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

Saturday Night Live
1975
The Blues Brothers
1980
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
Animal House
1978
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
The Richard Pryor Show
1977
1941
1979
Too Young to Die
2012
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
2015
Goin' South
1978

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
45
Writing
4
2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self (archive footage)
2025
John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Actor, Saturday Night Live (archive footage)
2025
Saturday Night Live
as Self / Various (archive footage)
2024
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
2024
An SNL Thanksgiving
as (archive footage)
2020
Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Belushi
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Cola Wars
as Self (archive footage)
2018
TVTV: Video Revolutionaries
as Self
2018
Studio 54
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2012
Too Young to Die
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Frank Zappa: The Broadcast Archives
as Self
2008
Animal House: The Inside Story
as Self (archive footage)
2006
The American Dream: The Dusty Rhodes Story
as Self
2005
The Blues Brothers: Transposing The Music
as Self (archive footage)
2005
Saturday Night Live: The Best of John Belushi
as Self / Various (archive footage)
2005
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd
as Various Characters (archive footage)
2005
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live
as Self
1999
Saturday Night Live: Christmas
as Self (archive footage)
1999
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
as (archive footage)
1998
The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers'
as Self (archive footage)
1998
The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion
as Self - Bluto (archive footage)
1993
The Best of the Blues Brothers
as Jake Blues (archive footage)
1989
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
as Self (archive footage)
1985
The Best of John Belushi
as Various Characters
1981
Continental Divide
as Ernie Souchak
1981
Neighbors
as Earl Keese
1981
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever
as Zhelezna Postruk
1981
Saturday Night Live
as Self (uncredited)
1980
The Blues Brothers
as 'Joliet' Jake Blues
1980
Saturday Night Live
as Self / Eleanor of Gaunt (uncredited)
1979
1941
as Capt. Wild Bill Kelso
1979
Old Boyfriends
as Eric
1978
Animal House
as John 'Bluto' Blutarski
1978
Goin' South
as Hector
1978
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
as Ron Decline
1978
The Blues Brothers Live at Winterland
as Joliet Jake Blues
1978
The Things We Did Last Summer
as Self
1977
The Richard Pryor Special?
as Slave Driver / Bartender
1977
The Richard Pryor Show
1976
The Beach Boys: It's OK
as Cop #2
1976
The Beach Boys: It's OK
as Cop #2
1975
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Various Characters
1973
Lemmings
as Various