannies of his house of humor…..while never being very conventional……but he sure could make folks laugh. As a result of having so much SNL content (100’s of hrs.) from the beginning of the show in 1975 to 1991…..which was from the start of the show to the end of the Not Ready For Prime Time Players era…..whom we consider to be the best-by-far to be the most talented comedy troupe of all time…..and for an American, way better than Monty Python. It is for this reason that ImaSportPhile is of the opinion that their legacy will far outreach the legacy of any other comedy troupe. All you have to do is watch the rare 1984 special video below, featuring two of the original cast at SNL doing a promotional film for their upcoming movie Ghostbusters…..which is justifiable evidence of our opinion. This is the freshest 38 year old movie clip we’ve ever seen…..when just for a moment, wewasn’t in 2023 and it felt very good. Everything they say about the movie is 100% true…..as they made a masterpiece and they knew it. Imagine this…..NOBODY knew HOW HUGE this film would become…..and how much of a legacy it would create. Back in 1984, it was an unexpected new movie from a bunch of young talents in Hollywood who knew their craft…..while loving what they did…..and having a great time making it. In all honesty, we are happy for EVERYONE who actually lived through this time and was fortunate enough to witness it firsthand. This film is gold…..so, where was it hiding for 40 years!?! Murray was laughing and poking fun at how successful it would be…..and it turned out to exceed even his joking expectations. This film is one of the finest pieces of promotional material we’ve ever seen…..and knowing they were hamming it up by pushing how great it was going to be…..but then again, when Aykroyd said it’s going to be the best comedy film of all time was tongue-in-cheek…..but it was…..or at least certainly a contender for the top spot of best comedy movie of all time…..plus not only did this movie deliver…..and is still generating new production content and gaining in popularity. It’s heartwarming to look back at these two absolute legends promoting a movie that is more notorious than maybe nearly any other piece of work that either ever did. All I can say is that when this video (film) ended, I felt the strain in my smiling muscles as they were extended all throughout the film…..for it is magnificent…..and these boys and their cohorts are to “blame” for some of the best comedies out there…..then, now and forever…..and it all started with the Not Ready For Prime Time Players. Can you imagine what kind of treasures of comedy would have been produced for all ages if John Belushi and Gilda Radner had lived as long as Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin and Garrett Morris?….so, we simply Thank God for our resident paranormal supernatural comedic genius…..and may he keep on keepin’ on making us laugh and entertaining us.
Movie – Official Trailer – 2023 – From the Movie “Zombie Town” – Starring Dan Aykroyd + Chevy Chase – + Madi Monroe + Marlon Kazadi + Henry Czerny
