David Canary

Acting

David Canary

Born 1938-08-25 · Elwood, Indiana, USA

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.

Acting credits

Hombre poster
7.1

John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws.

Hombre

1967

Posse poster
6.0

A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious train robber and his gang.

Posse

1975

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes poster
6.0

Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a computer; now he remembers everything he reads. Unfortunately, he also remembers information which was in the computer's memory, like Arno's illegal businesses..

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

1969

Incident on a Dark Street poster
5.3

A small-time hood is murdered just as he is about to blow the whistle on an organized crime ring.

Incident on a Dark Street

1973

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre poster
6.3

Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

1967

Sharks' Treasure poster
5.3

Eccentric charter skipper Jim Carnahan and his team of hard-luck dreamers battle sharks, bandits and their own greed to recover sunken treasure

Sharks' Treasure

1975

No artwork available
NR

Shows a cigarette smoker's convention in a hotel where everyone has some kind of sleep disorder ranging from insomnia, narcolepsy, sleepwalking, and even sleeptalking. Then a skateboard surf/punk and his super-intelligent piglet pull some surprises on the confused conventioneers.

In a Pig's Eye

1989

King of America poster
9.0

Hot-tempered Greek immigrant Andreas arrives in America in 1915. He finds work on a railroad, but soon gives his corrupt foreman Mekakis a savage beating. Making his way west across the country, Andreas eventually comes upon another railroad looking for workers. It turns out Mekakis has gone westward, too. He offers Andreas the only job suitable for him, a "mountain mover" on the suicide squad: He must grapple down the face of a cliff, position sticks of dynamite and then climb back up again before the lit fuses reach the explosive.

King of America

1982

Melvin Purvis G-Man poster
6.3

Agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly, and sets out to do just that.

Melvin Purvis G-Man

1975

Johnny Firecloud poster
5.0

An American Indian war veteran avenges the hanging of his grandfather by local thugs.

Johnny Firecloud

1975

Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love poster
8.0

A tribute to one of Hollywood's most beloved and respected actors.

Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love

1991