David Hoyt Canary (August 25, 1938 â€" November 16, 2015) was an
American actor. Canary is best known for his role 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.Canary was born in
Elwood, Indiana, but grew up in Massillon, Ohio. He was the middle son
of Hillary Canary and Lorena Heal. His brothers are actor John Canary,
who once had a role on All My Children, and writer Hilary Glenn Canary
(1934â€"2008). The brothers are purportedly great-great-nephews of
Martha Jane Canary, a.k.a. Calamity Jane.Canary starred as an end on
both offense and defense at Massillon Washington High School, where he
graduated in 1956. The school honored him as a Distinguished Citizen
35 years later in 1991. 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. Canary trained
as a singer at the university's College of Arts and Sciences and
received his bachelor's degree in music in 1960. He was picked by the
Denver Broncos in the inaugural 1960 American Football League (AFL)
draft. 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."
American actor. Canary is best known for his role 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.Canary was born in
Elwood, Indiana, but grew up in Massillon, Ohio. He was the middle son
of Hillary Canary and Lorena Heal. His brothers are actor John Canary,
who once had a role on All My Children, and writer Hilary Glenn Canary
(1934â€"2008). The brothers are purportedly great-great-nephews of
Martha Jane Canary, a.k.a. Calamity Jane.Canary starred as an end on
both offense and defense at Massillon Washington High School, where he
graduated in 1956. The school honored him as a Distinguished Citizen
35 years later in 1991. 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. Canary trained
as a singer at the university's College of Arts and Sciences and
received his bachelor's degree in music in 1960. He was picked by the
Denver Broncos in the inaugural 1960 American Football League (AFL)
draft. 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."
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