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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.
Actors: Michael Cornacchia (actor), Mark Kelly (producer), Michael Cornacchia (actor), Michael Cornacchia (producer), Mark Kelly (director), Mark Kelly (writer), Mark Kelly (actor), Mark Kelly (actor), Brooke Allison (producer), Brooke Allison (actress), Brooke Allison (actress), Molly Bryant (actress), Molly Bryant (actress), James C. Mathis III (actor), Amy Claire (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Jess Platt (miscellaneous crew), Rick Parker (miscellaneous crew), Michael Jaffe (producer), Gilda Radner (writer), Merv Griffin (producer), Lynn Josephson Delaney (miscellaneous crew), Paul Dixon (editor), Marcia Bennett (actress), Ernest Chambers (producer), Howard Braunstein (producer), Karen Robinson (actress), Gilda Radner (actress), George Wyner (actor), Jane Luk (actress), Pamela Hackwell (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: The story of comedienne 'Gilda Radner' (qv), based on her autobiography. Covered are her years as part of the original cast of _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv), her marriage to actor/director 'Gene Wilder' (qv) and her battle with ovarian cancer, to which she succumbed in 1989.
Keywords: based-on-book, character-name-in-title, televisionActors: Lucinda Jenney (actress), Basil Poledouris (composer), Clyde Kusatsu (actor), J.C. Quinn (actor), Alex Rocco (actor), Dakin Matthews (actor), J.T. Walsh (actor), Ned Bellamy (actor), Matthew Faison (actor), Tom Bower (actor), Paul Ben-Victor (actor), Blake Clark (actor), Michael Chiklis (actor), Edward S. Feldman (producer), Patti D'Arbanville (actress),
Plot: We open up on the evening of March 5, 1982, with the dead body of John Belushi being reeled into a morgue. Suddenly, he awakens as if nothing had happened to him, and is about to undergo an autopsy. Frightened and confused, John goes back to retrace his steps, and find out what went wrong with his life. Meanwhile, journalist Bob Woodward researches Belushi's life as he prepares to write a book about the late comic actor. The story climaxes with Woodward directly conversing with Belushi during the actor's dying moments.
Keywords: 1970s, 1980s, actor, actress, angel, autopsy, baseball, based-on-book, beach, behind-the-scenes