David Canary

David Canary

Birthday: 1938-08-25

Deathday: 2015-11-16

Place of birth: Elwood, Indiana, USA

Also known as:

imdb_id: nm0133597

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.

Played in movies:

Hombre

Score: 7.1

Melvin Purvis G-Man

Score: 6.7

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Score: 6.3

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Score: 6.0

Posse

Score: 6.0

Johnny Firecloud

Score: 5.4

Incident on a Dark Street

Score: 5.0

Sharks' Treasure

Score: 4.6

Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love

Score: 0.0

King of America

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Reading Rainbow

Score: 8.3

Curb Your Enthusiasm

Score: 8.0

Remember WENN

Score: 8.0

Kung Fu

Score: 7.7

Bonanza

Score: 7.5

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

One Life to Live

Score: 7.4

Touched by an Angel

Score: 7.2

Hawaii Five-O

Score: 7.1

Search for Tomorrow

Score: 7.0

S.W.A.T.

Score: 7.0

Police Story

Score: 6.9

Alias Smith and Jones

Score: 6.9

The Rookies

Score: 6.8

Gunsmoke

Score: 6.6

All My Children

Score: 6.5

The Dain Curse

Score: 6.2

Another World

Score: 5.6

The F.B.I.

Score: 5.5

Cimarron Strip

Score: 5.0

Dundee and the Culhane

Score: 4.0