Dan Aykroyd

Film. Benigni is currently directing a new film called "La tigre et la neve", shooting in Rome, Tunisia, and Umbria. Television. Benigni was censored again in the 1980s for calling the Pope John Paul II something impolite during an important live TV show. His famously mangled English is a put-on, apparently. A list of prominent film and television appearances, often with Aykroyd writing as well, includes:. It was an unprecedented fact, given that until that moment Italian politicians were proverbially serious and formal (and Berlinguer was perhaps the most serious one at all); it represented a breaking point, after which politicians experimented newer habits and "public manners", started frequenting less formal happenings and, generally speaking, modified their lifestyle in order to show a more popular, "familiar" look. He has been inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Little after, he appeared during a public political demonstration of the Italian Communist Party (of which he was a sympathiser), and in this occasion he took in his arms and dandled the national leader Enrico Berlinguer, a very serious figure.

He received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for Driving Miss Daisy. A great scandal for the time, the series was suspended due to censorship. In 1977 he received an Emmy Award for writing on SNL; he later received two more nominations for writing, and one each for acting and Outstanding Comedy-Variety series. Very popular in Italy, Benigni became famous in the 1970s for a shocking TV series called Televacca, by Renzo Arbore, in which he interpreted a particular hymn on specific biological functions. As of 2004, it was the second largest live music promoter in the world with seven venues and 22 amphitheaters in the United States and Canada. Benigni is also a well appreciated improvisatory poet (poesia estemporanea is a form of art popularly followed and practiced in Tuscany), and is appreciated for his recitations of Dante's Divina Commedia by memory. Its mission is to promote African-American cultural contributions of blues music and folk art. He also starred in the first of Jarmusch's series of short films Coffee and Cigarettes (1986).

In 1992, Aykroyd, along with many other notable music and Hollywood personalities, founded the House of Blues. In Down By Law (1986) he plays Bob, the innocent abroad, convicted for murder, whose irrepressible good humour and optimism help him escape and find love (also starring Braschi as his beloved.) In Night on Earth (1991) he plays a cabby in Rome, causing his passenger, a priest, great discomfort by confessing his revolting sexual experiences. He was born with syndactylism (webbed toes). Benigni has starred in two films by American Director Jim Jarmusch. He gained fame on the American TV show Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1979 where he was known for his impersonations of celebrities like Julia Child and Tom Snyder and for his recurring role as a huckster. Benigni's wife, Nicoletta Braschi, has starred with him in most of the films he directed. Daniel Edward Aykroyd (born July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a comedian, actor and screenwriter. With the very popular comic actor Massimo Troisi, he played in Non ci resta che piangere (nothing left for us, but crying), a fable in which the protagonists are suddenly thrown back in time up to 15th century, just a little before 1492, so they start looking for Columbus in order to stop him before discovering the Americas, but obviously they are not able to reach him.

2004: Christmas with the Kranks. Benigni also directed The Monster (Il Mostro), Il piccolo diavolo (with Walter Matthau) and Johnny Stecchino. 2004: 50 First Dates. Benigni's father had spent two years in a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, and La Vita è bella is based in part on his father's experiences; the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor (Benigni directed himself). 2003: Bright Young Things. Benigni is probably best known for his tragicomedy Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella), filmed in Cortona, about a man who tries to protect his son during his internment at a Nazi concentration camp, by telling him that the Holocaust is an elaborate game and he must adhere very carefully to the rules to win. 2002: Crossroads, Unconditional Love. He was born in Misericordia, Tuscany, Italy.

the Spider, Evolution, Pearl Harbor, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. Roberto Benigni (born October 27, 1952) is an Italian film and television actor and director. 2001: Earth vs. 2000: Loser, Stardom, The House of Mirth. 1999: Diamonds.

1998: Antz, Blues Brothers 2000. 1997: Grosse Pointe Blank. Bilko. 1996: Celtic Pride, Feeling Minnesota, My Fellow Americans, Sgt.