He was featured alongside Chevy Chase and John Belushi in the Off-Broadway revue National Lampoon's Lemmings.

Afterwards it became the only Godzilla film to receive a television premiere on a major U. S network, as NBC aired it on prime time television in the summer of 1977, where it was hosted by actor John Belushi dressed in a Godzilla costume.

Godzilla vs. Megalon was given a high-profile prime-time NBC network premiere in 1977, with an introduction and bumper segments by John Belushi in a Godzilla suit also used on Saturday Night Live.

In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live, one of the first additions to the cast, and an unofficial replacement for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, who were both leaving the show.

Many of the original cast of Saturday Night Live came from The Second City and the franchise has produced such comedy stars as Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Bob Odenkirk, Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Eugene Levy, Steve Carell, Chris Farley, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.

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This image of Orbison as immovable was so associated with him it was parodied by John Belushi on Saturday Night Live, as Belushi dressed as Orbison falls over while singing " Oh, Pretty Woman ", and continues to play as his bandmates set him upright again.

The halftime show was titled " Blues Brothers Bash " and featured actors Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, and James Belushi as the Blues Brothers.

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* January 24 – John Belushi, American actor and comedian ( d. 1982 )

* March 5 – John Belushi, American actor ( b. 1949 )

" He received a writing credit for National Lampoon's Lemmings which helped launch the careers of John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest.

* In episode 13 of the third season of Saturday Night Live, a sketch entitled " Miracle in Chicago " portrays Mayor Daley ( played by John Belushi ) appearing as a ghost to a pub owner and a customer ( played respectively by Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray ).

He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers ( with John Belushi ) and Ghostbusters and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.

While Aykroyd was a close friend and partner with fellow cast member John Belushi and shared some of the same sensibilities, Aykroyd was more reserved and less self-destructive.

During a couple of his guest appearances he resurrected the Blues Brothers musical act with frequent host John Goodman in place of Belushi.

Aykroyd was good friends with John Belushi.

Aykroyd used to joke that the green ghost ( who would later come to be known as " Slimer ") was " the ghost of John Belushi ," based on the similar party animal personality.

" ( The two had co-starred in the film Spies Like Us, another film in which Aykroyd had hopes, which Belushi's death had dashed, that John Belushi would co-star with him.

Actors appearing in the film included Saturday Night Lives John Belushi, Bill Murray and Gilda Radner, as well as George Harrison and Mick Jagger.

On March 5, 1982, John Belushi died of a drug overdose in Los Angeles, California, and was buried four days later in Abel's Hill Cemetery in Chilmark.

A performance by Fear on the 1981 Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live was cut short when slam dancers, including John Belushi and members of a few hardcore bands, invaded the stage, damaged studio equipment and used profanity.

Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

By the time the Gospels of Luke and Matthew were written, Jesus is portrayed as being the Son of God from the time of birth, and finally the Gospel of John portrays him as the pre-existent Word () as existing " in the beginning ".

* Back to Basics, a government policy slogan portrayed by opponents and the press as a morality campaign to compare it with a contemporaneous succession of sex scandals in John Major's government which led to the resignation of Tim Yeo and the Earl of Caithness, among others ( 1994 )

The Obverse and reverse | obverse shows George's cousin, Frederick III, Elector of Saxony | Frederick, while on the Obverse and reverse | reverse, George is portrayed face to face with the future Prince-elector | Elector, John, Elector of Saxony | John.

He was also portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in the 1997 film Amistad, and again by Ebon Moss-Bachrach in the 2008 HBO television miniseries John Adams ; the HBO series received criticism for needless historical and temporal distortions in its portrayal.

During his leadership of the Conservative Party, Major was portrayed as honest (" Honest John ") but unable to rein in the philandering and bickering within his party.

Private Eye parodied Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, age 13¾ to write The Secret Diary of John Major, age 47¾, in which Major was portrayed as a naive nincompoop ( e. g. keeping lists of his enemies in a Rymans Notebook called his " Bastards Book ") and featuring " my wife Norman " and " Mr Dr Mawhinney " as recurring characters.

* Kelsey Grammer portrayed Hoover, with John Goodman as Tolson, in the Harry Shearer comic musical J. Edgar!

In the critically acclaimed CBS miniseries Pope John Paul II, released in December 2005, Voight, who was raised a Catholic, portrayed the pontiff from the time of his election until his death, garnering an Emmy nomination for the role.

John exploited this unpopularity to set himself up as an alternative ruler with his own royal court, complete with his own justiciar, chancellor and other royal posts, and was happy to be portrayed as an alternative regent, and possibly the next king.

Revisionist histories written by John Foxe, William Tyndale and Robert Barnes portrayed John as an early Protestant hero, and John Foxe included the king in his Book of Martyrs.

The anonymous play The Troublesome Reign of King John portrayed the king as a " proto-Protestant martyr ", similar to that shown in John Bale's morality play Kynge Johan, in which John attempts to save England from the " evil agents of the Roman Church ".

He appears, portrayed by John Huston, in the 1975 film The Wind and the Lion, a fictionalization of the Perdicaris Affair in Morocco in 1904.

Steven Culp portrayed John (" Johnny ") Hay in the 1988 miniseries Lincoln, based on Vidal's book.

He moves easily between the buttoned-down demeanor that suits a police procedural story and the loose-jointed manner of his comic roles .” A repeated theme in roles he has portrayed is that of saving the world, including the characters of Ted Logan, Buddha, Neo, Johnny Mnemonic, John Constantine and Klaatu.

* In the 2007 ( TNT ) television three-part series The Company, produced by Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, and John Calley, Philby is portrayed by Tom Hollander.

He followed that film with the hugely successful World War II epic The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ) in which top-billed Marvin again portrayed an intrepid commander of a colorful group ( future stars John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown, and Donald Sutherland ) performing an almost impossible mission.

In Point Blank, an influential film for director John Boorman, he portrayed a hard-nosed criminal bent on revenge.

John Shea portrayed Lex Luthor in the 1990s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as a charming and debonair philanthropist and polymath, the owner of the massive LexCorp.

As a straight man he was often a foil to the rising ire of characters portrayed by John Cleese.