Dan Aykroyd, Writer: Ghostbusters. Daniel Edward Aykroyd was born on July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to Lorraine Hélène (Gougeon), a secretary from a French-Canadian family, and Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civil engineer who advised prime minister Pierre Trudeau. He grew up in Ottawa, Canada. His father was a diplomat (and so Aykroyd has lived in different places including Libya and the Netherlands). He is an alumnus of Carleton University in Ottawa.
Aykroyd began his career as a writer with the Canadian comedy show “The Hart and Lorne Terrific Hour” (1970). He moved to the USA in 1973 and appeared on “Saturday Night Live” (1975) (with John Belushi) for five seasons starting in 1975. The pair went on to co-star in the hit comedy “The Blues Brothers” (1980), which won Aykroyd a Grammy for Best Comedy Recording. He also starred in “Ghostbusters” (1984), which he co-wrote with Harold Ramis and director Ivan Reitman; “Ghostbusters II” (1989); “Driving Miss Daisy” (1989) with
Dan Aykroyd is a Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter and musician, who was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live. He wrote and performed in Ghostbusters, and Dr. Detroit, and Blues Brothers 2000. He starred in such films as Trading Places (1983), Spies Like Us (1985), The Great Outdoors (1988), Caddyshack II (1988), My Girl (1991), Loose Cannons (1990), Nothing But Trouble (1991) and My Fellow Americans (1996). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Driving Miss Daisy.
Aykroyd is also a successful businessman, having co-founded the House of Blues chain of music venues and the Crystal Head Vodka brand. He has been nominated for 12 Primetime Emmy Awards
Dan Aykroyd: Dan Aykroyd was born on July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), The Blues Brothers (1980) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989).
John Belushi: John Belushi was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on January 24, 1949, to Agnes Demetri (Samaras) and Adam Anastos Belushi, a restaurant owner. His father was an Albanian immigrant, from Qytezë, and his mother was also of Albanian descent. He grew up in Wheaton, where the family moved when he was six…
Dan Aykroyd. He is an amazing actor and can play a very wide range of roles. He is probably best known for his role as Ray Stanz in Ghostbusters, but he also had a great role as Elwood Blues in The Blues Brothers. I would definitely rank him as one of the best actors of all time.
Dan Aykroyd plays a man who is good at his job, but not in the way Michael Douglas plays such a man. Aykroyd plays him as a sort of sweetly retarded savant. He is incapable of understanding other people’s emotions or motives, but he has an encyclopedic knowledge of his field. His mind is like a filing cabinet full of index cards: each card corresponds to one item of information about his job. He does not seem to understand that other people have minds too; he treats them as if they are just complicated extensions of the filing cabinet itself.
It seems likely that this is how Bill Gates wrote software. He attacks problems by thinking up all the solutions and testing them one by one until he has eliminated all but the best. Real people, however, are not like that. They do not operate on a fixed repertoire of responses: they invent new ones when they need to. If you try to treat them as if they were just complicated machines, they will surprise you in ways you cannot predict, because their behavior was not in your repertoire either.
This explains why Gates’ “solutions” (or attempts at solutions) often seem so crude and insensitive: he is trying to solve other people’s problems as if
Dan Aykroyd. I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. Stephen Hawking
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams
I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen
Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while. Kin Hubbard
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. John Adams
