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John Adam Belushi (1949–1982) was an American comedian, television actor, film actor, and screenwriter. Born in Humboldt Park, Chicago, Illinois, he began his professional work period in 1972. He was educated at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater and resided in the West Village. Belushi was a member of the Albanian Orthodox Church and spoke English.
He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His brother was Jim Belushi. Belushi died on March 5, 1982, at the Chateau Marmont due to a drug overdose. He was buried in Chilmark.
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Person · Open Library
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Acting · Chicago, Illinois, USA
John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and musician best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live and for his roles in the films National Lampoon's Animal House and The Blues Brothers. He was the older brother of Jim Belushi.
Known for
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self (archive footage)2025
- John Candy: I Like Me — Self - Actor, Saturday Night Live (archive footage)2025
- Jim Henson Idea Man — Self (archive footage)2024
- Zappa — Self (archive footage)2020
- Belushi — Self (archive footage)2020
- Cola Wars — Self (archive footage)2019
- TVTV: Video Revolutionaries — Self2018
- Studio 54 — Self (archive footage)2018
- Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead — Self - Actor (archive footage)2015
- Too Young to Die — Self (archive footage)2012
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Male
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- United States
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- 1949
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- 1982
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John Adam Belushi (24 January 1949 – 5 March 1982) was an American actor, comedian and singer most notable for his work on "Saturday Night Live", "National Lampoon's Animal House", and the "Blues Brothers". He was the older brother of Jim Belushi. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Belushi">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,591x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,635x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,910x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,581x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 29,131x
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Quotes
- “It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder. You say, 'Well, I'll get all screwed up and then it'll be a real challenge again.' So stupid—I've often wondered why people do these things. You're so much happier if you don't, but I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.”
- “I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?”
- “I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.”
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Encyclopedic overview
John Adam Belushi (/bəˈluːʃi/ bə-LOO-shee; January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American actor, comedian, and musician. He was one of seven Saturday Night Live cast members of the first season. Belushi had a partnership with Dan Aykroyd; they had first met while at Chicago's the Second City comedy club, remaining together as cast members on Saturday Night Live.
Born in Chicago to Albanian-American parents, Belushi started his own comedy troupe with Tino Insana and Steve Beshekas, called "The West Compass Trio". Bernard Sahlins recruited him for The Second City comedy club. Once there he met Aykroyd, Brian Doyle-Murray, and Harold Ramis. In 1975, Chevy Chase and Michael O'Donoghue recommended Belushi to Saturday Night Live creator and showrunner Lorne Michaels, who accepted him as a new cast member of the show after an audition. Belushi developed a series of characters on the show that reached great success, including Henry Kissinger and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Belushi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.