David Canary

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-08-25 (77 years old)

Deathday

2015-11-16

Place of Birth

Elwood, Indiana, USA

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 ...

Acting

1967

1975

Posse

as Pensteman

1973

Incident on a Dark Street

as Peter Gallagher

1975

1982

King of America

as Bingham

1975

Melvin Purvis G-Man

as 'Gene' Eugene T. Farber

1975

1969

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

as Mr. Walski (uncredited)

1967

Hombre

as Lamar Dean

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