David Canary
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 25, 1938
- Died
- November 16, 2015 (aged 77)
- Birthplace
- Elwood, Indiana, USA
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.
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Filmography
Curb Your Enthusiasm
TV · as White Haired Man at Park · 1 ep
Remember WENN
TV · as Luke Langly · 1 ep
Touched by an Angel
TV · as Carter Winslow · 2 eps
Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love
Movie · as Himself - Co-Host
Law & Order
TV · as Jeremy Orenstein · 1 ep
In a Pig's Eye
Movie
Reading Rainbow
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 ep
King of America
Movie · as Bingham
American Playhouse
TV · as Bingham · 1 ep
The Dain Curse
TV · as Jack Santos · 3 eps
Posse
Movie · as Pensteman
Johnny Firecloud
Movie · as Jesse
Melvin Purvis G-Man
Movie · as 'Gene' Eugene T. Farber
Sharks' Treasure
Movie · as Larry
S.W.A.T.
TV · 1 ep
Incident on a Dark Street
Movie · as Peter Gallagher
Police Story
TV · 1 ep
The Rookies
TV · 2 eps
Kung Fu
TV · as Frank Grogan · 1 ep
Alias Smith and Jones
TV · 2 eps
All My Children
TV · as Adam Chandler · 2338 eps
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Movie · as Mr. Walski (uncredited)
Hawaii Five-O
TV · as George · 1 ep
One Life to Live
TV · 1 ep
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Movie · as Frank Gusenberg
Hombre
Movie · as Lamar Dean
Dundee and the Culhane
TV · 1 ep
Cimarron Strip
TV · as Tal St. James · 1 ep
The F.B.I.
TV · as Eugene Bradshaw · 1 ep
Another World
TV · as Steve Frame · 1547 eps
Bonanza
TV · as Candy Canaday · 56 eps
Gunsmoke
TV · as George McClaney · 2 eps
Search for Tomorrow
TV · 1 ep