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David Hoyt Canary (born August 25, 1938 in Elwood, Indiana) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor, who starred in both soap operas and prime time television. Events 1248 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III the Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Elwood is a city in Madison County, Indiana, United States. It is part of the Anderson Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 1248 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III the Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Elwood is a city in Madison County, Indiana, United States. It is part of the Anderson Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic He is best known for his roles as the ranch foreman, Candy Canaday on Bonanza (a role he played from 1967-1970; 1972-1973) and Adam & Stuart Chandler on All My Children (1983-present). Bonanza is an American television series that ran on NBC from September 12 1959 to January 16 1973 All My Children ( AMC) is a popular American Soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC
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Biography
Early life
David Canary grew up and attended high school in Massillon, Ohio, playing football for the famed Massillon Tigers of Washington High School before earning a football scholarship to the University of Cincinnati, where he trained as a singer and became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. Massillon is a city in Stark County in the US state of Ohio. The population was 31325 at the 2000 census. The University of Cincinnati is a Coeducational public Research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sigma Chi ( ΣΧ) is one of the largest and oldest all-male college Greek-letter social fraternities and a Secret society. Soon acting became his goal, following college performances and summer stock shows.
Career
After a semi-regular role as a doctor in the prime time serial Peyton Place, Canary first came to prominence in 1967 on the Western series Bonanza. Peyton Place is an American primetime Drama serial which aired on ABC in half-hour episodes from September 15 Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The Western is a fiction Genre seen in Film, Television, Radio, Literature, Painting and other Visual arts. Bonanza is an American television series that ran on NBC from September 12 1959 to January 16 1973
The year 1967 was very good to Canary and his resume. Canary did the classic western movie Hombre with Paul Newman and Cameron Mitchell, guest starred in a two-part Gunsmoke episode, and played a mobster with Jason Robards in the movie, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Hombre is a 1967 Revisionist Western film directed by Martin Ritt, based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard. Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston The St Valentine's Day Massacre is a 1967 Film based on the 1929 Chicago gang shootings of the St
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 as replacements for Mr. Spock. Leonard Simon Nimoy (born March 26, 1931) is an American Actor, Film director, Poet, Musician and Star Trek is a Science fiction Television series created by Gene Roddenberry that aired from September 8, 1966 through Robert Harris "Bob" Justman ( July 13, 1926 – May 28, 2008) worked in Hollywood as a producer director production manager Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19 1921 &ndash October 24 1991 was an American Screenwriter and producer. Spock (sometimes referred to as Mr Spock) is a main character in the original Star Trek TV series As revealed in Solow and Justman's book, Star Trek - The Inside Story, Canary was one of the "A List" candidates. When David Dortort ("Bonanza", "High Chaparral", "The Cowboys", and "Ponderosa" creator/ producer) was looking for a new Ponderosa foreman, he saw Canary in Hombre and cast him in the role. Canary left Bonanza in 1970 after his own contract dispute with the show's producers. He would return after co-star Dan Blocker's May 1972 death. Dan Blocker ( December 10 1928 &ndash May 13 1972) was an American Actor best remembered for his role as Eric 'Hoss' Canary said that he loved "Bonanza", except for the on-location filming in over 100 degree heat.
In 1981, he assumed the role of Steve Frame on the soap opera Another World. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. Another World is a television Soap opera that ran on the NBC network from May 4 1964 to June 25 1999. However, the effort to revive the Steve/Alice/Rachel triangle was largely unsuccessful and Canary left the show in 1983, after the character of Steve Frame was killed off in a car crash. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar)
That same year, he joined the cast of All My Children in the role of the cunning Adam Chandler. All My Children ( AMC) is a popular American Soap opera and drama television series that has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC Adam Chandler Sr is a Fictional character from the daytime drama All My Children, portrayed by David Canary, from 1983 to present The following year, he was also cast as Adam's meek -- perhaps developmentally-challenged -- twin brother, Stuart. Stuart Chandler is a Fictional character in the Soap opera All My Children. He has played the twins since (and as per SAG stipulations, gets paid double for performing two parts).
Additional daytime television roles have included the part of a cult leader on The Doctors and a role on Search for Tomorrow. The Doctors was a Soap opera which aired on NBC from April 1 1963 to December 31 1982 Search for Tomorrow is a Soap opera which started airing on Monday September 3, 1951 on CBS. Other prime time guest appearances include: Alias Smith and Jones, "Hawaii Five-0", Remember WENN, and Touched By An Angel. Alias Smith and Jones is a Western Television series on ABC from 1971 to 1973 Remember WENN is an Emmy -winning Television series that aired from 1996 to 1998 on the cable channel American Movie Classics. Touched by an Angel is an American Drama Television series that chronicles the missions of a group of Angels sent by God
He has won five Daytime Emmy Awards as 'Outstanding Lead Actor', and has been nominated an additional ten times. The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York -based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles -based Academy The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series is an award which has been given every year at the Daytime Emmys ceremony since 1974. He has been nominated again in 2008 for a Daytime Emmy for Best Lead Actor. A baritone, Canary has performed in such musicals as, "Man of La Mancha", "Sweeny Todd", "Kismet" and "Carousel", as well as performing in dramatic pieces such as "The Seagul", and the one man play "Clarence Darrow". Canary's favorite stage performance was when he did Tennessee Williams' Broadway production of "Clothes for a Summer Hotel" with Geraldine Page.
Canary is known to be most affable and accessible to fans of both "All My Children" and "Bonanza". At Disney resorts, he has done "meet and greet" appearances signing autographs for AMC fans. The actor has also made several appearances at the Lake Tahoe site of the Ponderosa ranch, a tourist attraction from 1967-2004.
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 (play) in Canton, OH, near his hometown of Massilon. David Auburn (born 1969 is an American Playwright. He was born in Chicago, and raised in Ohio and Arkansas. Proof is a play by David Auburn originally produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club on May 23, 2000. Canton is a city in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Stark County.
Personal life
Canary is married to actress Maureen Maloney, with whom he has a son and daughter. Canary also has an older daughter from a previous marriage. He is the brother of actor John Canary, who once had a role on All My Children. The brothers are descended from folk figure Calamity Jane, also known as Martha Jane Canary ("Bonanza Gold", April 2006). Martha Jane Cannary-Burke, better known as Calamity Jane ( May 1 1852 &ndash August 1 1903) was a Frontierswoman
External links
- David Canary at the Internet Movie Database
- David Canary web page
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