David Canary
Birthday
1938/08/25
Day of death
2015/11/16 (77 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Elwood, Indiana, USA
Also know as
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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 act...Read more
Acting
(1967) The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Frank Gusenberg
(1975) Posse
as Pensteman
(1973) Incident on a Dark Street
as Peter Gallagher
(1975) Johnny Firecloud
as Jesse
(1982) King of America
as Bingham
(1975) Melvin Purvis G-Man
as 'Gene' Eugene T. Farber
(1975) Sharks' Treasure
as Larry
(1969) The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
as Mr. Walski (uncredited)
(1991) Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love
as Himself - Co-Host
(1967) Hombre
as Lamar Dean
(1970) All My Children
as Adam Chandler
(1972) The Rookies
as ---
(1972) Kung Fu
as Frank Grogan
(1965) The F.B.I.
as Eugene Bradshaw
(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as George
(1971) Alias Smith and Jones
as ---
(1955) Gunsmoke
as George McClaney
(1964) Another World
as Steve Frame
(1973) Police Story
as ---
(1975) S.W.A.T.
as ---
(1996) Remember WENN
as Luke Langly
(1967) Dundee and the Culhane
as ---
(1968) One Life to Live
as ---
(1951) Search for Tomorrow
as ---
(1959) Bonanza
as Candy Canaday
(2000) Curb Your Enthusiasm
as White Haired Man at Park
(1983) Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(1978) The Dain Curse
as Jack Santos
(1990) Law & Order
as Jeremy Orenstein
(1994) Touched by an Angel
as Carter Winslow
(1967) Cimarron Strip
as Tal St. James