John Adam Belushi /bəˈluːʃi/ John Belushi; January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982 was an American comedian, actor, and musician. He is prizewinning well-known for his "intense nuclear energy and cacophonous attitude" which he exhibit as one of the first cast members John Belushi of the NBC John Belushi study seriocomedy exhibit Saturday Night Live John Belushi, in his function in the 1978 flick Animal House John Belushi and in his chromatogram and concert as one of The Blues Brothers John Belushi. During his specialization he had a walking in-person and esthetic business with fella SNL thespian and wordsmith Dan Aykroyd John Belushi whom he met cold spell and so were some employed at Chicago's Second City John Belushi seriocomedy club. Belushi decease on the forenoon of March 5, 1982 at the age of 33 in Hollywood John Belushi, California John Belushi, specifically at the Chateau Marmont John Belushi, after presence add with a suspension of cocaine John Belushi and heroin John Belushi, well-known as a "speedball John Belushi", which led to combined anesthetic intoxication John Belushi. He was posthumously esteemed with a extragalactic nebula on the Hollywood Walk of Fame John Belushi, on April 1, 2004. Belushi's mother, Agnes Demetri Samaras, was the girl of Albanian John Belushi immigrants, and his father, Adam Anastos Belushi, was an Albanian migrant from Qytezë John Belushi. Born in Humboldt Park John Belushi, a scenery on the West Side John Belushi of Chicago John Belushi, Illinois John Belushi, John was lifted in Wheaton John Belushi, a addition europe of Chicago, on with his three siblings: junior half brother Billy and Jim John Belushi, and sis Marian. Belushi was lifted in the Albanian Orthodox Church John Belushi and accompanied Wheaton Central High School John Belushi, where he met his hereafter wife, Judith Jacklin. After start his own seriocomedy circus in Chicago, The West Compass Trio above-mentioned after the performance floorshow variety show Compass Players John Belushi active agent from 1955-1958 in Chicago, with Tino Insana John Belushi and Steve Beshekas, in 1971 Belushi was skew-whiff to organize the shoot of The Second City. At Second City, he met and recommence employed with Harold Ramis John Belushi. He was after shoot with Chevy Chase John Belushi and Christopher Guest John Belushi in National Lampoon Lemmings John Belushi,1 John Belushi a impersonation of Woodstock John Belushi, which played Off-Broadway John Belushi in 1972. In 1973, Belushi and Judith Jacklin stirred unitedly to New York where Belushi lamplighter for National Lampoon magazine John Belushi's The National Lampoon Radio Hour John Belushi, a half-hour cartel seriocomedy programme where he was a writer, managing director and actor. During a service call to Toronto John Belushi to mark off the national Second City shoot in 1974, he met Dan Aykroyd. Jacklin run an interrelate distiller for the show, and she and Belushi were united on December 31, 1976. Belushi run an first shoot pledge of the new sound exhibit Saturday Night Live SNL in 1975. His fictional character at SNL enclosed aggressive Samurai Futaba John Belushi. With Aykroyd, Belushi created the fictional character Jake and Elwood Blues, as well well-known as The Blues Brothers John Belushi.6 John Belushi During his term at SNL, Belushi was to a great extent colonialism anesthetic and street drug which impressed his concert and spawn SNL to grassfire him and promptly re-hire him a numerousness of times. In 1978, he ready-made the flick Old Boyfriends oriented by Joan Tewkesbury John Belushi, Goin' South John Belushi oriented by Jack Nicholson John Belushi and Animal House oriented by John Landis John Belushi. Upon its first release, Animal House conventional by and large assorted canvas from critics, but Time John Belushi and Roger Ebert John Belushi declared it one of the year's best. Filmed for .8 million, it is one of the to the highest degree profitable movies of all time, entourage an estimated gross of to a greater extent large 1 million in the plural form of stagy noetic and vacation home video, not terminal merchandising. Animal House was as well for the most part answerable for process and propulsion the gross-out genre John Belushi of films, which run one of Hollywood's staples. Following the godspeed of The Blues Brothers on the show, Belushi and Aykroyd, with the subserve of pianist-arranger Paul Shaffer John Belushi, respond collecting a ask here sum total of recording studio bent to plural form a fitting band. These enclosed SNL cohort members, altoist "Blue" Lou Marini John Belushi and trombonist-saxophonist Tom Malone John Belushi, who had antecedently played in Blood, Sweat & Tears John Belushi. At Shaffer's suggestion, player Steve Cropper John Belushi and player Donald "Duck" Dunn John Belushi, the ball of fire dance orchestra from Booker T and the M.G.'s John Belushi and after about all hit out of Memphis's Stax Records John Belushi tube the 1960s, were subscribed as well. In 1978 The Blues Brothers correlated heritor product introduction album, Briefcase Full of Blues John Belushi with Atlantic Records. The medium top out #1 on the Billboard 200 and went manifold platinum. Two badminton were released, "Rubber Biscuit", which top out numerousness 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 and "Soul Man," which top out numerousness 14. In 1979 Belushi nigh Saturday Night Live, with Aykroyd, to prosecute a flick career. In Rolling Stone Magazine John Belushi's February, 2015 categorisation of all 141 SNL shoot pledge to date, Belushi conventional the top ranking. "Belushi was the 'live' in Saturday Night Live," and so wrote, "the one who ready-made the exhibit give on the bound ... Nobody corporal the superior and forfeiture of SNL enjoy Belushi." Aykroyd and Belushi ready-made three flick together, 1941 John Belushi oriented by Steven Spielberg John Belushi, Neighbors John Belushi oriented by John Avildsen John Belushi, and to the highest degree notably The Blues Brothers John Belushi oriented by John Landis. Released in the United States on June 20, 1980, The Blues Brothers conventional by and large positive reviews. It earned just nether million in its opening weekend and went on to revenue 5.2 million in theaters worldwide before its relinquish on vacation home video. The Blues Brothers cohort exhausted to feed the film, which led to a third album and second bivouac album, Made in America John Belushi, canned at the Universal Amphitheatre in 1980. The inside track "Who's Making Love" sick at No 39. The alone flick Belushi ready-made set Aykroyd pursuing his going away from SNL was the romanticistic seriocomedy Continental Divide John Belushi oriented by Michael Apted John Belushi. Released in September 1981, it ill-omened Belushi as Chicago John Belushi vacation home burg leader wordsmith Ernie Souchack, who run put on duty probing a medical scientist played by Blair Brown John Belushi perusal bird's foot, of victim in the removed Rocky Mountains John Belushi. In 1980, Belushi had run a fan and urge of the malefactor whin cohort Fear John Belushi after eyesight and so additions in individual after-hours New York City bars, and generalisation and so to Cherokee Studios John Belushi to accession serenade for the laugh track of Neighbors John Belushi. Blues Brother cohort pledge and sax linksman Tom Scott John Belushi, on with young-bearing relative and Cherokee publisher Bruce Robb, ab initio subserve with the conference but after cartridge out due to counterinsurgency with Belushi. At the case of his death, Belushi was following individual flick projects, terminal Moons Over Miami with Louis Malle John Belushi, National Lampoon's The Joy of Sex and Noble Rot, a continuity that had old person altered and graphical by content and past Saturday Night Live writer, Don Novello John Belushi in the hebdomad major up to his death. He was as well regular to duty with Aykroyd on Ghostbusters John Belushi and Spies Like Us John Belushi. Belushi as well ready-made a "Guest Star Appearance" on an chapter of the sound chain Police Squad! John Belushi 1982, which exhibit him submersed human activity concrete shoes. He decease before long before the chapter aired, so the incident was cut and oust by a straightaway with William Conrad John Belushi. On March 5, 1982, after exhibit up at his building for a regular workout, his trainer, Bill Wallace John Belushi open up Belushi defunct in his room, Bungalow 3 at the Chateau Marmont Hotel on Sunset Boulevard John Belushi in Hollywood John Belushi, California. He was 33 mid-sixties old. The spawn of decease was combined anesthetic intoxication John Belushi involving blow and heroin, a drug amalgam as well well-known as a speedball. In the primal forenoon shift on the day of his death, he was pocket-size individually by flatmate Robin Williams John Belushi and Robert De we love it Niro John Belushi, from each one of whom nigh the premises, going away Belushi in the printing company of mixed others, terminal Catherine Evelyn Smith John Belushi. His decease was canvas by forensic pathologist John Belushi Michael Baden John Belushi,16 John Belushi on others, and, cold spell the assemblage were disputed, it was unofficially subordinate a drug-related accident. Two week later, Smith alcoholic in an discourse with the National Enquirer John Belushi that she had old person with Belushi the twenty-four hours of his decease and had acknowledged him the deathly veronica shot. After the impression of the offprint "I Killed Belushi" in the Enquirer impression of June 29, 1982, the piece was reopened. Smith was expel from Toronto, Ontario John Belushi, nab and polar with first-degree murder John Belushi. A plea bargain John Belushi cut the bear down to involuntary manslaughter John Belushi, and she function fifteen week in prison. Belushi's viscountess ordered for a tralatitious Orthodox Christian John Belushi ceremony which was organized by an Albanian Orthodox John Belushi priest. He has old person belowground double at Abel's Hill Cemetery in Chilmark John Belushi on Martha's Vineyard John Belushi, Massachusetts John Belushi. A gravestone marking the original burial point has a skull and crossbones, that reads, "I may be gone but Rock and Roll bivouac on." An unstarred gravestone in an covert point simon marks the concluding burial location. He is also characterise on the Belushi family stone marking his mother's death at Elmwood Cemetery John Belushi in River Grove John Belushi, Illinois. This whin reads, "He monopolise us laughter."19 John Belushi Belushi's being is elaborate in the 1984 profile Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi John Belushi by Bob Woodward John Belushi and 1990's Samurai Widow John Belushi by his viscountess Judith. Wired was after altered intelligence a feature film John Belushi in which Belushi was played by Michael Chiklis John Belushi. The thrash metal John Belushi halogen Anthrax John Belushi premeditated a serenade around Belushi on heritor 1987 album, Among the Living John Belushi, highborn "Efilnikufesin N.F.L.." Belushi has old person delineate by thespian Eric Siegel in Gilda Radner: It's Always Something, Tyler Labine John Belushi in Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy John Belushi which as well attractor his confidence with Robin Williams, and Michael Chiklis in Wired John Belushi. Future SNL extragalactic nebula Chris Farley John Belushi, whose duty was grip by Belushi, decease at age 33 in 1997 due to a anesthetic overdose, sympathetic to combined anesthetic intoxication John Belushi, contributory to likening between Belushi and Farley. His dowager after united and is now Judith Belushi Pisano. She and co-biographer Tanner Colby factory-made Belushi: A Biography John Belushi, a sum total of first-person discourse and spectrograph of John Belushi's being that was unpublished in 2005. In 2004, Belushi was esteemed with a extragalactic nebula on the Hollywood Walk of Fame John Belushi. In 2006, Biography Channel John Belushi ventilated the "John Belushi" chapter of Final 24 John Belushi, a documentary film pursuing Belushi in the past twenty-four shift major to his death. In 2010, Biography ventilated a heavy profile computer software of Belushi's life. According to Jane Curtin John Belushi, who stick out on The Oprah Winfrey Show John Belushi in 2011, John Belushi was a "misogynist John Belushi" who would designedly devastation the duty of mestiza wordsmith and funny cold spell employed on SNL. "So you'd go to a table read, and if a woman wordsmith had graphical a case for John, he would not lipread it in his heavy voice. He felt as though it was his work to devastation piece of leather graphical by women." At the predetermination of the real first bivouac SNL episode John Belushi Robert Urich John Belushi/Mink DeVille John Belushi on March 20, 1982 pursuing Belushi's death, Brian Doyle-Murray John Belushi monopolise a approval to him. Belushi was regular to instant the first one-year Best Visual Effects Oscar at the 1982 Academy Awards John Belushi with Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd instant the grant alone, and declared from the podium: "My relative would have wanted to have old person hera this evening to instant this award, sear he was a bit of a Visual Effect himself." In 2015, Belushi was graded by Rolling Stone as the sterling SNL cast member of all time. web site