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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000) — White Haired Man at Park
2. Law & Order (1990) — Jeremy Orenstein
3. Bonanza (1959) — Candy Canaday
4. Hombre (1967) — Lamar Dean
5. Kung Fu (1972) — Frank Grogan
6. Touched by an Angel (1994) — Carter Winslow
7. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) — Mr. Walski (uncredited)
8. Hawaii Five-O (1968) — George
9. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) — Frank Gusenberg
10. Gunsmoke (1955) — George McClaney
11. Posse (1975) — Pensteman
12. S.W.A.T. (1975)
13. Reading Rainbow (1983) — Self - Narrator (voice)
14. Alias Smith and Jones (1971)
15. All My Children (1970) — Adam Chandler
16. The F.B.I. (1965) — Eugene Bradshaw
17. The Rookies (1972)
18. One Life to Live (1968)
19. Police Story (1973)
20. Another World (1964) — Steve Frame
21. Cimarron Strip (1967) — Tal St. James
22. Sharks' Treasure (1975) — Larry
23. Melvin Purvis G-Man (1975) — 'Gene' Eugene T. Farber
24. American Playhouse (1982) — Bingham
25. Johnny Firecloud (1975) — Jesse
26. Incident on a Dark Street (1973) — Peter Gallagher
27. Remember WENN (1996) — Luke Langly
28. The Dain Curse (1978) — Jack Santos
29. Search for Tomorrow (1951)
30. Dundee and the Culhane (1967)
31. Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love (1991) — Himself - Co-Host
32. King of America (1982) — Bingham
33. In a Pig's Eye (1989)