Devo also contributed two songs, " Theme from Doctor Detroit " and " Luv-Luv " to the 1983 Dan Aykroyd film Doctor Detroit, and produced a music video for " Theme from Doctor Detroit " featuring clips from the film with live action segments.

Had I lived in a different town I don't think that this would have happened, because it was just the confluence of educated government workers, and then also all the colleges in the area, Ottawa University, Carleton, and all the schools — these people were interested in blues culture .< ref > Still on a mission from God ; interview with Dan Aykroyd by Roger Gatchet, May 18, 2007, www. austinsound. net.

Aykroyd also contributes his voice to the weekly House of Blues Radio Hour, which he hosts in the character of Elwood Delaney aka Elwood Blues.

Other films that starred Aykroyd in the 1990s included Exit to Eden, Blues Brothers 2000, and Getting Away with Murder ; these were also poorly received.

In 2009, Aykroyd along with Harold Ramis, wrote and appeared in Ghostbusters: The Video Game, which also featured Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, William Atherton, and Brian Doyle-Murray.

On March 20, 2012, Aykroyd said he is about to work on a script for a comedy that would also star Chevy Chase.

Other than Spiritualism, Aykroyd is also interested in various other aspects of the paranormal, particularly ufology.

Aykroyd also read the introduction for the audio version of the book.

Cropper and Dunn, along with drummer Willie Hall, also appeared in the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers starring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.

" Soul Man " was used as the title and title track in the 1986 movie featuring C. Thomas Howell, and also the 1997 – 1998 television series featuring Dan Aykroyd.

Willow was also nominated for two Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Screenplay, which lost to Cocktail and Worst Supporting Actor for Billy Barty, who lost to Dan Aykroyd for Caddyshack II.

Sagal also provided the vocals for " Loose Cannons ", the theme song for the movie featuring Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd in 1990.

Shore also suggested the name for The Blues Brothers to Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.

* Saturday Night Live, produced by Canadian Lorne Michaels and also featuring Paul Shaffer and Dan Aykroyd, premieres in the United States.

Columbia Pictures expressed serious interest in My Girl 3 ( also known as Still My Girl ) and a script has been in development since 2003, according to series costar Dan Aykroyd.

" She, again, also commended the cast by calling it " well-chosen ", commenting on Murphy and Aykroyd as " the two actors best suited ", stating that the Duke brothers were " played delightfully " by Ameche and Bellamy and — concluding that " the supporting cast is also quite good "— praising Curtis for managing " to turn a hard-edged, miniskirted prostitute into a character of unexpected charm.

Co-written by Dave Thomas and Paul Flaherty, Flaherty was also going to direct, and Dan Aykroyd was on board to play the part of friend Rick Ripple.

Dan Aykroyd, Lauren Bacall, Esther Rolle, John Heard, Wilford Brimley, Bradley Whitford and Jeff Yagher also appear in supporting performances.

* A church that worships Jack Lord as the one true god ( also featuring Dan Aykroyd.

The film also features cameos from Idle's fellow Python Michael Palin, several SNL cast members including Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Dan Aykroyd ( as well as SNL writers Al Franken and Tom Davis ), Bianca Jagger as Dirk McQuickly's wife Martini, Ronnie Wood as a Hells Angel, and Mick Jagger, Paul Simon and Roger McGough as themselves.

He reunited with Cropper as a member of Levon Helm's RCO All Stars and also displayed his quirky Southern humor making two movies with Cropper, former Stax drummer Willie Hall, and Dan Aykroyd, as a member of The Blues Brothers band.

Dan Aykroyd and wife Donna Dixon, a native of Northern Virginia, frequent the parade, and also own a summer house in Winchester, which they visit often.

She has also written two songs for the upcoming animated film Dorothy of Oz, starring Lea Michele and Dan Aykroyd, set for release in early 2012.

In 1994, Aykroyd received an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from Carleton University.

Dan Aykroyd was originally scheduled to present this honour, but inexplicably cancelled several days before the awards ceremony.

In 1997, Aykroyd starred in a short-lived sitcom on ABC called Soul Man.

Partly for this reason, in 1997 the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, then called the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, awarded Aykroyd a " Snuffed Candle " award, for " contributing to the public's lack of understanding of the methods of scientific inquiry.

" Later in the film, when the brothers are driving rapidly through Chicago, Elwood ( Dan Aykroyd ) comments " If my estimations are correct, we should be very close to the Honorable Richard J. Daley Plaza.

Aykroyd described himself ( in a radio interview with Terry Gross ) as having mild Tourette syndrome that was successfully treated with therapy when he was a preteen, as well as mild Asperger syndrome.

Playing on a stereotype of his famous TV role, he wore the trademark fedora and black suit when he made an appearance as guest host of a 1977 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live that included a spoof of Highway Patrol, featuring Dan Aykroyd, a longtime fan of the original show, and one in which he portrayed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, in a humorous send-up of Hoover's suspect sexuality.

Later in 1979 " Burke got a surprise step up to his dwindling showbiz presence when he took some of his children to see The Blues Brothers movie starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.

" Moore stated they were offered an opportunity to perform onstage with Belushi and Aykroyd on SNL but turned it down when Belushi said Sam & Dave had to perform the intro, then the Blues Brothers would take over.

The film tells the story of an upper class commodities broker ( Dan Aykroyd ) and a homeless street hustler ( Eddie Murphy ) whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate test of nature vs nurture by wealthy Duke brothers, Randolph ( Ralph Bellamy ) and Mortimer ( Don Ameche ).

SNL's strongest period of political parody before this was the 1976-1979 era, when Dan Aykroyd appeared frequently as both former U. S. President Richard Nixon ( alongside John Belushi as Henry Kissinger ), and then current President Jimmy Carter.

The film starts with a driver ( Brooks ) and his passenger ( Aykroyd ) driving very late at night, singing along to Creedence Clearwater Revival's cover of " Midnight Special " on a cassette, and the song ends when the tape breaks.

Valentine is in an ambulance when the driver ( Aykroyd ) starts playing Creedence Clearwater Revival's " Midnight Special ".

The Chambers were used as part of the location for The House of Mirth an adaptation of the novel by Edith Wharton by Terence Davies starring Gillian Anderson and Dan Aykroyd.

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.

Parodies of Popeil's infomercials were done on the comedy show Saturday Night Live by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy and the " Veg-O-Matic " may have provided comedian Gallagher inspiration for the " Sledge-O-Matic " routine since the 1980s.

Aykroyd gained fame on the American late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live, where he was a writer and the youngest cast member for its first four seasons, from 1975 to 1979.

Aykroyd and Belushi were scheduled to present the Academy Award for Visual Effects in 1982, but Belushi died only a few weeks prior to the ceremony.

Aykroyd originally wrote the role of Dr. Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters ( 1984 ) with Belushi in mind, but rewrote the part for Bill Murray after Belushi died.

Ghostbusters became a huge success for Aykroyd as a co-creator, co-writer, and one of the lead actors ; the film's inspiration came from Aykroyd's fascination with parapsychology.

Aykroyd was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 1989's Driving Miss Daisy.

In February 2007, Aykroyd revealed that he would be providing voice-acting for a Ghostbusters III CGI project, though these rumours were clarified later on, that the CGI project was a next-gen video game that was currently in production.

Aykroyd wrote the liner notes for fellow Ottawa born blues musician JW-Jones ' album Bluelisted in 2008.

In 2009, Aykroyd contributed a series of reminiscences on his upbringing in Canada for a charity album titled Dan Aykroyd's Canada.

Shaffer occasionally teamed up with the Not Ready for Prime-Time Players off the show as well, including work on Gilda Radner's highly successful Broadway show and as the musical director for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd whenever they recorded or performed as The Blues Brothers.

French director Louis Malle adapted the Abscam story into a film script entitled Moon Over Miami, with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi set to star, with Belushi playing a fictionalized version of Weinberg ; Belushi's death in March 1982 scuttled plans for the film.

Aykroyd and Ramis initially wrote the script with roles written especially for Belushi, Eddie Murphy, and John Candy ; but Belushi died during the writing of the screenplay, and neither Murphy nor Candy would commit to the movie, so Aykroyd and Ramis made some changes and polished a basic, science-fiction-oriented screenplay for their final draft.