Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Aykroyd, CM ( born July 1, 1952 in Ottawa ) is a Canadian film actor, screenwriter, and singer.
Life and career
Aykroyd attended Carleton University of Ottawa criminology and sociology. Here he joined a student theater on the first time. In 1972, he appeared in a series of 15 -minute comedy shows on at a cable TV station. Even here he was a writer and producer of his skits. Dan Aykroyd is married to Donna Dixon since 1983 and has three daughters: Danielle (* 1989), Belle (* 1993) and Stella ( * 1998).
Aykroyd became known to a wider audience when he founded with other actors the television series Saturday Night Live on NBC. Many Performers should start your career here. Dan Aykroyd also worked with John Belushi, with whom he founded the Blues Brothers Band. There followed three common LPs and a successful tour. The following film The Blues Brothers, directed by John Landis was his greatest success. Even with other colleagues from Saturday Night Live, he turned movies, such as Bill Murray, Chevy Chase and Eddie Murphy. With Bill Murray, he was in Ghostbusters - to see Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II ( 1989). This was published in 2009 Video Game Ghostbusters: The Video Game is loud Aykroyd "essentially the third movie."
But Dan Aykroyd appeared not only in film comedies. His role also included spectrum melodramas like Miss Daisy, historical films ( House of Mirth ), youth films (My Girl - My first love ) and voltage such films as Undercover cops. In 1990 he was nominated for an Oscar as best supporting actor in Miss Daisy, which won Best Film.
His only directorial effort was Valkenvania - The wonderful world of madness from 1991 Aykroyd appeared in recent years in television series (including PSI Factor ) and also worked as a film producer. . In movies it takes only minor roles, among other things, he played the father of Britney Spears in Crossroads. He also appeared in four episodes as a supporting role in James Belushi sitcom According to Jim on. Aykroyd is also the initiator and owner of Crystal Head Vodka.
His German dubbing voice is usually the by Thomas Dannenberg.