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James Belushi Date of birth: 15/6/1954Chicago, Illinois, USA Zodiac sign: Gemini

John Belushi Full name: John Belushi Adam Date of Birth: 24/1/1949Chicago, Illinois, USA Zodiac sign: Aquarius Date of death: 5/3/1982

James Belushi was born June 15, 1954 in Chicago, but grew up in Wheaton, Illinois. He is the third of four sons of Adam Belushi, an Albanian immigrant who left his native Qytezë village in 1934 at the age of 15 years, and Agnes, who was born in the United States of Albanian immigrants. A high school teacher, impressed by Jim's improvisational skills by giving speeches, Jim convinced to be in a school play. After he joined the school drama club. If today asked why it was involved in acting, he jokingly say "Because of girls. In the drama club, there were about 20 girls and six boys. And the same thing with the choir .... more girls!" . He attended the College of Dupage and graduated from Southern Illinois University with a degree in speech and theater art. From 1976-80 he became a resident member of Chicago's famed Second City. In 1979, write-producer Garry Marshall Jim saw the execution on the 2 nd City and arranged for him to come to Hollywood and co-star in TV pilot "Who's Watching the Kids" for Paramount, and then for a role in television show "Working Stiffs" (co-starring Michael Keaton). Later, in 1983, he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live for 2 years. Jim came to national attention through his role as Edward Zwick's film "About Last Night" with Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, the role he originated in the Apollo Theatre Chicago's production of David Mamet's Obie-award-winning game "sexual perversion Chicago. " He has come a long way from City 2, BN, and his early role in the TV series "Working Stiffs." His feature credits since then show an extraordinary range: He was James Woods' Spacey DJ friends, Dr. Rock, in Oliver Stone's "Salvador"; mentally disabled dishwasher befriended by Whoopi Goldberg in the film by Andrei Konchalovsky, "Homer and Eddie "; Defiant and the school principal standing up to drug dealers in" The main ". In 2000, Belushi co-starred in MGM's "Return to Me," directed by Bonnie Hunt and starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver, and received rave reviews for his work with Gregory Hines in Showtime's "Who Killed Atlanta's Children? Like his popularity has grown over the years, so did its role in the film, theatre and television. Belushi has performed on Broadway in Herb Gardner's acclaimed "Conversations with my father" at the Royal Theatre, Off-Broadway in "True West" at Cherry Lane Theatre in Williamstown Theatre Festival production of John Guare "Moon Over Miami," and Joseph Papp for the Pirate King in "Pirates of Penzance." Furthermore he makes many dubbing of films, television and advertising. He not only keeps busy acting in films, but also plays with his band the Sacred Hearts. Jim has little time outside of career and family, but made a major commitment as founder and member of the board of John Belushi Scholarship Fund, that supports college-prep and college students pursuing performance and visual arts education. More recently Belushi author has added to his repertoire, with his first book entitled "Real men do not apologize." He explains how to do almost everything , From picking up women and choosing your friends to Sticking up for yourself and not apologise for it. A dedicated husband and father resides in Los Angeles with his wife - Jennifer, 2 sons - Robert ('81) and Jared ('02 ) And a daughter - Jamison ('99). Jim is currently protagonists in his sitcom, titled According to Jim, which can be seen is regular time slot on the network ABC and 5 days a week in syndication.

Adam John Belushi was born on January 24, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois (USA). Son of Adam Belushi, restaurateur, an immigrant Albanian John Belushi actor is a symbol of excess. Her short life was reckless, aimed to vagabonde nights, passed through crisis and depressive phases of exaltation; passing then to use heavy drugs to always seek the maximum condition. Even his brother James Belushi will undertake the career of becoming an actor known faces of Hollywood, however, remain always in shadow than John. Since boy John Belushi cultivates three passions: baseball, theatre and rock 'n' roll. At the time of School John Belushi is a model student, he graduated in 1967 at the Wheaton Central High School, whose football team is captain. And 'This is the period in which knows and falls in love with Judith Jacklin, his future bride. He attended for one year the University of Wisconsin, then abandons. Goes to College of Dupage where follows a sort of graduation short in artistic disciplines. His career began just 22 years when after a test is recruited by "Second City Comedy", historical company in Chicago devoted to improvised sketch. In recent years John Belushi knows Dan Aykroyd in Toronto, which establishes a solid working relationship, as well as a deep friendship. In 1975, NBC gives life to one of broadcasts intended to revolutionize American television: "Saturday Night Live." After having made known for his comedy demenziale in theatre first, and then on the radio, John Belushi rekrutiert is the cast of "Saturday Night Live", and its popularity is impenna. On the same stage alternate rock star, actors and comedians in an informal atmosphere. Belushi updates bet bet in his repertoire of characters. On the evening of April 22, 1978 John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd appear in front of the camera in the shoes of Joliet Jake and Elwood, with blacks dress and tie, sunglasses and hat model "fedora" sing a piece blues together with frenetic ballets and capriole . It would have been the prelude of the worldwide phenomenon "Blues Brothers. In his film career are five films in which his name has been linked by a double wire; two of these have become true worship: "Animal House" (1978) and "The Blues Brothers" (1980), both direct by John Landis. In the first John Belushi interprets the part of repellent Bluto Blutarski, head of a banda of goliardi in second is Jake, a former galley slave, whose brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) is dedicated to blues and charities ( "on a mission on behalf of God "); contibuire to make this movie legend are the stakes of sacred monsters genre such as James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and John Lee Hooker. In the other three films as John Belushi not those masks its icon-for which he has said. In these films interprets more land roles in "1941: alarm in Hollywood" (1979) of Steven Spielberg is a pilot, in "Continental Divide" (1981) by Michael Apted, as the shoes of a journalist in Chicago in love with a ornitologa , And finally to "neighbors" (1981) by John Avildsen, interprets a paranoid aimed at defence of his privacy. The actor died just 33 years. On the morning of March 5, 1982 John Belushi is found in a bungalow of a hotel complex. Already in poor physical condition due to obesity and being alcohol, death has come as a result of lethal injection of cocaine and heroin. His body rests all ' "Abel's Hill Cemetery" on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts