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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 1, 1952
Place of Birth
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Also Known As
- Elwood
- Daniel Edward Aykroyd
- Danny Aykroyd
- 댄 애크로이드
- 丹·艾克洛德
- دن آیکروید
Dan Aykroyd
2.6 Popularity
Biography
Daniel Edward 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
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Self
I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not
2026
0.0
Self
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...
2025
7.8
Self - Mainstage Cast, The Second City
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
7.7
Self - SNL Cast Member 1975 - 1979 (archive footage)
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
7.8
Self (archive footage)
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
6.5
Ray Stantz
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
2024
7.9
Self (archive footage)
The Greatest Night in Pop
2024
7.0
Self
A History of the World in Six Glasses
2024
6.1
Self - Host
The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd
2023
4.4
Len Carver
Zombie Town
2023
Credits
I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not
as Self
2026
0.0
You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...
as Self
2025
0.0
John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Mainstage Cast, The Second City
2025
7.8
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self - SNL Cast Member 1975 - 1979 (archive footage)
2025
7.7
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
2024
7.8
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
as Ray Stantz
2024
6.5
The Greatest Night in Pop
as Self (archive footage)
2024
7.9
A History of the World in Six Glasses
as Self
2024
7.0
The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd
as Self - Host
2023
6.1
Zombie Town
as Len Carver
2023
4.4
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self (archive footage)
2022
8.2
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
as Ray Stantz
2021
7.3
Who Saw the Men in Black
as self
2021
6.0
The Go-Go's
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
7.2
Belushi
as Self (archive footage)
2020
6.9
Hotel Paranormal
2020
6.8
Reunited Apart
as Self
2020
5.5
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
as Self
2020
6.9
The Movies That Made Us
as Ray Stantz (archive footage)
2019
7.2
Fantastic Mr. Murray
as Self - Interviewee
2019
6.3
Defend, Conserve, Protect
as Narrator
2019
0.0
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
as Self
2019
7.3
Biography: Comedy Icons
as Self
2019
0.0
The Conners
as Buddy
2018
7.0
Good Fortune
as Self
2016
2.0
Ghostbusters
as Cabbie
2016
5.4
Ghostheads
as Self
2016
5.9
Jay Leno's Garage
as Self
2015
7.3
Being Canadian
as Self
2015
5.5
I Am Chris Farley
as Self
2015
7.1
Pixels
as 1982 Championship MC
2015
5.8
The Seventies
as Self (archive footage)
2015
7.3
Dino Hunt Canada
as Narrator
2015
0.0
Time Is But a Window: Ghostbusters 2 and Beyond
2014
7.3
Who You Gonna Call?: A Ghostbusters Retrospective
2014
8.0
Get on Up
as Ben Bart
2014
6.8
Tammy
as Don
2014
5.3
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
as Scarecrow (voice)
2014
6.3
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving
as Rick Phillips
2013
7.5
Behind the Candelabra
as Seymour Heller
2013
6.6
Born In Chicago
as Narrator
2013
8.0
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
as Self
2013
5.7
WWII: Saving the Reality
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2013
0.0
The Campaign
as Wade Motch
2012
5.8
Sunset Strip
as Self
2012
7.3
Inside Comedy
as Self
2012
6.5
Yogi Bear
as Yogi Bear (voice)
2010
5.6
The Fran Drescher Show
2010
7.5
The Women of SNL
as Various (archive footage)
2010
6.0
The Defenders
as Judge Max Hunter
2010
7.1
Presidential Reunion
as Jimmy Carter
2010
6.1
Julie & Julia
as Himself (Archive footage) (uncredited)
2009
6.7
War, Inc.
as Mr. Vice President
2008
5.5
Shortcut to Happiness
as Julius Jensen
2007
5.6
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
as Captain Phineas J. Tucker
2007
6.1
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
as Self
2007
0.0
Second City: First Family of Comedy
as Self
2006
0.0
Working with a Master: John Landis
as Self
2006
0.0
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd
as Various Characters (archive footage)
2005
8.2
The Blues Brothers: Transposing The Music
as Self
2005
0.0
Saturday Night Live: The Best of John Belushi
as Self / Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
2005
6.5
Dan Aykroyd Unplugged On UFOs
as Self
2005
4.3
Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation
as Self
2005
0.0
Living with Fran
2005
6.3
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live
as Self
2005
7.6
Christmas with the Kranks
as Vic Frohmeyer
2004
6.1
Ronnie Hawkins: Still Alive and Kickin
as Narrator
2004
0.0
White Coats
as Dr. Cyrill Kipp
2004
4.9
50 First Dates
as Dr. Keats
2004
6.9
James Brown: Soul Survivor
2003
7.5
Bright Young Things
as Lord Monomark
2003
6.2
Toronto Rocks
as Self
2003
8.0
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
as Self
2003
5.0
Unconditional Love
as Max Beasley
2002
5.9
Crossroads
as Pete Wagner
2002
5.2
On the Nose
as Dr. Barry Davis
2001
5.3
Earth vs. the Spider
as Det. Insp. Jack Grillo
2001
5.6
According to Jim
as Danny Michalski
2001
6.5
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
as Chris Magruder
2001
6.6
Evolution
as Governor Lewis
2001
6.1
Pearl Harbor
as Captain Thurman
2001
6.9
The House of Mirth
as Augustus 'Gus' Trenor
2000
6.1
Stardom
as Barry Levine
2000
5.2
Loser
as Dad
2000
5.4
Diamonds
as Lance Agensky
1999
5.1
Saturday Night Live: Christmas
as Self
1999
4.5
Ghostbusters 1999
as Self
1999
6.0
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dana Carvey
1999
6.5
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as Self
1999
6.8
Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection
as Captain Milligan
1999
8.7
Family Guy
as Dan Aykroyd (voice)
1999
7.4
Mark Twain Prize
as Self
1999
0.0
Susan's Plan
as Bob
1998
4.6
Antz
as Chip (voice)
1998
6.2
The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'
as Self
1998
5.0
Blues Brothers 2000
as Elwood Blues
1998
5.3
Roswell Top Secret
as Self
1998
5.0
Soul Man
as Rev. Mike Weber
1997
6.3
Grosse Pointe Blank
as Grocer
1997
6.9
The Arrow
as Crawford Gordon Jr.
1997
6.7
The Arrow
as Crawford Gordon
1997
7.5
Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow
as Crawford Gordon
1997
6.0
My Fellow Americans
as President William Haney
1996
6.0
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
1996
6.9
Feeling Minnesota
as Det. Ben Costikyan
1996
5.4
Rainbow
as Sheriff Wyatt Hampton
1996
3.6
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self
1996
3.9
Celtic Pride
as Jimmy Flaherty
1996
5.3
Getting Away with Murder
as Jack Lambert
1996
4.6
Sgt. Bilko
as COL John T. Hall
1996
5.9
🎬
Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
as Quote Reader
1996
3.8
Canadian Bacon
as OPP Officer (uncredited)
1995
5.7
Casper
as Dr. Raymond Stantz (uncredited)
1995
6.3
Tommy Boy
as Ray Zalinsky
1995
6.8
🎬
The Random Factor
as Dexter (voice)
1995
4.7
🎬
Live from the House of Blues
1995
0.0
Exit to Eden
as Fred Lavery
1994
4.1
The Best of the Blues Brothers
as Elwood Blues / Himself
1994
5.8
North
as Pa Tex
1994
5.0
My Girl 2
as Harry Sultenfuss
1994
6.0
A Century of Cinema
as Self
1994
8.0
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
4.5
The Nanny
as Repair Man (uncredited)
1993
8.1
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
Coneheads
as Beldar
1993
5.5
Chaplin
as Mack Sennett
1992
7.4
🎬
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
as Self
1992
5.0
Sneakers
as Mother
1992
6.9
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
This Is My Life
as Arnold Moss
1992
5.9
Two-Fisted Tales
as Captain Miligan
1992
5.0
My Girl
as Harry Sultenfuss
1991
7.4
Home Improvement
as Mike Weber
1991
7.4
Nothing But Trouble
as Judge Alvin 'J.P' Valkenheiser / Bobo
1991
5.2
Seriously... Phil Collins
as Self
1990
8.0
Masters of Menace
as Johnny Lewis
1990
5.6
The Earth Day Special
as Vic's Buddy
1990
6.3
Life of Python
as Self
1990
5.3
Loose Cannons
as Ellis Fielding
1990
5.0
The Simpsons
as Postage Stamp Fellow (voice)
1989
8.0
Driving Miss Daisy
as Boolie Werthan
1989
7.2
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
as Self
1989
7.6
Ghostbusters II
as Ray Stantz
1989
6.6
Tales from the Crypt
as Captain Milligan
1989
8.0
My Stepmother Is an Alien
as Steven Mills
1988
5.7
Caddyshack II
as Captain Tom Everett
1988
4.2
The Great Outdoors
as Roman Craig
1988
6.5
She's Having a Baby
as Roman (uncredited)
1988
5.9
The Couch Trip
as John W. Burns, Jr.
1988
5.4
Dragnet
as Sgt. Joe Friday
1987
6.0
Citizen Steve
as Chial Dushane
1987
5.9
American Masters
as Julia Child (archive footage)
1986
7.5
Spies Like Us
as Austin Millbarge
1985
6.2
The Best of John Belushi
as Various Characters
1985
6.0
Into the Night
as Herb
1985
6.5
We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song
as Self
1985
8.5
B.B. King: Into the Night
as Self
1985
8.2
MTV Video Music Awards
as Self - Host
1984
7.7
Nothing Lasts Forever
as Buck Heller
1984
6.3
Ghostbusters
as Ray Stantz
1984
7.5
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
as Art Weber
1984
7.3
The Coneheads
as Beldar (voice)
1983
4.9
Twilight Zone: The Movie
as Passenger
1983
6.5
Trading Places
as Louis Winthorpe III
1983
7.2
Doctor Detroit
as Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit
1983
5.0
E.T. and Friends: Magical Movie Visitors
as Beldar Conehead
1982
7.5
It Came from Hollywood
as Self
1982
5.2
Neighbors
as Vic
1981
5.6
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever
as Yortuk Festrunk / Irwin Mainway / Alexander Haig / Dr. Treves
1981
7.5
The Blues Brothers
as Elwood Blues
1980
7.7
1941
as Sgt. Frank Tree
1979
5.8
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
as Church of Jack Lord Leader / Self
1979
5.0
The Blues Brothers Live at Winterland
as Elwood Blues
1978
6.4
Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland
as Self
1978
0.0
The Things We Did Last Summer
as Self
1978
4.0
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
as Brian Thigh
1978
6.8
Love at First Sight
as Roy
1977
3.5
The Beach Boys: It's OK
as Cop #1
1976
1.0
The Beach Boys: It's OK
as Cop #1
1976
8.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Various Characters
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self / Various (archive footage)
1975
7.0
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
The Gift of Winter
as Goodly / Rotten / Maple (voice)
1974
5.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
Keeper of the Cup
as The Keeper
N/A
0.0
🎬
That's Amore!
N/A
0.0