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