Dan Aykroyd

Film. His daughter, Shari Belafonte, is a photographer, model and actress. Television. He has won a Grammy Award in 1985 for lifetime achievement and has been made a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. A list of prominent film and television appearances, often with Aykroyd writing as well, includes:. At the end of the 1940s he took classes in acting and subsequently received a Tony Award for his participation in John Murray Anderson's Almanac. He has been inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. When he returned to New York he attended George Washington High school after which he joined the navy and served during the second world war.

He received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for Driving Miss Daisy. From 1935 to 1939 he lived with his mother in her homeland Jamaica. In 1977 he received an Emmy Award for writing on SNL; he later received two more nominations for writing, and one each for acting and Outstanding Comedy-Variety series. Belafonte has gained notoriety for his left wing political views and has called both United States Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice "house slaves". As of 2004, it was the second largest live music promoter in the world with seven venues and 22 amphitheaters in the United States and Canada. He appeared on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and performed a controversial "Mardi Gras" number with footage intercut from the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots. Its mission is to promote African-American cultural contributions of blues music and folk art. He was the first African-American to win an Emmy, with his first solo TV special “tonight with Belafonte”.

In 1992, Aykroyd, along with many other notable music and Hollywood personalities, founded the House of Blues. His breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first album to sell over 1 million copies. He was born with syndactylism (webbed toes). He is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song" with its signature lyric "Day-O". He gained fame on the American TV show Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1979 where he was known for his impersonations of celebrities like Julia Child and Tom Snyder and for his recurring role as a huckster. Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Belafonte on March 1, 1927) is a Harlem-born calypso musician and actor who used his fame as an entertainer in the cause of human rights. Daniel Edward Aykroyd (born July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a comedian, actor and screenwriter.

2004: Christmas with the Kranks. 2004: 50 First Dates. 2003: Bright Young Things. 2002: Crossroads, Unconditional Love.

the Spider, Evolution, Pearl Harbor, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. 2001: Earth vs. 2000: Loser, Stardom, The House of Mirth. 1999: Diamonds.

1998: Antz, Blues Brothers 2000. 1997: Grosse Pointe Blank. Bilko. 1996: Celtic Pride, Feeling Minnesota, My Fellow Americans, Sgt.