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.

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.

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

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.

" Two months later, Aykroyd downplayed Murray's comments, saying Stupnitsky and Eisenberg " wrote Bill the comic role of a lifetime, and the new Ghostbusters and the old are all well represented in it "; they wrote a " strong first draft " that Aykroyd and Ramis would work on.

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.

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

He grew up in the Canadian capital, where his father, Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

Vada's father, Harry Sultenfuss ( Dan Aykroyd ), is an awkward widower who does not seem to understand his daughter, constantly ignoring her as a result.

By this time, her father Harry ( Dan Aykroyd ) is married to Shelly DeVoto ( Jamie Lee Curtis ), who is now pregnant, her Uncle Phil ( Richard Masur ) now lives in Los Angeles, and her grandmother has died.

* Harry Sultenfuss – Dan Aykroyd: Vada's father who runs a funeral parlour.

Lucy, however, leaves without the permission of her father Pete ( Dan Aykroyd ), who wakes up the next day to find his daughter is gone.

The Coneheads is a sketch on Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) which originated on the January 15, 1977, episode, and starred Dan Aykroyd as father Beldar, Jane Curtin as mother Prymaat, and Laraine Newman as daughter Connie.

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 was born on July 1, 1952, at the Ottawa General Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Aykroyd was born with syndactyly, or webbed toes, which was revealed in the movie Mr. Mike's Mondo Video and in a short film on Saturday Night Live titled " Don't Look Back In Anger.

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 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.

In later decades, Aykroyd made occasional guest appearances and unannounced cameos on Saturday Night Live, often impersonating the American politician Bob Dole.

When they met in a club Aykroyd frequented, Aykroyd put on a blues record to play in the background, and it stimulated a fascination with blues in Belushi, who was primarily a fan of heavy rock bands at the time.

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.

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

Aykroyd ( right ) on the set of The Great Outdoors ( film ) | The Great Outdoors, 1987

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.

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

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.

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

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

In 2005, Aykroyd produced a DVD titled, Dan Aykroyd: Unplugged on UFOs.

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.

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.

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.

Concurrent with his work in Saturday Night Live, Aykroyd played the role of Purvis Bickle, lift operator at the fictitious office block 99 Sumach Street in the CBC Television series Coming Up Rosie.

" 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.

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.

The series is hosted by Dan Aykroyd who presents dramatic stories inspired by the paranormal investigations of the " Office of Scientific Investigation and Research " ( O. S. I. R.

In addition, the series usually featured big-name guest stars ( John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Martin Short and Catherine O ' Hara ) Thomas knew from The Second City and other previous projects — although the musical guest for the series finale was actually a fictionalized version of Johnny Cash played by Dave himself.

* Soul Man ( TV series ), a sitcom starring Dan Aykroyd

Raymond " Ray " Stantz, Ph. D., is a fictional scientist and member of the Ghostbusters, appearing in the films Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, and Casper ( played by Dan Aykroyd ) and in the animated television series The Real Ghostbusters ( voiced by Frank Welker ).

Furthermore, since the events of the first film sequel, Zeddemore has earned a Doctorate and is now addressed as " Doctor " along with his colleagues ( this is a possible callback by series co-creator Dan Aykroyd, to the film Spies Like Us.

Apart from Baywatch, Paul is known for movies such as Paper Dolls ( 1982 ) with Darryl Hannah, Christine ( 1983 ), based on the book by Stephen King ; the bicycle-racing film American Flyers ( 1985 ) with Kevin Costner and the film parody of the classic television series Dragnet starring Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd.

* Dragnet ( 1987 film ), a parody of the TV series starring Dan Aykroyd

Dan Aykroyd, who played the building superintendent, appeared in this series concurrently with his star-making turn on Saturday Night Live.