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David Canary's career started off in a way that some might call unexpected. Canary attended the University of Cincinnati on a football scholarship, played varsity ball throughout his college career, was a Pop Warner Scholastic All-American there, and graduated as a music major in voice from a unique university program that included study at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. A native of Elwood, Indiana, he grew up in Massillon, OH, not far from the Football Hall of Fame in Canton.

Mr. Canary went on to make his Broadway debut in Jose Quintero's production of Great Day in the Morning, with Colleen Dewhurst. Then came a draft call from the U.S. Army, and he entered and won the All Army Entertainment Contest for best popular singer. When Mr. Canary left the service, he restarted his career on the West Coast, starring in The Fantasticks in San Francisco. Television and movie roles followed.

Primetime television audiences knew him as Candy in Bonanza, as Russ Gehring in Peyton Place and from numerous guest appearances in other programs, including the made-for-television film The Dain Curse, opposite Ellis Rabb and Jean Simmons. Mr. Canary has also appeared on daytime television as Stephen Frame in Another World. Among his feature films are Hombre, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and End of a Dark Street. He starred with Marian Seldes in the independently produced comedy film, In a Pig's Eye. He has also been featured in Law & Order and Touched by an Angel.

Periodically Canary has returned to Broadway in such roles as Edouard in Tennessee Williams' Clothes for a Summer Hotel, opposite Geraldine Page and Kenneth Haigh, also directed by Jose Quintero. New York audiences have seen him on stage in the title role of Strindberg's The Father, as El Gallo in The Fantasticks, and in the Broadway musical The Happiest Girl in the World. Other credits includeBlood Moon, Sally's Gone, She Left Her Name with Michael Learned, The Night of the Bear, Cobb, and Orphans, by Lyle Kessler.

In regional and stock theater he played the title role in Macbeth at The Actors Theater of Louisville, Elyot in Noel Coward's Private Lives and a reprise of Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, for John Kenley in Ohio. He also played Macheath in The Beggar's Opera at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and Trigorin in The Sea Gull at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, and he starred in Sweeney Todd at the North Shore Music Theatre. Mr. Canary returned to North Shore in the fall of 1998 to play the mercurial poet in Kismet. He has also performed Clarence Darrow, a one-man play by David Rintels. Acting Portfolio Touched By An Angel
May 2001

All My Children
Stuart Chandler
Fall 1984 to May 18, 2009; March 4, 2010; April 21, 2010; September 21 to 23, 2011

All My Children
Adam Chandler
1983 to April 23, 2010; September 21 to 23, 2011

Another World
Steven Frame (#2)
1981-1983

Melvin Purvis: G-Man a.k.a The Legend of Machine Gun Kelly
Eugene T. Farber (a.k.a G-Man)
1974

Incident on a Dark Street
Peter Gallagher
1972

Hombre
Lamar Dean
1967

Bonanza
"Candy" Canaday
1967-1970, 1972-1973

Peyton Place
Dr Russ Gehring
1964 Acting Portfolio The Secret Santa
Santa
1994

Sharks' Treasure
Larry Hicks
1975

Johnny Firecloud
Sheriff Jesse
1975

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Frank Gusenberg
1967 Acting Portfolio Clothes for a Summer Hotel
Edouard

The Father
Title Role

The Fantasticks
El Gallo

The Happiest Girl in the World

Blood Moon Acting Portfolio The Beggar's Opera
Macheath
Minneapolis

The Sea Gull
Trigorin
Pittsburgh Public Theatre

Man of La Mancha
Don Quixote
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

Sweeney Todd
North Shore Music Theatre

Proof
The Players Guild Theatre in Canton, Ohio Daytime Emmys Winner, Outstanding Lead Actor (1986, 1988, 1989, 1993, 2001)

Daytime Emmys Nomination, Outstanding Lead Actor (1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2008)

Daytime Emmys Pre-Nomination, Outstanding Lead Actor (2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010)

Soap Opera Digest Awards Winner, Favorite Couple (Stuart Chandler and Marian Colby; 1999) PLACE OF BIRTH: Elwood, Indiana
DATE OF BIRTH: August 25, 1938
HEIGHT: 5' 11½"
MARITAL STATUS: Married, Maureen [1982 to Present]
MARITAL STUATS: Divorced, Julie M. Anderson
CHILDREN: Daughter, Lisa (a.k.a Diamond) by Julie. Daughter, Katy and son, Christopher, by Maureen. News Archive: David Canary sits down for a candid interview. [Jan 16, 2006]
News Archive: ABC confirms retirement of David Canary. [Feb 16, 2010]
News Archive: Canary, Julia Barr, Ray MacDonnell, and Lee Meriwether headed back to AMC. [Jul 15, 2011]

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