Dan Aykroyd

ActorProducerWriterDirector Jul 1 (age 73) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1974–2025 (51 year career)

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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 sketc…

Known For

Film

Ghostbusters

Ray Stantz

Film

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Art Weber

Film

The Blues Brothers

Elwood Blues

Film

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Ray Stantz

Film

50 First Dates

Dr. Keats

Film

Pearl Harbor

Captain Thurman

Film

Trading Places

Louis Winthorpe III

Film

My Girl

Harry Sultenfuss

Filmography

Acting (191)

Movies (151)

John Candy: I Like Me

2025

as Self - Mainstage Cast, The Second City

7.9

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

2025

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not

2025

as Self

7.1

You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...

2025

as Self

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

2024

as Ray Stantz

6.5

The Greatest Night in Pop

2024

as Self (archive footage)

7.9

Jim Henson Idea Man

2024

as Self (archive footage)

7.7

Zombie Town

2023

as Len Carver

4.4

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

2022

as Self (archive footage)

8.2

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

2021

as Ray Stantz

7.3

Who Saw the Men in Black

2021

as self

6.0

The Go-Go's

2021

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.2

Belushi

2020

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters

2020

as Self

6.9

Defend, Conserve, Protect

2019

as Narrator

Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh

2019

as Self

7.3

Fantastic Mr. Murray

2019

as Self - Interviewee

Ghostbusters

as Cabbie

Good Fortune

as Self

Ghostheads

as Self

Pixels

as 1982 Championship MC

Being Canadian

as Self

I Am Chris Farley

as Self

Tammy

as Don

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return

2014

as Scarecrow (voice)

6.3

Who You Gonna Call?: A Ghostbusters Retrospective

Get On Up

as Ben Bart

Time Is But a Window: Ghostbusters 2 and Beyond

2014

7.3

Behind the Candelabra

2013

as Seymour Heller

6.6

Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving

2013

as Rick Phillips

7.5

Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot

2013

as Self

5.7

WWII: Saving the Reality

2013

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Born In Chicago

as Narrator

The Campaign

as Wade Motch

Sunset Strip

as Self

Yogi Bear

as Yogi Bear (voice)

The Women of SNL

as Various (archive footage)

Presidential Reunion

as Jimmy Carter

Julie & Julia

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.7

War, Inc.

2008

as Mr. Vice President

5.5

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

2007

as Captain Phineas J. Tucker

6.1

Shortcut to Happiness

2007

as Julius Jensen

5.6

Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation

2007

as Self

Working with a Master: John Landis

2006

as Self

Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live

2005

as Self

7.6

Dan Aykroyd Unplugged On UFOs

2005

as Self

4.3

The Blues Brothers: Transposing The Music

2005

as Self

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd

2005

as Various Characters (archive footage)

8.2

Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation

2005

as Self

Saturday Night Live: The Best of John Belushi

2005

as Self / Various (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.5

Christmas with the Kranks

as Vic Frohmeyer

50 First Dates

as Dr. Keats

White Coats

as Dr. Cyrill Kipp

Ronnie Hawkins: Still Alive and Kickin

2004

as Narrator

Bright Young Things

as Lord Monomark

Toronto Rocks

as Self

The Making of ‘Sneakers’

2003

as Self

5.0

James Brown: Soul Survivor

Crossroads

as Pete Wagner

Unconditional Love

as Max Beasley

Pearl Harbor

as Captain Thurman

Evolution

as Governor Lewis

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

2001

as Chris Magruder

6.6

Earth vs. the Spider

2001

as Det. Insp. Jack Grillo

On the Nose

as Dr. Barry Davis

The House of Mirth

as Augustus 'Gus' Trenor

Loser

as Dad

Stardom

as Barry Levine

Diamonds

as Lance Agensky

Ghostbusters 1999

as Self

Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

1999

as Captain Milligan

8.7

Saturday Night Live: Christmas

1999

as Self

4.5

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special

1999

as Self

6.8

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dana Carvey

Antz

as Chip (voice)

Blues Brothers 2000

as Elwood Blues

Roswell Top Secret

as Self

Susan's Plan

as Bob

The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'

as Self

Grosse Pointe Blank

as Grocer

Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow

1997

as Crawford Gordon

6.0

The Arrow

1997

as Crawford Gordon Jr.

6.7

Rainbow

1996

as Sheriff Wyatt Hampton

Sgt. Bilko

as COL John T. Hall

My Fellow Americans

as President William Haney

Celtic Pride

as Jimmy Flaherty

Feeling Minnesota

as Det. Ben Costikyan

5.4

Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen

1996

as Quote Reader

3.8

Getting Away with Murder

1996

as Jack Lambert

4.6

Casper

1995

as Dr. Raymond Stantz (uncredited)

The Random Factor

as Dexter (voice)

Tommy Boy

as Ray Zalinsky

Canadian Bacon

as OPP Officer (uncredited)

North

as Pa Tex

Exit to Eden

as Fred Lavery

My Girl 2

as Harry Sultenfuss

The Best of the Blues Brothers

1994

as Elwood Blues / Himself

A Century of Cinema

as Self

Coneheads

as Beldar

Sneakers

as Mother

Chaplin

as Mack Sennett

Two-Fisted Tales

as Captain Miligan

This Is My Life

as Arnold Moss

My Girl

as Harry Sultenfuss

Nothing But Trouble

as Judge Alvin 'J.P' Valkenheiser / Bobo

5.2

Loose Cannons

1990

as Ellis Fielding

5.0

The Earth Day Special

as Vic's Buddy

Masters of Menace

as Johnny Lewis

Seriously... Phil Collins

as Self

Life of Python

as Self

Ghostbusters II

as Ray Stantz

Driving Miss Daisy

as Boolie Werthan

Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary

1989

as Self

7.6

Caddyshack II

1988

as Captain Tom Everett

4.2

My Stepmother Is an Alien

as Steven Mills

The Great Outdoors

as Roman Craig

She's Having a Baby

as Roman (uncredited)

5.9

The Couch Trip

1988

as John W. Burns, Jr.

Dragnet

as Sgt. Joe Friday

Citizen Steve

as Chial Dushane

Into the Night

as Herb

Spies Like Us

as Austin Millbarge

We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song

1985

as Self

8.5

B.B. King: Into the Night

1985

as Self

8.2

The Best of John Belushi

1985

as Various Characters

6.0

Ghostbusters

1984

as Ray Stantz

7.5

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

1984

as Art Weber

7.3

Nothing Lasts Forever

1984

as Buck Heller

6.2

On the Scene with the Ghostbusters

1984

10.0

Trading Places

1983

as Louis Winthorpe III

7.2

Twilight Zone: The Movie

1983

as Passenger

6.5

Doctor Detroit

1983

as Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit

5.0

The Coneheads

1983

as Beldar (voice)

4.9

E.T. and Friends: Magical Movie Visitors

1982

as Beldar Conehead

7.5

It Came from Hollywood

as Self

Neighbors

as Vic

Steve Martin's Best Show Ever

1981

as Yortuk Festrunk / Irwin Mainway / Alexander Haig / Dr. Treves

The Blues Brothers

as Elwood Blues

1941

as Sgt. Frank Tree

Mr. Mike's Mondo Video

1979

as Church of Jack Lord Leader / Self

5.0

The Things We Did Last Summer

1978

as Self

4.0

The Blues Brothers Live at Winterland

1978

as Elwood Blues

6.4

The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash

1978

as Brian Thigh

6.8

Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland

1978

as Self

Love at First Sight

1977

as Roy

3.5

The Beach Boys: It's OK

1976

as Cop #1

1.0

The Beach Boys: It's OK

1976

as Cop #1

8.0

The Gift of Winter

1974

as Goodly / Rotten / Maple (voice)

5.0

Keeper of the Cup

as The Keeper

That's Amore!

Getting Lost

Television (40)

A History of the World in Six Glasses

2024

as Self

7.0

The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd

as Self - Host

Reunited Apart

as Self

Hotel Paranormal

The Movies That Made Us

2019

as Ray Stantz (archive footage)

7.2

Biography: Comedy Icons

2019

as Self

The Conners

as Buddy

Workin' Moms

as Kate's Dad

Jay Leno's Garage

as Self

The Seventies

as Self (archive footage)

7.3

Dino Hunt Canada

2015

as Narrator

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

as Self

5.9

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

Inside Comedy

as Self

The Defenders

as Judge Max Hunter

The Fran Drescher Show

2010

7.5

Second City: First Family of Comedy

2006

as Self

Living with Fran

According to Jim

as Danny Michalski

Family Guy

as Dan Aykroyd (voice)

Mark Twain Prize

as Self

Soul Man

as Rev. Mike Weber

The Arrow

as Crawford Gordon

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal

1996

6.9

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

1996

as Self

3.9

Live from the House of Blues

1995

The Nanny

1993

as Repair Man (uncredited)

8.1

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

Intimate Portrait

as Self

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992

5.4

Terry Wogan's Friday Night

as Self

Home Improvement

as Mike Weber

The Simpsons

as Postage Stamp Fellow (voice)

Tales from the Crypt

as Captain Milligan

American Masters

as Julia Child (archive footage)

7.2

MTV Video Music Awards

1984

as Self - Host

7.8

Saturday Night Live

1975

as Self - Various Characters

Saturday Night Live

as Self

Dinah!

as Self

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

Crew (28)

Movies (25)

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

2024

Executive Producer

6.5

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

2024

Original Film Writer

6.5

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

2021

Executive Producer

7.3

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

Original Film Writer

Ghostbusters

Characters

Ghostbusters

Executive Producer

Born In Chicago

Executive Producer

Blues Brothers 2000

Producer

Blues Brothers 2000

Writer

The Best of the Blues Brothers

Writer

Coneheads

Screenplay

Nothing But Trouble

Director

Nothing But Trouble

Screenplay

Ghostbusters II

Characters

Ghostbusters II

Screenplay

Dragnet

Screenplay

Citizen Steve

Director

One More Saturday Night

Executive Producer

Spies Like Us

Screenplay

Ghostbusters

Screenplay

Steve Martin's Best Show Ever

Writer

The Blues Brothers

Writer

The Beach Boys: It's OK

1976

Writer

1.0

The Beach Boys: It's OK

1976

Writer

8.0

Belushi

Executive Producer

Television (3)

The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd

Executive Producer

Soul Man

Executive Producer

Saturday Night Live

Writer