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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 25, 1938
Died
November 16, 2015
Place of Birth
Elwood, Indiana, USA
David Canary
0.8 Popularity
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
8.0
White Haired Man at Park
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
8.0
Luke Langly
Remember WENN
1996
7.2
Carter Winslow
Touched by an Angel
1994
0.0
Himself - Co-Host
Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love
1991
7.4
Jeremy Orenstein
Law & Order
1990
8.3
Self - Narrator (voice)
Reading Rainbow
1983
0.0
Bingham
King of America
1982
6.2
Jack Santos
The Dain Curse
1978
4.8
Jesse
Johnny Firecloud
1975
6.0
Pensteman
Posse
1975
Credits
Curb Your Enthusiasm
as White Haired Man at Park
2000
8.0
Remember WENN
as Luke Langly
1996
8.0
Touched by an Angel
as Carter Winslow
1994
7.2
Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love
as Himself - Co-Host
1991
0.0
Law & Order
as Jeremy Orenstein
1990
7.4
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
8.3
King of America
as Bingham
1982
0.0
The Dain Curse
as Jack Santos
1978
6.2
Johnny Firecloud
as Jesse
1975
4.8
Posse
as Pensteman
1975
6.0
Sharks' Treasure
as Larry
1975
4.6
Melvin Purvis G-Man
as 'Gene' Eugene T. Farber
1975
6.0
S.W.A.T.
1975
7.0
Police Story
1973
6.9
Incident on a Dark Street
as Peter Gallagher
1973
5.0
Kung Fu
as Frank Grogan
1972
7.7
The Rookies
1972
6.8
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
All My Children
as Adam Chandler
1970
6.3
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
as Mr. Walski (uncredited)
1969
6.0
Hawaii Five-O
as George
1968
7.1
One Life to Live
1968
7.0
Cimarron Strip
as Tal St. James
1967
5.5
Dundee and the Culhane
1967
4.0
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Frank Gusenberg
1967
6.3
Hombre
as Lamar Dean
1967
7.0
The F.B.I.
as Eugene Bradshaw
1965
5.4
Another World
as Steve Frame
1964
5.2
Bonanza
as Candy Canaday
1959
7.5
Gunsmoke
as George McClaney
1955
6.6
Search for Tomorrow
1951
7.0