John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was a comedian, actor, and musician. He graduated from Wheaton Community High School, in Wheaton, IL, in 1967. He was a very active student – he participated in football, drama, and forensics, among other activities – and was named All-Conference in football as well as Homecoming King and Most Humorous during his senior year. Belushi got his start as a comedian shortly after graduating and joined Second City in 1971. He was one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Life, which debuted in 1975. While at SNL, he and cast member Dan Aykroyd created the duo known as the Blues Brothers. They branched out and formed a band to back them and soon recorded an album (Briefcase Full of Blues), which went double platinum. Several others followed. Belushi co-starred in Animal House in 1978 before leaving SNL the following year. He and Aykroyd went on to co-star in The Blues Brothers as well as two other films (1941 and Neighbors). Belushi had several projects in the works (including co-starring with Aykroyd again in Ghostbusters) at the time of his death. He posthumously received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004 and was named the greatest SNL cast member of all time by Rolling Stone in 2015.
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