Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler Slash Price of $5 Million Nashville Mansion in Wake of Split, Dan Aykroyd and Donna Dixon Separate After 39 Years, Remain Legally Married: 'Loving Friendship', A-Listed! Aykroyd appeared in five films released in 1988, all of them critical and commercial failures. A 2003 iVillage article quoted Dan as saying, A ghost certainly haunts my house. [2][3] His father, Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau,[4] and his mother, Lorraine Hlne Marie (ne Gougeon), was a secretary. Aykroyd later recalled that, unlike Belushi and others of his peers, he was uninterested in recreational drug use. He was also known for his recurring roles, such as Beldar, father of the Coneheads family; with Steve Martin, Yortuk Festrunk, one of the "Two Wild and Crazy Guys" brothers from Bratislava, Slovakia; sleazy late-night cable TV host E. Buzz Miller and his cousin, corrupt maker of children's toys and costumes Irwin Mainway (who extolled the virtues and defended the safety of the "Bag-o-Glass" toy); Fred Garvin male prostitute; and high-bred but low-brow critic Leonard Pinth-Garnell. Animal House is one of the most acclaimed and celebrated comedy movies ever made. They originally wanted Dan Aykroyd to play D-Day, . Dan Aykroyd Also Makes Good Money From His Distillery Business [11] The band was much further popularized in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, which Aykroyd co-wrote. Michael Tran. // -->,