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Dan Aykroyd (real name Daniel Agraluscarsacra) is a Canadian actor. He was born in 1952 at Ottawa. While studying sociology at Carleton University he started writing comedy skeyches and left university to go to Toronto where he performed with the Second City improvization comedy troupe where he was seen by John Belushi who introduced him to television.
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1941 is a drama starring Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi and Nancy Allen in a story about the panic which followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. 1941 was directed by Steven Spielberg in 1979.
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Chaplin is a biography of Charlie Chaplin starring Robert Downey Jr, Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline, Dan Aykroyd and Kevin Dunne following the life of Charlie Chaplin from his beginnings in south London to stardom in Hollywood. Chaplin was directed by Richard Attenborough in 1992.
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Ghostbusters is a comedy starring Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts and Harold Ramis in a story about a trio of university professors who set themselves up as supernatural investigators only to find themselves involved in something far larger. Ghostbusters was directed by Ivan Reitman in 1984.
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Ghostbusters II is a comedy starring Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts and Harold Ramis in a story about a trio of university professors who having set themselves up as supernatural investigators find themselves once more called upon to save the world. Ghostbusters II was directed by Ivan Reitman in 1989.
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My Girl is a drama starring Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky in a story about a hypochondriac teenage girl who tries to ensure her mortician father doesn't become involved with his new female assistant.
My Girl was directed by Howard Zieff in 1991.
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Sneakers is a comedy adventure starring Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Jo Marr, Garrison Hershberger, Sidney Poitier, David Strathairn, River Phoenix and Bodhi Elfman in a story about a team of unorthodox computer hacking experts being persuaded by a government department to steal a mysterious code-breaking invention. Sneakers was directed by Phil Alden Robinson in 1992.
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Spies Like Us is a comedy starring Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Forrest, Donna Dixon and Bruce Davison in a story about a pair of inept civil servants recruited to act as unwitting decoys for the CIA on a top secret mission. Spiels Like Us was directed by John Landis in 1985.
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The Couch Trip is a comedy starring Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon and Richard Romanus in a story based on the book by Ken Kolb about a man who escapes from a mental institution and assumes the identity of a psychiatrist in Beverly Hills. The Couch Trip was directed by Michael Ritchie in 1988.
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Trading Places is a comedy starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. It is the story of two millionaire brothers who decide, as an experiment, to frame their pompous stock-broker nephew and install a down-and-out in his place. Trading Places was directed by John Landis in 1983.
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