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Dan Aykroyd

Age: 57
Height: 6' 1"

Birth Place: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Born: Jul. 1st, 1952

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Dan Aykroyd's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Saturday Night Live	Various
Final 24	Dan Aykroyd
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal	Dan Aykroyd
Soul Man	Rev. Mike Weber
The Dave Thomas Comedy Show	Dan Aykroyd

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Dan Aykroyd attended Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada (1969), where he majored in Criminology and Sociology. He dropped out to work with Second City Stage Troupe in Toronto and started his acting career at Carleton University with Sock'n'Buskin, the campus theater/drama club. Married to Donna Dixon (I), he has two daughters. His parents are named Peter and Lorraine and his brother Peter Aykroyd is a psychic researcher. Dan received an honorary Doctorate from Carleton University in 1994.

TRIVIA:

Supports MUFON, a UFO study group.
A police buff, he rides an Ontario Provincial Police motorcycle, collects police badges, sometimes rides shotgun with detectives in squad cars, and owns a business in partnership with several Toronto police officers.
Is part owner of a company that owns the exclusive distribution rights to Patron tequila for the entire country of Canada. Is now also distilling a vodka called "Crystal Head" to be bottled in a skull-shaped glass bottle.
Spends every Canada Day (July 1, also his birthday) performing some sort of civic duty in Kingston, Ontario and one year was appointed a Citizenship Judge where he swore in some immigrants as Canadian citizens.
Many sources state that he was married in the 1970s to a woman named Maureen Lewis and had three sons (Mark, Lloyd and Oscar). However, the marriage never occurred and the three kids never existed. What happened was that before Aykroyd became famous, he filled out a questionnaire from the publishers of Who's Who and made up a phony biography complete with a wife and kids.
Roman Catholic of English and French extraction. On his father's side, he can trace his ancestry to the 15th century.
His original idea for _Ghost Busters (1984)_ (qv) was set in the future, where an army of Ghostbusters fought hordes of ghosts.
Is ambidextrous, as is evident by his writing left-handed during the examination scene in _Spies Like Us (1985)_ (qv).