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unusual facts about James Belushi



Andy Newell

Recently, Newell created the Sound Design and was Sound Supervisor for The Wild, an animated feature by Disney Feature Animation, directed by Steve “Spaz” Williams and starring Kiefer Sutherland and James Belushi.

Dimenticare Palermo

Dimenticare Palermo (Forgetting Palermo) is a 1989 Italian political thriller film starring James Belushi, directed by Francesco Rosi and co-written by Gore Vidal.

Gene Hooks Field at Wake Forest Baseball Park

The baseball park was used for some key scenes in the 1990 movie Mr. Destiny starring James Belushi and Linda Hamilton.

George Reinblatt

He has also been a writer for Rick Mercer's Monday Report, was the head writer for Canada's Walk of Fame in 2006, and has been a writer at Montreal's Just for Laughs comedy festival, where he has written for the likes of John Cleese, Tina Fey, Kelly Ripa, William Shatner, Howie Mandel, Jason Alexander, Dame Edna, Joan Rivers, George Lopez, Tom Arnold and James Belushi, amongst others.

Leland Crooke

In February 1980, Crooke gave his stage debut in the play Bal (Richard Nelson's loosely adaption of Bertolt Brecht's play Baal with James Belushi in title role) which was staged at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

Niels Mueller

The series, starring James Belushi and Jerry O'Connell, chronicled the adventures of two defense attorneys in Las Vegas.

Rudas Baths

The baths were used as a location for the opening scene of the 1988 action movie Red Heat, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Belushi.

Taylor Atelian

She appeared in a commercial promoting the V-Chip, along with her According to Jim co-stars James Belushi, Larry Joe Campbell and Billi Bruno, the commercial is called "A Better Community," for ABC.

Trading Places

The cast also includes Robert Curtis-Brown as Todd, Winthorpe's romantic rival for Penelope; James Belushi as Harvey, a party-goer on New Year's Eve; Jamie Lee Curtis' sister Kelly Curtis cameos as Penelope's friend Muffy; Frank Oz as a police officer; and Bo Diddley as a pawnbroker.


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Gang Related

Renegade police detectives Frank Divinci (James Belushi) and Jake Rodriguez (Tupac Shakur) gun down narcotics dealer Lionel Hudd (Kool Moe Dee), after the three engage illegally in drug trafficking; this is in order to recover the cocaine Hudd purchased from them.

Jason Brett

In 1978, Brett co-founded Chicago's famed Apollo Theater, where he produced over forty-five plays and musicals, including such award-winning productionsvague as the Steppenwolf Theater Company's production of True West, starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinese; Balm in Gilead, featuring Laurie Metcalfe; And a Nightingale Sang, with Joan Allen; Appearing Nightly, with Lily Tomlin; and David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago, with James Belushi.