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Dan Aykroyd

Daniel Edward Aykroyd (born July 1, 1952, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a comedian actor. He gained fame on the American TV show Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1979. Born with syndactylism (webbed toes).

A list of films includes:

1974:Gift of Winter
1977:Love at First Sight
1978:The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
1979:1941, Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
1980:The Blues Brothers
1981:Neighbors
1982:It Came from Hollywood, Neighbors
1983:Doctor Detroit, Trading Places, Twilight Zone: The Movie,
1984:Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (cameo), Nothing Lasts Forever
1985:Into the Night, Spies Like Us
1986:Comedy Music Videos, One More Saturday Night
1987:Dragnet
1988:Caddyshack II, The Couch Trip, My Stepmother Is an Alien, She's Having a Baby, The Great Outdoors
1989:Driving Miss Daisy, Ghostbusters II
1990:Loose Cannons, Masters of Menace
1991:My Girl, Nothing But Trouble
1992:Chaplin, Sneakers, This Is My Life
1993:Coneheads
1994:Canadian Bacon, Exit to Eden, My Girl 2, North
1995:Casper, Getting Away with Murder, Rainbow, Tommy Boy
1996:Celtic Pride, Feeling Minnesota, My Fellow Americans, Sgt. Bilko
1997:The Arrow, Blues Brothers 2000, Grosse Pointe Blank
1998:
2001:Pearl Harbor (movie)

He has been inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.