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