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John Belushi Biography

Date of Birth:
Jan 24, 1949Birth Place:
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Biography

Comic actor John Belushi parlayed his tremendous energy and physicality into a brief but meteoric career on television and in film which took him from "Saturday Night Live" (NBC, 1975- ) to such hit comedies as "Animal House" (1978) and "The Blues Brothers" before his untimely death in 1982. Born John Adam Belushi in Chicago, Illinois on January 24, 1949, he was the eldest of four children by parents who emigrated from Albania; his younger brother, Jim, would later join the main cast of "Saturday Night Live" and enjoy a lengthy career as both a dramatic and comic actor. A popular student at Wheaton Community High School - where he met his future wife, Judith Jacklin - Belushi was a star athlete on the school's football team, which led to a scholarship to Western Illinois University. He turned it down in favor of enrollment at the University of Illinois, where he remained for a year before settling at the College of Dupage. After graduating with an associate's degree in 1970

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Having not read Bob Woodward’s infamous biography of John Belushi nor seen the even more infamous narrative movie adaptation, I approached R.J. Cutler’s fairly conventional documentary about the legendary actor with few prejudices and left it with more questions than I had when I went in. The ostensible reason for Cutler’s new take on Belushi’s life is a collection of recordings of people close to Belushi that were used for a kind of corrective oral biography by his widow, Judy Belushi Pisano, in 2005. The interviews were done not long after Belushi’s death from a drug overdose in 1982, and many of the famous people who do the talking are dead themselves, thus lending the overall production a macabre tone that weighs it down. Generally speaking, Cutler tries to build his narrative around these recordings but since there is so much personal history to fill in he has to stretch what he has with reenactments (some animated) and extensive archival footage.

Though not a hagiography, the movie clearly tries to make the case that, as as actor (which is h

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John Belushi

American comedian and actor (1949–1982)

John Adam Belushi (; January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and musician. He was one of seven Saturday Night Live cast members of the first season.^[1] Along with Chevy Chase, he was arguably the most popular member of the Saturday Night Live ensemble. 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 the inaugural season of the television show Saturday Night Live.^[2]

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 charac