Dan Aykroyd was in THE TEMPLE OF DOOM!
Posted by Matt Holmes
Well you learn something everyday don’t you?
I must have seen Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom about six or seven times but on each viewing occasion this cameo completely passed me by.
/Film have spotted a familiar face in the film’s opening scene.
Dan Aykroyd!
Ayrkoyd and Spielberg were good pals at the time - only five years prior Aykroyd had led the comedy 1941 for the director. The site tells us…
The 18-second cameo is easy to miss and comes just after the conclusion of the car chase with Lao Che’s men in the film’s opening sequence. Aykroyd plays a character named “Weber”, who sports a mustache and an even worse fake British accent. He explains to Indy that he’s arranged for last minute transportation just before Jones, Short Round and Willie board the plane.
It may be well known and a quick google search see’s the film listed on many of his filmographies but I had never known or spotted it before.
Had you spotted it? Did you know of Aykroyd’s appearance in Indy Jones and isn’t it a shame Spielberg never gave this actor a fully fleshed out major part in one of the films… the more you think about it the more his comedic persona could have fitted in well. Kind of how Ray Winstone SHOULD have been portrayed in the last movie.
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Matt, you must be slipping in your old age! I’ve always known Dan Aykroyds cameo in Temple and I’m not that big of a fan of the Indy films.
Was watching the films on Sci-Fi a couple of weekends ago and heard his voice, looked up and went “HEY! That’s DAN ACKROYD!”
If I had known it…I had forgotten it.