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Dan Aykroyd’s Actor-Writer Brother Peter Dead at Age 66

R.I.P.

He wrote for SNL and and acted in a string of 1990s movies.

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Writer and actor Peter Aykroyd, the younger brother of Dan Aykroyd, has died at the age of 66, Saturday Night Live announced. A writer and featured player on SNL in 1979 and 1980, Peter Aykroyd also co-wrote the 1991 movie Nothing But Trouble with his more famous brother and appeared in a string of 1990s movies, some of them SNL spinoffs, Deadline reported. No cause of death was announced.

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