Dan Aykroyd
Actor
- Saturday Night Live (TV Series) (SNL) (1975-1976)
- Feat. Richard Pryor, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore…
- The legendary, long–running NBC variety show, responsible for incubating the careers of every major American comedian since 1975. Original cast…
- 1941 (1979)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Toshiro Mifune
- The dir.’s only real commercial failure, this loose slapstick comedy, set in a Californian seaside town visited by a Japanese submarine in 1941,…
- Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
- Dir. Michael O'Donoghue
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Carrie Fisher…
- Notorious spoof of the Italian schockumentaries is the brain child of Saturday Night Live's oddball genius Michael O'Donoghue.
Originally…
- Blues Brothers, The (1980)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Carrie Fisher
- Smash comedy with great soul music and epic sight–gags.
- Neighbors (Neighbours) (1981)
- Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Cathy Moriarty
- Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi bicker over the back–fence in this suburban comedy.
- Trading Places (1983)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Don Ameche…
- A sturdy comic conceit – for a bet, two interfering millionaires swap the lives of a rich man (Dan Aykroyd) and a poor man (Eddie Murphy) – makes…
- Twilight Zone - The Movie (1983)
- Dir. John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante
Feat. John Lithgow, Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks…
- Big–screen homage to the classic 60s TV–series, features four segments of varying (though often effective) creepiness, helmed by…
- Doctor Detroit (1983)
- Dir. Michael Pressman
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Howard Hesseman, Donna Dixon
- Under–the–radar 80's comedy sees Aykroyd play a mild–mannered professor of literature who accidentally gets involved with four high…
- Ghostbusters (1984)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver…
- Blockbuster supernatural comedy follows the lives of three flaky paranormal investigators who find themselves in countless gooey situations. The…
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Roshan Seth…
- The second in the Indiana Jones trilogy follows further outlandish exploits of the intrepid archeologist.
- Spies Like Us (1985)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd
- Sending up the spy–caper genre, this piece of Chevy Chase–Dan Aykroyd fluff is amusing enough. Filled with numerous cameos by film…
- Into the Night (1985)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Goldblum, Dan Aykroyd…
- Good–natured chase flick with Pfeiffer as a mysterious woman pursued by hired assassins and secret police. Film buffs will delight in a…
- Dragnet (1987)
- Dir. Tom Mankiewicz
Feat. Tom Hanks, Dan Aykroyd, Christopher Plummer…
- Amiably silly buddy–cop comedy that both parodies and pays homage to television crime drama of the 1950s and 60s. Dan Aykroyd plays the "old…
- Couch Trip, The (1988)
- Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon…
- Aykroyd plays a mental patient on the loose in Los Angeles masquerading as a renowned psychiatrist. Agreeably sends up Hollywood's therapy obsessions…
- Great Outdoors, The (1988)
- Dir. Howard Deutch
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Annette Bening…
- Dan Akroyd and John Candy are brothers–in–law who ruin each other's family vacation in this John Hughes production which exemplifies…
- Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd
- Oscar–winning adaptation of Albert Uhry's stage play charting the 25–year relationship between a crotchety Southern woman and her black…
- Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
- Dir. Ivan Reitman
Feat. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver…
- A cash–in for sure, but as much fun as the original, with the paranormal pests here thriving on all the "bad vibes" of grumpy Manhattanites.…
- Loose Cannons (1990)
- Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Gene Hackman, Dom DeLuise…
- Clunky buddy cop comedy has Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd teaming up to fight crime, only one of them suffers from split personality disorder.
- My Girl (1991)
- Dir. Howard Zieff
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin…
- In the summer of '72, pint–sized Macauley Culkin meets the girl of his innocent dreams, who comes to learn the hard facts about love and death.…
- Sneakers (1992)
- Dir. Phil Alden Robinson
Feat. Robert Redford, Ben Kingsley, Sidney Poitier…
- This reworks the spy–caper genre to dazzling effect as an endearing team of security crackpots attempt to outwit bad egg Ben Kingsley whose…
- Saturday Night Live - 15th Anniversary Special (1992)
- Feat. Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks…
- Compilation of some of the best sketches from the first fifteen years of the US TV–show 'Saturday Night Live'. This programme was a training…
- Coneheads (1993)
- Dir. Steve Barron
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin
- Slightly strained attempt at stretching a five–minute sketch idea with its one–note 'alien' novelty. Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin reprise…
- Exit to Eden (1994)
- Dir. Garry Marshall
Feat. Dana Delany, Paul Mercurio, Rosie O'Donnell…
- Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell are cops assigned to an undercover mission on a sex–fantasy island. Based on a lewd Anne Rice novel, its…
- My Girl 2 (1994)
- Dir. Howard Zieff
Feat. Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Anna Chlumsky
- Reasonable sequel runs the gamut of problems that the onset of womanhood brings to Anna Chlumsky and her folks. Tailored to please those caught in…
- Tommy Boy (1995)
- Dir. Peter Segal
Feat. Chris Farley, David Spade, Brian Dennehy…
- The apex of stout American comic Farley's short career, as a small town saviour struggling to keep to an auto–parts factory open. Padded out…
- Feeling Minnesota (1996)
- Dir. Steve Baigelman
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz, Vincent D'Onofrio…
- Another in a line of sorry tales of violence, aimlessness and broken dreams, this represents everything that was bad about independent (American)…
- My Fellow Americans (1996)
- Dir. Peter Segal
Feat. Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd
- Fanciful political comedy supposes two foul–mouthed, grumpy old ex–Presidents (Jack Lemmon, James Garner) framed and on the run from…
- Sgt. Bilko (1996)
- Dir. Jonathan Lynn
Feat. Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, Phil Hartman
- Comedy with Steve Martin as a Sergeant in charge of the motor pool of an army base, who exploits his position by carrying out various scams. Adapted…
- Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)
- Dir. George Armitage
Feat. John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd…
- Sporting a sideways sense of humour, this sardonic comedy has likeable, babbling hitman John Cusack shyly fronting up to his 10–year highschool…
- Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
- Dir. John Landis
Feat. John Goodman, Dan Aykroyd, Evan Bonifant
- Belated, extraneous sequel to the 1980 cult 'classic' with John Goodman filling in the XXL trousers of the very late John Belushi. (Alas, the…