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.

Aykroyd educated Belushi on the finer points of blues music and, with a little encouragement from then-SNL music director Paul Shaffer, it led to the creation of their Blues Brothers characters.

Other regularly appearing celebrities include film writer / director Spike Lee, attorney Alan Dershowitz, comedians Dan Aykroyd and James Belushi, politico Vernon Jordan, and television news reporters Diane Sawyer, former Ambassador and President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, William H. Luers and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

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.

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.

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 pitched his story to director / producer Ivan Reitman, who liked the basic idea but immediately saw the budgetary impossibilities demanded by Aykroyd's first draft.

Shore wrote the music for Canadian magician Doug Henning's magical / musical Spellbound in 1974, and from 1975 until 1980, he was the musical director for Lorne Michaels ' hugely influential late-night NBC comedy show Saturday Night Live appearing in many musical sketches, including Howard Shore and His All-Nurse Band, and dressed as a beekeeper for a John Belushi / Dan Aykroyd performance of the Slim Harpo classic I'm a King Bee.

They witness an encounter between their managing director — the well-mannered and educated Louis Winthorpe III ( Dan Aykroyd ), engaged to the Dukes ' grand-niece Penelope ( Kristin Holby )— and a poor street hustler named Billy Ray Valentine ( Eddie Murphy ); Valentine is arrested at Winthorpe's insistence because of a suspected robbery attempt.

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.

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

* 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 ).

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.

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.

It starred Demi Moore, Chevy Chase, John Candy and Aykroyd sporting an oddly phallic prosthetic nose.

" ( 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.

It was later used in the film Blues Brothers 2000 ( 1998 ), where it was played during a scene where Elwood Blues ( Dan Aykroyd ) and Mack ( John Goodman ) leave two members of the Russian mob unconscious in an alley.

Over five hundred people attended his funeral, many of the actors and comedians who had worked with him on Saturday Night Live and on film including Phil Hartman ( who would die five months later ), Adam Sandler, Brendan Fraser, Joe Mantegna, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Buscemi, Mike Myers, Christopher Walken, John Goodman, Eugene Levy, George Wendt, Norm Macdonald, Holly Wortell, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, Tim Meadows, and Tom Arnold.

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

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.

This is an EP Release is the RIAA Gold certified second Digital Underground release, from which two songs, " Tie the Knot " and " Same Song " were featured in the film Nothing But Trouble starring Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, and John Candy.

Directed by John Landis, the film featured Dan Aykroyd and John Goodman, with cameos by many musicians.

The earliest of these was the Blues Brothers, the dark-suited alter egos of Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, which spawned two movies and an actual blues record.

This term was popularized by a Saturday Night Live sketch where Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi respectively impersonated the younger and older versions of Elvis.

He has interviewed singers Crystal Gayle, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Eric Burdon and Gordon Lightfoot, comedian George Carlin, writer Dean Koontz, hard science fiction writer Greg Bear, X-Files Writer / Creator Chris Carter, TV talk host Regis Philbin, Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy, actor Dan Aykroyd, former Luftwaffe pilot Bruno Stolle, actress Jane Seymour, actress Ellen Muth, actor and TV host Robert Stack, human rights lawyer John Loftus, legendary disc jockey Casey Kasem and frequent guests physicist Michio Kaku and SETI astronomers Seth Shostak and H. Paul Shuch.

In 1979, Landis co-wrote and directed The Blues Brothers, a comedy starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd.

Spies Like Us is a 1985 American comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, and Donna Dixon.

Some actors or directors who have started their early careers in Canada include: David Cronenberg, John Candy, Lorne Michaels, Dan Aykroyd, Michael J.

Cameo appearances include: John Candy and Dan Aykroyd from the John Hughes film, The Great Outdoors, and Bill Murray from the set of the non-Hughes film, Scrooged.

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

Aykroyd still performs as Elwood back with Belushi's younger brother James Belushi, who plays " Brother Zee " on stage.

Blues Brothers 2000 resurfaces 18 years after The Blues Brothers with Elwood Blues ( Dan Aykroyd ) being released from prison, this time a rather high-tech private prison rather than the old Illinois state prison depicted in the first film.

* Dan Aykroyd as Elwood J. Blues – harmonica and vocals

In it, a 1974 Monaco which was formerly a Mount Prospect, Illinois police cruiser is purchased by Elwood Blues ( Dan Aykroyd ) and used as the brothers ' transportation.

During his monologue, he did a musical bit with James Belushi that was similar to the Blues Brothers, but neither Aykroyd nor Belushi donned the famous black suit and sunglasses.

According to Aykroyd, it was his first meeting with Belushi that helped spark their popular Blues Brothers act.

Belushi and Aykroyd became fixtures at the recording studio, while fellow Blues Brother Steve Cropper called Cherokee his producing home.

In 1992, Aykroyd, along with many other notable music and Hollywood personalities, founded the House of 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.

Phoenix was an investor in the original House of Blues ( founded by his good friend and Sneakers co-star Dan Aykroyd ) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which opened its doors to the public after serving a group of homeless people on Thanksgiving Day 1992 .< ref >

" 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 Blues Brothers ' personas and stage act were influenced by Sam & Dave, according to an April 1988 interview with Aykroyd in the Chicago Sun-Times.