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Judy Belushi-Pisano, John Belushi's widow who championed his life and legacy, died Friday after a battle with cancer. She was 73. Judy Belushi-Pisano, actor and John Belushi's widow, dies at 73
Pisano was married to Belushi, the larger-than-life star of “Saturday Night Live,” “Animal House” and “The Blues Brothers,” from 1973 until his death from an overdose in 1982.
Belushi Pisano met her future husband and legendary comedian John Belushi while they were in high school in Wheaton, Illinois. They moved to Martha’s Vineyard in 1974, according to the MV Times .
In 1990, she married producer, writer, and director Victor Pisano; he had three daughters from a previous marriage and they had one son before divorcing in 2010. [5] [2] [6] [7] In 2011, Belushi-Pisano was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Nonfiction Series for her work on the television program Biography. [8]
Four years later, Biography aired a full documentary of Belushi's life. In 2015, Belushi was ranked by Rolling Stone as the greatest Saturday Night Live cast member of all time. [56] Belushi's widow later remarried and became Judith Jacklin Belushi Pisano. However, she and her second husband, Victor Pisano, divorced in 2010.
Belushi: A Biography is an oral history biography of John Belushi, written and collaborated by John's widow, Judith Belushi Pisano and co-author Tanner Colby, with an introduction by Dan Aykroyd. Filled with anecdotes and interviews from John's personal friends, fellow Saturday Night Live alumni, and film co-stars, it is a non-objective ...
A number of history makers passed away in 2019: "Boyz n the Hood" director John Singleton, who was the first black director nominated for an Academy Award, died at 51 years old after experiencing ...
The episode focused both on Dr. Mark Greene's life-or-death brain surgery in New York and on Belushi's character, who had been in a car accident with his son in Chicago. Belushi's performance contributed to his re-emergence in the public eye, and the following year he was cast as the title role in ABC's According to Jim. [7]