JOHN BELUSHI

John Belushi was an actor from the 1970s to the 1980s. He first came to prominence in 1975 on the first season of TV's "Saturday Night Live", and three years later, he was intended to have a somewhat small role in National Lampoon's Animal House, but when he quickly showed that he was the funniest thing about the movie, his part grew, and he was a major part of why it was such a huge success. He made several other movies including The Blues Brothers with fellow Saturday Night Live alumnus Dan Aykroyd. No doubt he would have had a much longer career filled with many highlights, but he died of a drug overdose in 1982 at the age of 33, sadly one of many young actors and comedians to meet that fate.