Dan Aykroyd

**Daniel Edward Aykroyd** (born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian actor in theater and motion pictures. He also is a script writer, director and producer.

## Short biography

Aykroyd was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His parents were Peter and Lorraine Aykroyd. He studied criminology and social science at Carleton University. He dropped out to join a Toronto acting company. Later he went to the United States to pursue his acting career in movies.

Dan Aykroyd is a dedicated Blues fan. For some time he hosted a radio program. He used the alias Elwood Blues. This alias he would later use in the motion pictures The Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000. The first of these movies was co-starred by John Belushi, the second one by John Goodman.

Aykroyd is married to Donna Dixon. They are parents of 3 daughters. Dan's brother Peter Aykroyd is a researcher.

Aykroyd is a Spiritualist.

## Partial filmography

|Year|style="width:250px;"|Title|style="width:200px;"|Role|class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1977|_Love at First Sight_|Roy|||||
|rowspan=2|1979|_Mr. Mike's Mondo Video_|Jack Lord Priest / Himself||||
|_1941_|Sgt. Frank Tree||||||
|1980|__|Elwood J. Blues|Also writer||||
|1981|_Neighbors_|Vic Zeck|||||
|1982|_It Came from Hollywood_|Himself|Documentary||||
|rowspan=3|1983|_Doctor Detroit_|Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit||||
|_Trading Places_|Louis Winthorpe III||||||
|_Twilight Zone: The Movie_|Passenger / Ambulance Driver||||||
|rowspan=3|1984|_Ghostbusters_|Dr. Raymond Stantz|Also writer|||
|_Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom_|Art Weber|Cameo|||||
|_Nothing Lasts Forever_|Buck Heller||||||
|rowspan=2|1985|_Into the Night_|Herb||||
|_Spies Like Us_|Austin Millbarge|rowspan=2|Also writer||||
|1987|_Dragnet_|Sgt. Joe Friday|||||
|rowspan=4|1988|__|John W. Burns, Jr.||||
|__|Roman Craig||||||
|_Caddyshack II_|Capt. Tom Everett||||||
|_My Stepmother Is an Alien_|Steven Mills||||||
|rowspan=2|1989|_Driving Miss Daisy_|Boolie Werthan||||
|_Ghostbusters II_|Dr. Raymond Stantz|Also writer|||||
|rowspan=2|1990|_Loose Cannons_|Ellis Fielding||||
|_Masters of Menace_|Johnny Lewis||||||
|rowspan=2|1991|_My Girl_|Harry Sultenfuss||||
|_Nothing but Trouble_|Judge Alvin 'J.P' Valkenheiser/Bobo|Also writer and director|||||
|rowspan=3|1992|_Chaplin_|Mack Sennett||||
|_Sneakers_|Mother||||||
|_This Is My Life_|Arnold Moss||||||
|1993|_Coneheads_|Beldar Conehead|Also writer||||
|rowspan=4|1994|__|Himself|Documentary|||
|_Exit to Eden_|Fred Lavery||||||
|_My Girl 2_|Harry Sultenfuss||||||
|_North_|Pa Tex||||||
|rowspan=4|1995|_Canadian Bacon_|OPP Officer|Uncredited cameo|||
|_Casper_|Dr. Raymond Stantz|Uncredited cameo|||||
|__|Dexter|Voice role|||||
|_Tommy Boy_|Ray Zalinsky||||||
|rowspan=6|1996|_Rainbow_|Sheriff Wyatt Hampton||||
|_Celtic Pride_|Jimmy Flaherty||||||
|_Feeling Minnesota_|Det. Ben Costikyan||||||
|_My Fellow Americans_|President William Haney||||||
|_Getting Away with Murder_|Jack Lambert||||||
|_Sgt. Bilko_|Colonel John T. Hall||||||
|1997|_Grosse Pointe Blank_|Grocer|||||
|rowspan=3|1998|_Antz_|Chip|Voice role|||
|_Blues Brothers 2000_|Elwood J. Blues|Also writer and producer|||||
|_Susan's Plan_|Bob||||||
|1999|_Diamonds_|Lance Agensky|||||
|rowspan=3|2000|__|Gus Trenor||||
|_Loser_|Dad||||||
|_Stardom_|Barry Levine||||||
|rowspan=5|2001|__|Chris Magruder||||
|_Evolution_|Governor Lewis||||||
|__|Himself|Documentary|||||
|_On the Nose_|Dr. Barry Davis||||||
|_Pearl Harbor_|Capt. Thurman||||||
|rowspan=2|2002|_Crossroads_|Pete Wagner||||
|_Unconditional Love_|Max Beasly||||||
|rowspan=2|2003|_Bright Young Things_|Lord Monomark||||
|_Shortcut to Happiness_|Julius Jenson||||||
|rowspan=3|2004|_Christmas with the Kranks_|Vic Frohmeyer||||
|_50 First Dates_|Dr. Joseph Keats||||||
|_Intern Academy_|Dr. Cyrill Kipp||||||
|2007|_I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry_|Captain Phineas Tucker|||||
|2008|_War, Inc._|Mr. Vice President|||||
|2010|_Yogi Bear_|Yogi Bear|Voice role||||
|rowspan=2|2012|_The Campaign_|Wade Motch||||
|_The Ultimate Sacrifice_|Narrator|Voice Documentary|||||
|2013|_Behind the Candelabra_|Seymour Heller|||||
|rowspan=3|2014|_Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return_|Scarecrow|Voice role|||
|_Tammy_|Don||||||
|_Get on Up_|Ben Bart||||||
|2015|_Pixels_|1982 Championship MC|Cameo||||
|2016|_Ghostbusters_|Taxi Driver|Cameo Also executive producer||||
|2020|_Ghostbusters 2020_|Dr. Raymond Stantz|_Post-production_||||

### As producer

- Soul Man (1997) TV series (supervising producer)
- Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)

### As director

- Nothing But Trouble (1991)

### As writer

- Saturday Night Live (TV series)
- The Blues Brothers (1980)
- Ghostbusters (1984)
- Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)

## Infobox (comedian)

- **name**: Dan Aykroyd
- **image**: Dan Aykroyd cropped.jpg
- **caption**: Aykroyd in 2009
- **birth name**: Daniel Edward Aykroyd
- **birth place**: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- **nationality**: Canadian
- **medium**: Film, stage, television
- **active**: 1971–present
- **children**: 3; including Vera Sola
- **relatives**: Peter Aykroyd (brother)