About
Dan Aykroyd
Overview
Dan Aykroyd, born in Ottawa, initially pursued studies in psychology, criminal sociology, and political science at Carleton University, where his comedy journey took off. He co-wrote sketches for a private cable company, igniting his passion for acting. At 20, he joined The Second City comedy troupe in Chicago and Toronto, marking the start of his career.
In 1975, Aykroyd joined "Saturday Night Live" as a founding member of the "Not Ready For Prime Time Players," crafting iconic sketches like "The Blues Brothers" with Belushi and "Two Wild and Crazy Guys" with Steve Martin. The success of "The Blues Brothers" sketch led to a full-length feature in 1980, with Aykroyd writing and producing the movie soundtrack, defying the disco and punk era.
His versatile talent shines in roles like Dr. Ray Stantz in "Ghostbusters," Jessica Tandy’s son in "Driving Miss Daisy," a single father in "My Girl," and an assassin in "Grosse Pointe Blank," showcasing both comedic and dramatic prowess.
Known for
Acting |
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| 2024 | Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire | Actor | Ray Stantz | 64 Fair |
| 2024 | The Greatest Night in Pop | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 64 Fair |
| 2023 | A Saturday Night Live Christmas Special | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2023 | NOT A GIRL - CROSSROADS: GLOBAL FAN EVENT | Actor | Pete Wagner | N/A N/A |
| 2023 | Zombie Town | Actor | Len Carver | 57 Average |
| 2022 | 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Actor | Ray Stantz | 72 Good |
| 2021 | Who Saw the Men in Black | Actor | self | 59 Average |
| 2020 | Belushi | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2020 | Hotel Paranormal | Actor | 69 Fair |
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| 2020 | Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Fantastic Mr. Murray | Actor | Self - Interviewee | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Defend, Conserve, Protect | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2019 | Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2016 | Bill Murray: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2016 | Good Fortune | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Ghostbusters | Actor | Cabbie | 54 Average |
| 2016 | Ghostheads | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Being Canadian | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2015 | I Am Chris Farley | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
| 2015 | Pixels | Actor | 1982 Championship MC | 57 Average |
| 2015 | Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special | Actor | Self / Super Bass-O-Matic 2150 Spokesperson / Elwood Blues | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Dino Hunt Canada | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2014 | Time Is But a Window: Ghostbusters 2 and Beyond | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2014 | Who You Gonna Call?: A Ghostbusters Retrospective | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2014 | Get on Up | Actor | Ben Bart | 63 Fair |
| 2014 | Tammy | Actor | Don | 54 Average |
| 2014 | Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return | Actor | Scarecrow (voice) | 60 Fair |
| 2013 | Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving | Actor | Rick Phillips | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Behind the Candelabra | Actor | Seymour Heller | 63 Fair |
| 2013 | Born In Chicago | Actor | Narrator | 58 Average |
| 2013 | Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2013 | WWII: Saving the Reality | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2012 | Steve Martin: The Television Stuff | Actor | 60 Fair |
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| 2012 | The Campaign | Actor | Wade Motch | 58 Average |
| 2012 | Sunset Strip | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Saturday Night Live Backstage | Actor | Self / Various | N/A N/A |
| 2010 | Yogi Bear | Actor | Yogi Bear (voice) | 56 Average |
| 2010 | The Women of SNL | Actor | Various (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Presidential Reunion | Actor | Jimmy Carter | 59 Average |
| 2009 | Ghostbusters (The Video Game) | Actor | Dr. Raymond Stantz (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2008 | War, Inc. | Actor | Mr. Vice President | 57 Average |
| 2007 | I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry | Actor | Captain Phineas J. Tucker | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Second City: First Family of Comedy | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2006 | Working with a Master: John Landis | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd | Actor | Various Characters (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2005 | The Blues Brothers: Transposing The Music | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | Saturday Night Live: The Best of John Belushi | Actor | Self / Various (archive footage) (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 2005 | Dan Aykroyd Unplugged On UFOs | Actor | himself | 58 Average |
| 2005 | Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Christmas with the Kranks | Actor | Vic Frohmeyer | 60 Fair |
| 2004 | Ronnie Hawkins: Still Alive and Kickin | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | White Coats | Actor | Dr. Cyrill Kipp | 58 Average |
| 2004 | 50 First Dates | Actor | Dr. Keats | 68 Fair |
| 2003 | James Brown: Soul Survivor | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2003 | Bright Young Things | Actor | Lord Monomark | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Toronto Rocks | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Shortcut to Happiness | Actor | Julius Jenson | 58 Average |
| 2003 | The Making of ‘Sneakers’ | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2002 | Unconditional Love | Actor | Max Beasley | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Crossroads | Actor | Pete Wagner | 55 Average |
| 2001 | On the Nose | Actor | Dr. Barry Davis | 58 Average |
| 2001 | Earth vs. the Spider | Actor | Det. Insp. Jack Grillo | 58 Average |
| 2001 | The Curse of the Jade Scorpion | Actor | Chris Magruder | 63 Fair |
| 2001 | Evolution | Actor | Governor Lewis | 60 Fair |
| 2001 | Pearl Harbor | Actor | Captain Thurman | 68 Fair |
| 2000 | Stardom | Actor | Barry Levine | 58 Average |
| 2000 | The House of Mirth | Actor | Augustus 'Gus' Trenor | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Loser | Actor | Dad | 56 Average |
| 1999 | Diamonds | Actor | Lance Agensky | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Saturday Night Live: Christmas | Actor | Himself | 58 Average |
| 1999 | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dana Carvey | Actor | 58 Average |
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| 1999 | Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection | Actor | Captain Milligan | 59 Average |
| 1998 | Susan's Plan | Actor | Bob | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Antz | Actor | Chip (voice) | 61 Fair |
| 1998 | The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1998 | Blues Brothers 2000 | Actor | Elwood Blues | 55 Average |
| 1998 | Roswell Top Secret | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1997 | Soul Man | Actor | Rev. Mike Weber | 70 Good |
| 1997 | Grosse Pointe Blank | Actor | Grocer | 65 Fair |
| 1997 | The Arrow | Actor | Crawford Gordon Jr. | 59 Average |
| 1997 | The Arrow | Actor | Crawford Gordon | 70 Good |
| 1997 | Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow | Actor | Crawford Gordon | 58 Average |
| 1996 | My Fellow Americans | Actor | President William Haney | 59 Average |
| 1996 | Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal | Actor | 69 Fair |
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| 1996 | Feeling Minnesota | Actor | Det. Ben Costikyan | 57 Average |
| 1996 | Rainbow | Actor | Sheriff Wyatt Hampton | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Celtic Pride | Actor | Jimmy Flaherty | 57 Average |
| 1996 | Getting Away with Murder | Actor | Jack Lambert | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Sgt. Bilko | Actor | COL John T. Hall | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen | Actor | Quote Reader | 59 Average |
| 1995 | Canadian Bacon | Actor | OPP Officer (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1995 | Casper | Actor | Dr. Raymond Stantz (uncredited) | 62 Fair |
| 1995 | Tommy Boy | Actor | Ray Zalinsky | 64 Fair |
| 1995 | The Random Factor | Actor | Dexter (voice) | 59 Average |
| 1995 | Live from the House of Blues | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1994 | Exit to Eden | Actor | Fred Lavery | 56 Average |
| 1994 | The Best of the Blues Brothers | Actor | Elwood Blues / Himself | 58 Average |
| 1994 | North | Actor | Pa Tex | 56 Average |
| 1994 | My Girl 2 | Actor | Harry Sultenfuss | 59 Average |
| 1994 | A Century of Cinema | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1993 | Coneheads | Actor | Beldar Conehead | 55 Average |
| 1992 | Chaplin | Actor | Mack Sennett | 69 Fair |
| 1992 | Sneakers | Actor | Mother | 65 Fair |
| 1992 | This Is My Life | Actor | Arnold Moss | 59 Average |
| 1992 | Two-Fisted Tales | Actor | Captain Miligan | 58 Average |
| 1991 | My Girl | Actor | Harry Sultenfuss | 71 Good |
| 1991 | Nothing but Trouble | Actor | Judge Alvin 'J.P' Valkenheiser / Bobo | 56 Average |
| 1990 | Seriously... Phil Collins | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1990 | Masters of Menace | Actor | Johnny Lewis | 58 Average |
| 1990 | The Earth Day Special | Actor | Vic's Buddy | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Life of Python | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1990 | Loose Cannons | Actor | Ellis Fielding | 57 Average |
| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | Actor | Boolie Werthan | 68 Fair |
| 1989 | Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1989 | Ghostbusters II | Actor | Ray Stantz | 65 Fair |
| 1989 | Liberian Girl | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 1988 | My Stepmother Is an Alien | Actor | Steven Mills | 57 Average |
| 1988 | Caddyshack II | Actor | Capt. Tom Everett | 54 Average |
| 1988 | The Great Outdoors | Actor | Roman Craig | 61 Fair |
| 1988 | She's Having a Baby | Actor | Roman (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1988 | The Couch Trip | Actor | John W. Burns, Jr. | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Dragnet | Actor | Sgt. Joe Friday | 59 Average |
| 1987 | Citizen Steve | Actor | Chial Dushane | 59 Average |
| 1985 | Spies Like Us | Actor | Austin Millbarge | 60 Fair |
| 1985 | The Best of John Belushi | Actor | Various characters | N/A N/A |
| 1985 | Into the Night | Actor | Herb | 61 Fair |
| 1985 | We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1985 | B.B. King: Into the Night | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 1984 | Nothing Lasts Forever | Actor | Buck Heller | 59 Average |
| 1984 | Ghostbusters | Actor | Ray Stantz | 74 Good |
| 1984 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Actor | Art Weber | 72 Good |
| 1983 | The Coneheads | Actor | Beldar (Voice) | 58 Average |
| 1983 | Twilight Zone: The Movie | Actor | Passenger | 62 Fair |
| 1983 | Trading Places | Actor | Louis Winthorpe III | 70 Good |
| 1983 | Doctor Detroit | Actor | Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit | 58 Average |
| 1982 | E.T. and Friends: Magical Movie Visitors | Actor | Beldar Conehead | 59 Average |
| 1982 | It Came from Hollywood | Actor | Himself | 58 Average |
| 1981 | Neighbors | Actor | Vic | 58 Average |
| 1981 | Steve Martin's Best Show Ever | Actor | Yortuk Festrunk / Irwin Mainway / Alexander Haig / Dr. Treves | 59 Average |
| 1980 | The Blues Brothers | Actor | Elwood Blues | 75 Good |
| 1979 | 1941 | Actor | Sgt. Frank Tree | 58 Average |
| 1979 | Mr. Mike's Mondo Video | Actor | Church of Jack Lord Leader / Self | 58 Average |
| 1978 | The Blues Brothers Live at Winterland | Actor | Elwood Blues | 59 Average |
| 1978 | Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1978 | The Things We Did Last Summer | Actor | Himself | 58 Average |
| 1978 | The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash | Actor | Brian Thigh | 60 Fair |
| 1977 | Love at First Sight | Actor | Roy | 59 Average |
| 1976 | The Beach Boys: It's OK | Actor | Cop #1 | 59 Average |
| 1976 | The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations Tour | Actor | Cop #1 | N/A N/A |
| 1974 | The Gift of Winter | Actor | Goodly / Rotten / Maple (voice) | 58 Average |
| That's Amore! | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| Godspell 2025 | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| Keeper of the Cup | Actor | The Keeper | N/A N/A |
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Directing |
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| 1991 | Nothing but Trouble | Directing | Director | 56 Average |
Writing |
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| 2024 | Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire | Writing | Original Film Writer | 64 Fair |
| 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Writing | Original Film Writer | 72 Good |
| 2016 | Ghostbusters | Writing | Characters | 54 Average |
| 1998 | Blues Brothers 2000 | Writing | Writer | 55 Average |
| 1994 | The Best of the Blues Brothers | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
| 1993 | Coneheads | Writing | Screenplay | 55 Average |
| 1991 | Nothing but Trouble | Writing | Screenplay | 56 Average |
| 1989 | Ghostbusters II Electronic Press Kit | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
| 1989 | Ghostbusters II | Writing | Screenplay | 65 Fair |
| 1989 | Ghostbusters II | Writing | Characters | 65 Fair |
| 1987 | Dragnet | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
| 1985 | Spies Like Us | Writing | Screenplay | 60 Fair |
| 1984 | Ghostbusters | Writing | Screenplay | 74 Good |
| 1981 | Steve Martin's Best Show Ever | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 1980 | The Blues Brothers | Writing | Writer | 75 Good |
| 1976 | The Beach Boys: It's OK | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
| 1976 | The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations Tour | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
Production |
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| 2024 | Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire | Production | Executive Producer | 64 Fair |
| 2021 | Ghostbusters: Afterlife | Production | Executive Producer | 72 Good |
| 2016 | Ghostbusters | Production | Executive Producer | 54 Average |
| 2013 | Born In Chicago | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Blues Brothers 2000 | Production | Producer | 55 Average |
| 1997 | Soul Man | Production | Executive Producer | 70 Good |
| 1986 | One More Saturday Night | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
| Belushi | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
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