David Canary
ActingBiography
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.
Movies
(10 total)
Hombre
as Lamar Dean
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
as Mr. Walski (uncredited)
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Frank Gusenberg
Posse
as Pensteman
Sharks' Treasure
as Larry
Melvin Purvis G-Man
as 'Gene' Eugene T. Farber
Johnny Firecloud
as Jesse
Incident on a Dark Street
as Peter Gallagher
King of America
as Bingham
Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love
as Himself - Co-Host
TV Shows
(21 total)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
as White Haired Man at Park
Law & Order
as Jeremy Orenstein
Bonanza
as Candy Canaday
Kung Fu
as Frank Grogan
Touched by an Angel
as Carter Winslow
Hawaii Five-O
as George
Gunsmoke
as George McClaney
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
All My Children
as Adam Chandler
The F.B.I.
as Eugene Bradshaw
Another World
as Steve Frame
Cimarron Strip
as Tal St. James
The Dain Curse
as Jack Santos
Remember WENN
as Luke Langly
