Daniel Edward Aykroyd (born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian actor, comedian, writer and filmmaker. Aykroyd was a writer and an original member of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" cast on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from its inception in 1975 until his departure in 1979. Aykroyd's most famous roles are as Elwood J. Blues in The Blues Brothers (1980) and Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), and Dr. Raymond "Ray" Stantz in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989). In 1990, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Boolie Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy (1989).

Filmography

• 2025John Candy: I Like Me — Self - Mainstage Cast, The Second City
• 2024An SNL Thanksgiving — (archive footage)
• 2024Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire — Ray Stantz, Original Film Writer, Executive Producer
• The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd — Self - Host, Executive Producer
• 2023Zombie Town — Len Carver
• 2021Ghostbusters: Afterlife — Ray Stantz, Original Film Writer, Executive Producer
• Hotel Paranormal
• 2019Defend, Conserve, Protect — Narrator
• The Movies That Made Us — Ray Stantz (archive footage)
• The Conners — Buddy
• Workin' Moms — Kate's Dad, Kate's Dad (voice)
• 2016Ghostbusters — Cabbie, Characters, Executive Producer
• Dino Hunt Canada — Narrator
• 2015Pixels — 1982 Championship MC
• 2014Get On Up — Ben Bart
• 2014Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return — Scarecrow (voice)
• 2014Tammy — Don
• 2014Time Is But a Window: Ghostbusters 2 and Beyond
• 2014Who You Gonna Call?: A Ghostbusters Retrospective
• 2013Behind the Candelabra — Seymour Heller
• 2013Born In Chicago — Narrator, Executive Producer
• 2013Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving — Rick Phillips
• 2012The Campaign — Wade Motch
• 2010Presidential Reunion — Jimmy Carter
• The Defenders — Judge Max Hunter
• The Fran Drescher Show
• 2010The Women of SNL — Various (archive footage)
• 2010Yogi Bear — Yogi Bear (voice)
• 2008War, Inc. — Mr. Vice President
• 2007I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry — Captain Tucker
• 2007Shortcut to Happiness — Julius Jensen
• Living with Fran
• 2005Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd — Various Characters (archive footage)
• 200450 First Dates — Dr. Keats
• 2004Christmas with the Kranks — Vic Frohmeyer
• 2004Ronnie Hawkins: Still Alive and Kickin — Narrator
• 2004White Coats — Dr. Cyrill Kipp
• 2003Bright Young Things — Lord Monomark
• 2003James Brown: Soul Survivor
• 2002Crossroads — Pete Wagner
• 2002Unconditional Love — Max Beasley
• According to Jim — Danny Michalski
• 2001Earth vs. the Spider — Det. Insp. Jack Grillo
• 2001Evolution — Governor Lewis
• 2001On the Nose — Dr. Barry Davis
• 2001Pearl Harbor — Captain Thurman
• 2001The Curse of the Jade Scorpion — Chris Magruder
• 2000Loser — Dad
• 2000Stardom — Barry Levine
• 2000The House of Mirth — Augustus 'Gus' Trenor
• 1999Diamonds — Lance Agensky
• Family Guy — Dan Aykroyd (voice)
• 1999Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dana Carvey
• 1999Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection — Captain Milligan
• 1998Antz — Chip (voice)
• 1998Blues Brothers 2000 — Elwood Blues, Writer, Producer
• 1998Susan's Plan — Bob
• 1997Grosse Pointe Blank — Grocer
• 1997Heritage Minutes: Avro Arrow — Crawford Gordon
• Soul Man — Rev. Mike Weber, Executive Producer
• 1997The Arrow — Crawford Gordon Jr.
• The Arrow — Crawford Gordon
• 1996Celtic Pride — Jimmy Flaherty
• 1996Feeling Minnesota — Det. Ben Costikyan
• 1996Getting Away with Murder — Jack Lambert
• 1996My Fellow Americans — President William Haney
• 1996Rainbow — Sheriff Wyatt Hampton
• 1996Sgt. Bilko — Colonel Hall
• 1995Canadian Bacon — OPP Officer (uncredited)
• 1995Casper — Dr. Raymond Stantz (uncredited)
• Live from the House of Blues
• 1995The Random Factor — Dexter (voice)
• 1995Tommy Boy — Ray Zalinsky
• 1994Exit to Eden — Fred Lavery
• 1994My Girl 2 — Harry Sultenfuss
• 1994North — Pa Tex
• 1993Coneheads — Beldar, Screenplay
• 1993The Best of the Blues Brothers — Elwood Blues / Self, Writer
• The Nanny — Repairman (uncredited)
• 1992Chaplin — Mack Sennett
• 1992Sneakers — Mother
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• 1992This Is My Life — Arnold Moss
• 1992Two-Fisted Tales — Captain Miligan
• Heritage Minutes — Crawford Gordon
• Home Improvement — Mike Weber
• 1991My Girl — Harry Sultenfuss
• 1991Nothing but Trouble — Judge Alvin 'J.P' Valkenheiser / Bobo, Screenplay, Director
• 1990Loose Cannons — Ellis Fielding
• 1990Masters of Menace — Johnny Lewis
• 1990The Earth Day Special — Vic's Buddy
• 1989Driving Miss Daisy — Boolie Werthan
• 1989Ghostbusters II — Dr. Raymond Stantz, Screenplay, Characters
• Tales from the Crypt — Captain Milligan
• The Simpsons — Postage Stamp Fellow (voice)
• 1988Caddyshack II — Captain Tom Everett
• 1988My Stepmother Is an Alien — Steven Mills
• 1988She's Having a Baby — Roman (uncredited)
• 1988The Couch Trip — John W. Burns, Jr.
• 1988The Great Outdoors — Roman Craig
• 1987Citizen Steve — Chial Dushane, Director
• 1987Dragnet — Sgt. Joe Friday, Screenplay
• American Masters — Julia Child (archive footage)
• 1986One More Saturday Night — Executive Producer
• The Real Ghostbusters — Creator
• 1985Into the Night — Herb
• 1985Spies Like Us — Austin Millbarge, Screenplay
• 1985The Best of John Belushi — Various Characters
• 1984Ghostbusters — Dr. Raymond Stantz, Screenplay
• 1984Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom — Art Weber
• 1984Nothing Lasts Forever — Buck Heller
• 1984On the Scene with the Ghostbusters
• 1983Doctor Detroit — Clifford Skridlow / Doctor Detroit
• 1983The Coneheads — Beldar (voice)
• 1983Trading Places — Louis Winthorpe III
• 1983Twilight Zone: The Movie — Passenger
• 1982E.T. and Friends: Magical Movie Visitors — Beldar Conehead
• 1981Neighbors — Vic
• 1981Steve Martin's Best Show Ever — Yortuk Festrunk / Irwin Mainway / Alexander Haig / Dr. Treves, Writer
• 1980The Blues Brothers — Elwood Blues, Writer
• 19791941 — Sgt. Frank Tree
• 1979Mr. Mike's Mondo Video — Church of Jack Lord Leader / Self
• 1978The Blues Brothers Live at Winterland — Elwood Blues
• 1978The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash — Brian Thigh
• 1977Love at First Sight — Roy
• 1976The Beach Boys: It's OK — Cop #1, Writer
• 1976The Beach Boys: It's OK — Cop #1, Writer
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Various Characters, Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self - Host, Self / Various (archive footage), Sen. Bob Dole (uncredited), Yortuk Festrunk (uncredited), Self - Various Characters (uncredited), Sanjaya Fan (uncredited), John Boehner (uncredited), Writer
• 1974The Gift of Winter — Goodly / Rotten / Maple (voice)
• Belushi — Executive Producer
• Getting Lost — (voice)
• Ghostbusters: Night Shift — Executive Producer
• Keeper of the Cup — The Keeper

Appearances as themselves (72)

• 2026Marty, Life Is Short — Self (archive footage)
• The Tom Green Farm — Self
• The UnBelievable: Encounters with Dan Aykroyd — Self - Host
• 2026You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution... — Self
• 2025I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not — Self
• 2025On a Mission from God: The Story of the Blues Brothers — Self
• A History of the World in Six Glasses — Self
• 2024Jim Henson Idea Man — Self (archive footage)
• 2024The Greatest Night in Pop — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Our Soho — self
• 20222022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Passing the Proton Pack — Self
• 2022Summoning the Spirit: Making Ghostbusters: Afterlife — Self
• 2021The Go-Go's — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2021Who Saw the Men in Black — self
• 2020Belushi — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters — Self
• Reunited Apart — Self
• 201931 Nights of Halloween Fan Fest — Self
• Biography: Comedy Icons — Self
• 2019Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh — Self
• 2019Fantastic Mr. Murray — Self - Interviewee
• 2016Ghostheads — Self
• 2016Good Fortune — Self
• 2015Being Canadian — Self
• 2015I Am Chris Farley — Self
• Jay Leno's Garage — Self
• The Seventies — Self (archive footage)
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2013Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot — Self
• 2013WWII: Saving the Reality — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Inside Comedy — Self
• 2012Sunset Strip — Self
• 2009Julie & Julia — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2007Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation — Self
• Second City: First Family of Comedy — Self
• 2006Working with a Master: John Landis — Self
• 2005Dan Aykroyd Unplugged On UFOs — Self
• 2005Just the Two of Us — Self
• 2005Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation — Self
• 2005Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live — Self
• 2005Saturday Night Live: The Best of John Belushi — Self / Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2005The Blues Brothers: Transposing The Music — Self
• 2004The Best of So Graham Norton — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Saturday Night Live: 25 Years of Music Vol. 5 — Self
• 2003The Making of ‘Sneakers’ — Self
• 2003Toronto Rocks — Self
• 1999Ghostbusters 1999 — Self
• Mark Twain Prize — Self
• 1999Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special — Self
• 1999Saturday Night Live: Christmas — Self (archive footage)
• 1998Roswell Top Secret — Self
• 1998The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' — Self
• Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal — Self - Host
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self
• 1994A Century of Cinema — Self
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• Terry Wogan's Friday Night — Self
• 1990Life of Python — Self
• 1990Seriously... Phil Collins — Self
• 1989Mel Gibson's Unauthorized Video Diary — Self
• 1989Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary — Self
• 1985B.B. King: Into the Night — Self
• 1985We Are the World: The Story Behind the Song — Self
• MTV Video Music Awards — Self - Host
• 1982It Came from Hollywood — Self
• 1978Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland — Self
• 1978The Things We Did Last Summer — Self
• Dinah! — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Presenter