David Canary

David Hoyt Canary (AugustTemplate:Nbsp25, 1938Template:SndNovemberTemplate:Nbsp16, 2015) was an American actor. Canary is best known for his roles as ranch foreman Candy Canaday in the NBC Western drama Bonanza, 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.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Early life

Canary was born in Elwood, Indiana, and grew up in Massillon, Ohio.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was the middle son of Hilary Canary and Lorena Heal.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> His brothers were actor John Canary, who once had a role in All My Children, and writer Hilary Glenn Canary. The brothers were purportedly great-great-nephews of Martha Jane Canary, Calamity Jane.<ref name="IMDb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Unreliable source?<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Football

Canary starred as an end on both offense and defense on the football team at Massillon Washington High School, where he graduated in 1956.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The school honored him as a Distinguished Citizen 35 years later in 1991.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He earned a football scholarship to the University of Cincinnati, where he was a three-year letterman from 1957 to 1959 and the recipient of the John Pease Award, as the program's best lineman, in his junior and senior years.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Canary trained as a singer at the university's College of Arts and Sciences and received his bachelor's degree in music in 1960.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was picked by the Denver Broncos in the inaugural 1960 American Football League (AFL) draft.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":0" /> Commenting on the selection in a 2004 interview for the Archive of American Television, he said, "I thought they were out of their minds. I was 172 pounds, I wasn't very fast, and I couldn't catch a pass. They called me stone fingers."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Career

Instead of signing with the Broncos, he opted to head to New York City to become an actor.<ref name=":0" /> He served two years in the United States Army, where he entered an All-Army Entertainment Contest in 1963. After ending his service, Canary moved to Los Angeles to continue his acting career.<ref name="Born Death"/>

After a semi-regular role as Russ Gehring in the primetime serial Peyton Place, Canary came to international prominence in 1967 on the Western series Bonanza.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1967, he appeared in the now-classic Western movie Hombre with Paul Newman, Richard Boone, and Cameron Mitchell.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Canary guest-starred in the two-part episode of CBS's Gunsmoke entitled "Nitro" (S12E28-29) as George McClaney, a poor man who found high pay creating nitroglycerin.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He also played mobster Frank Gusenberg in the film The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and appeared on the short-lived CBS Western Dundee and the Culhane.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

A contract dispute that year between Leonard Nimoy and the producers of Star Trek forced Herb Solow, Robert H. Justman, and Gene Roddenberry to compile a list of candidates for consideration to take over the role of Mr. Spock. As revealed in Solow and Justman's book, Star Trek - The Inside Story, Canary was one of these candidates.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

David Dortort, the creator and producer of Bonanza, saw Canary in Hombre and cast him in the role of the new ranch foreman, Candy Canaday. Dortort said that Canary was "the kind of kid who comes on and suddenly, there's nobody else on the screen."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Canary left Bonanza in June 1970 after a contract dispute. He returned in May 1972 after Dan Blocker's death.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Canary said that he loved Bonanza, except for filming in Nevada in 100° heat.

Canary's most notable stage performance was on Broadway in the original production of Tennessee Williams's Clothes for a Summer Hotel, which starred Geraldine Page.<ref name="Bonanza Boomers">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A baritone, he also appeared on Broadway with Colleen Dewhurst in Great Day in the Morning, and he did numerous 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Canary's first daytime television role was on Search for Tomorrow, where he played the short-term role of Liza Walton's agent. He had two short stints on The Doctors as Far Wind, a cult leader who took the hospital staff hostage and killed Melissa Dancy (Dorian Lo Pinto). In 1981, he assumed the role of Steve Frame on the soap opera Another World. The revival of the Steve/Alice/Rachel love triangle was unsuccessful, and he left the show in 1983 after his character was killed off.

On New Year's Eve in 1983, he joined the cast of All My Children in the role of Adam Chandler.<ref>Shister, Gail. "2 Impostors Taking on Chef Tell on WIOQ." Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) November 10, 1983, Final, Features Television Radio: D14. NewsBank. Web. June 11, 2014.</ref><ref>Shister, Gail. "Prime-Time Anchor Seen as Male Role." Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) November 17, 1983, Final, Features Television Radio: C18. NewsBank. Web. June 11, 2014.</ref> The following year, he was also cast as Adam's meek twin brother, Stuart, who everybody (including the audience) believed was Adam. A May 2009 storyline had Adam accidentally shoot and kill Stuart while using prescription narcotics. Canary retired from full-time acting and departed from All My Children in 2010; his last episode was taped in late March and aired on April 23, 2010. He announced that he intended to return to AMC occasionally. He reprised both of his roles as Adam and Stuart Chandler for several days before the series finale on ABC on September 23, 2011. In 2013, he returned to the role of Adam when the show began to produce online episodes.

Canary's primetime television guest appearances include Law & Order, Touched by an Angel, S.W.A.T., Primus, Alias Smith and Jones, Police Story, Kung-Fu, Hawaii Five-O, Remember WENN, and Cimarron Strip. The actor also appeared as the locomotive engineer in the movie Atomic Train. In 2004, he appeared as mathematical genius Robert in a well-reviewed production of David Auburn's Proof in Canton, Ohio, near his hometown of Massillon.<ref name="Bonanza Boomers" />

Canary was known to be affable and accessible to fans of both All My Children and Bonanza.<ref name="Bonanza Boomers" /> At Disney resorts, he did "meet and greet" appearances where he signed autographs for AMC fans. He also made several appearances at the Lake Tahoe site of the Ponderosa Ranch, a tourist attraction from 1967 to 2004. His last appearance at the ranch in character was in 2002 for a PAX-TV special. In March 2012, David was named as the replacement for the ailing, 90-year-old Jack Klugman in a limited-run production of Twelve Angry Men in New Brunswick, New Jersey.<ref name="Playbill">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal life

Canary was married to actress Maureen Maloney, with whom he had a son, Chris, and a daughter, Kate.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> With his first wife, actress Julie M. Anderson, he had a daughter, Lisa.

Death

Canary died on November 16, 2015 at an assisted living facility in Wilton, Connecticut, at the age of 77;<ref name="Born Death">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> he had been diagnosed with dementia years before.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1967	Hombre	Lamar Dean
1967	The St. Valentine's Day Massacre	Frank Gusenberg
1969	The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes	Mr. Walski	Uncredited
1973	Incident on a Dark Street	Peter Gallagher	TV movie
1974	Melvin Purvis: G-Man	Eugene T. Farber	TV movie
1975	Sharks' Treasure	Larry
1975	Posse	Pensteman
1975	Johnny Firecloud	Jesse
1990	In a Pig's Eye
1994	Secret Santa	Santa	Short

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1965-1966	Peyton Place	Dr. Russ Gehrig	26 episodes
1967	Gunsmoke	George McClaney	Episodes: "Nitro Part 1 & 2"
1967	Dundee and the Culhane	Charlie Montana	Episode: "The Dead Man's Brief"
1967	Cimarron Strip	Tal St. James	Episode: "Knife in the Darkness"
1967-1973	Bonanza	Candy Canaday	80 episodes
1971	The F.B.I.	Eugene Bradshaw	Episode: "The Last Job"
1971	Hawaii Five-O	George	Episode: "3000 Crooked Miles to Honolulu"
1971	Bearcats!	Joe Bascom	Episode: "The Hostage"
1971 1972	Alias Smith and Jones	Sheriff W.D. Coffin Doc Donovan	Episode: "Everything Else You Can Steal" Episode: "The Strange Fate of Conrad Meyer Zulick"
1973	Police Story	Wally Baker	Episode: "Death on Credit"
1973	Kung Fu	Frank Grogan	Episode: "The Elixir"
1973 1974	The Rookies	TJ Curlew Espositos	Episode: "Down Home Boy" Episode: "A Test of Courage"
1975	S.W.A.T.	Blake Phillips	Episode: "Kill S.W.A.T."
1978	The Dain Curse	Jack Santos
1978	Search for Tomorrow	Arthur Benson
1979-1980	The Doctors	Warner / "Far Wind"
1981-1983	Another World	Steve Frame
1982	American Playhouse	Bingham	Episode: "King of America"
1983-2011, 2013 1984-2009, 2011	All My Children	Adam Chandler Stuart Chandler	(final appearance)
1997	Remember WENN	Luke Langly	Episode: "Strange Bedfellows"
1998	Law & Order	Jeremy Orenstein	Episode: "Venom"
2000 2005	One Life to Live	Adam Chandler
2001	Touched by an Angel	Carter Winslow	Episodes: "Shallow Water Part 1 & 2"
2011	Curb Your Enthusiasm	White Haired Man at Park	Episode: "The Bi-Sexual"

Awards and nominations

Canary won five Daytime Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and was nominated an additional 11 times, most recently in 2008 for Best Lead Actor.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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