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.
Movie Appearances
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
as Frank Gusenberg
1967
Posse
as Pensteman
1975
Incident on a Dark Street
as Peter Gallagher
1973
Johnny Firecloud
as Jesse
1975
King of America
as Bingham
1982
Melvin Purvis G-Man
as 'Gene' Eugene T. Farber
1975
Sharks' Treasure
as Larry
1975
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
as Mr. Walski (uncredited)
1969
Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love
as Himself - Co-Host
1991
Hombre
as Lamar Dean
1967
In a Pig's Eye
1989
TV Appearances
All My Children
as Adam Chandler
1970
The Rookies
1972
Kung Fu
as Frank Grogan
1972
The F.B.I.
as Eugene Bradshaw
1965
Hawaii Five-O
as George
1968
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Gunsmoke
as George McClaney
1955
Another World
as Steve Frame
1964
Police Story
1973
S.W.A.T.
1975
Remember WENN
as Luke Langly
1996
Dundee and the Culhane
1967