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