Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 25, 1938
Place of Birth:
Elwood, Indiana, USA
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David Canary
Biography
David Hoyt Canary (August 25, 1938 – November 16, 2015) was an American actor. Canary is best known for his roles as ranch foreman "Candy" Canaday in the Bonanza beginning in its ninth season, and as Adam Chandler in the television soap opera All My Children, for which he received 16 Daytime Emmy Award nominations and won five times.
In his youth, Canary was a star football player and was drafted as a lineman in the inaugural 1960 AFL draft by the Denver Broncos. Instead, he opted to pursue acting. Early roles included Russ Gehring in the primetime soap opera Peyton Place and Lamar Dean in the 1967 Western film Hombre. Canary's most notable stage performance was on Broadway in the original production of Tennessee Williams's Clothes for a Summer Hotel, starring Geraldine Page. A baritone, he also appeared in musical stage roles in shows such as Kismet, Man Of La Mancha, The Fantasticks, Sweeney Todd and Carousel, along with dramatic performances in The Seagull, Macbeth, and Clarence Darrow.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love | Himself - Co-Host |
| 1982 | King of America | Bingham |
| 1975 | Posse | Pensteman |
| 1975 | Johnny Firecloud | Jesse |
| 1975 | Melvin Purvis G-Man | 'Gene' Eugene T. Farber |
| 1975 | Sharks' Treasure | Larry |
| 1973 | Incident on a Dark Street | Peter Gallagher |
| 1969 | The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes | Mr. Walski (uncredited) |
| 1967 | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Frank Gusenberg |
| 1967 | Hombre | Lamar Dean |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Curb Your Enthusiasm | White Haired Man at Park |
| 1996 | Remember WENN | Luke Langly |
| 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Carter Winslow |
| 1990 | Law & Order | Jeremy Orenstein |
| 1983 | Reading Rainbow | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| 1978 | The Dain Curse | Jack Santos |
| 1975 | S.W.A.T. | |
| 1973 | Police Story | |
| 1972 | The Rookies | |
| 1972 | Kung Fu | Frank Grogan |
| 1971 | Alias Smith and Jones | |
| 1970 | All My Children | Adam Chandler |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O | George |
| 1968 | One Life to Live | |
| 1967 | Cimarron Strip | |
| 1967 | Dundee and the Culhane | |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. | Eugene Bradshaw |
| 1964 | Another World | Steve Frame |
| 1959 | Bonanza | Candy Canaday |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | George McClaney |
| 1951 | Search for Tomorrow |