David Canary
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 25, 1938
- Died
- Nov 16, 2015 (aged 77)
- Place of birth
- Elwood, Indiana, USA
- Credits
- 33
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
2000TV
White Haired Man at Park
Remember WENN
1996TV
Luke Langly
Touched by an Angel
1994TV
Carter Winslow
Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love
1991Movie
Himself - Co-Host
Law & Order
1990TV
Jeremy Orenstein
In a Pig's Eye
1989Movie
Reading Rainbow
1983TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
King of America
1982Movie
Bingham
American Playhouse
1982TV
Bingham
The Dain Curse
1978TV
Jack Santos
Johnny Firecloud
1975Movie
Jesse
Posse
1975Movie
Pensteman
Sharks' Treasure
1975Movie
Larry
Melvin Purvis G-Man
1975Movie
'Gene' Eugene T. Farber
S.W.A.T.
1975TV
Police Story
1973TV
Incident on a Dark Street
1973Movie
Peter Gallagher
Kung Fu
1972TV
Frank Grogan
The Rookies
1972TV
Alias Smith and Jones
1971TV
All My Children
1970TV
Adam Chandler
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
1969Movie
Mr. Walski (uncredited)
Hawaii Five-O
1969TV
George
One Life to Live
1968TV
Cimarron Strip
1967TV
Tal St. James
Dundee and the Culhane
1967TV
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967Movie
Frank Gusenberg
Hombre
1967Movie
Lamar Dean
The F.B.I.
1965TV
Eugene Bradshaw
Another World
1964TV
Steve Frame
Bonanza
1959TV
Candy Canaday
Gunsmoke
1955TV
George McClaney
Search for Tomorrow
1951TV