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