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Dan Aykroyd
Age: 57
Height: 6' 1"
Birth Place: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Born: Jul. 1st, 1952
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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:
- 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.
- His grandfather was a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- Has a "Blues Brothers" type band with 'John Belushi' (qv)'s brother, 'James Belushi' (qv).
- Though he has made numerous appearances on _"Saturday Night Live" (1975)_ (qv) since leaving the show in 1979, he did not actually host it until the 2002-2003 season finale.
- Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. pg. 32-33. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
- He used to refer to the green Slimer ghost from _Ghost Busters (1984)_ (qv) as "the ghost of 'John Belushi' (qv)", as Slimer's party animal personality reminded him very much of his friend.
- Is a victim of syndactylism, a birth defect where several digits are fused together. In _Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)_ (qv), he takes his shoes and socks off on-screen, to reveal this anomaly.
- As a child in the early 1960s, he was diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome and Asperger syndrome. The symptoms had mostly subsided by the time he was 14.
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