Peter Aykroyd, Emmy nominated 'SNL' actor-writer,
dead at 66
Posted By: voxpopuli, 11/22/2021 10:43:15 PM
Peter Aykroyd, an Emmy-nominated actor and writer on "Saturday Night Live" for the 1979-80 season and who later worked with older brother, Dan, on everything from a TV show about the paranormal to such films as "Dragnet" and "Coneheads," has died at age 66. In a brief statement Monday to The Associated Press, Dan Aykroyd cited the medical examiner in Spokane, Washington, and said that his brother "succumbed to septicemia from an internal infection precipitated by an untreated abdominal hernia." Further details were not immediately available.
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Peter Aykroyd, an Emmy-nominated actor and writer on "Saturday Night Live" for the 1979-80 season and who later worked with older brother, Dan, on everything from a TV show about the paranormal to such films as "Dragnet" and "Coneheads," has died at age 66.
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don't know anything about him because i quit watching this Left Wing Propaganda after they kept making fun of Gerald Ford.. (he had an older brother?)