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Date of Birth:

31 October 1950, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Date of Death:

4 March 1994, Durango, Mexico (heart attack) 

Birth Name:

John Franklin Candy 

Height:

6' 2" (1.88 m) 

Biography;

John Candy is one of Canada's greatest, and funniest, character actors. His well-known role as the big hearted buffoon earned him classics in Uncle Buck (1989) and Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). His career has handed him some dry spells, but Candy always rebounded.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, in the year 1950, Candy found his passion for drama while attending a community college. He found a number of bit parts in Canadian television shows, and also in such small films as Tunnel Vision (1976) and Find the Lady (1976). However, his big success came at the age of twenty-seven, when he became part of the comedy group "Second City" in Toronto. Alongside such soon-to-be Canadian stars as Catherine O'Hara (one of Candy's lifelong friends), Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, and Harold Ramis, Candy was also part of the television show the group inspired. "SCTV" (1976) earned Candy a reputation for his quirky humour, and his uncanny imitations of others.

After the television series, Candy appeared alongside fellow Canadian Dan Aykroyd in the Steven Spielberg flop 1941 (1979). However, other jobs followed, and Candy landed a role, once again with Aykroyd, the successful classic The Blues Brothers (1980). Candy played a police officer who is part of the chase after Jake and Elwood Blues. The film was a hit, and Candy followed up accordingly.

Candy acted in the smash hit Stripes (1981) where he played a dopey, overweight recruit affectionately nicknamed 'Ox'. After the success ofStripes (1981), Candy returned to the Second City with the other former stars, in the television series "SCTV Network" (1981). Candy also hosted "Saturday Night Live" before landing himself a role in the Ron Howard film Splash (1984), a romantic comedy about a mermaid who washes ashore and learns to live like a human. Candy played a sleazy womanizing brother to the character played by Tom Hanks. The film was a bigger success than even Stripes (1981), and a number of people have said that Splash (1984) was his breakout role.

Candy took a second billing in the comedic film Brewster's Millions (1985) where a man must spend thirty million in order to inherit three hundred million from his deceased relative. Candy played the man's best friend, who accidentally gets in the way as much as helping out. Candy continued making films tirelessly, including the film Armed and Dangerous (1986) where he and Eugene Levy play characters who become security guards.

1987 was an especially good year to Candy, giving him two classic roles: Barf the Mawg in the Mel Brooks comedy Spaceballs (1987) and the bumbling salesman Del Griffith alongside Steve Martin's uptight character in the John Hughes film Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). The latter film is a golden classic, and is one of Candy's greatest films. He followed up immediately with The Great Outdoors (1988), once again alongside Dan Aykroyd. Candy landed another classic role in the film Uncle Buck (1989) which was about a bumbling uncle who must look after his brother's three children.

Although he was in the smash hit Home Alone (1990), Candy's career fell into a slump, turning out unsuccessful films in the early nineties. This caused him to change his strategy by taking more serious roles. The first of these serious roles was the corrupt lawyer Dean Andrews in the 'Oliver Stone' film JFK (1991). The film was a big success, and Candy moved on from this victory to make the film Cool Runnings (1993) about the first Jamaican bobsled team.

Candy was well known for his size, usually at six feet two, and weighing around 300 pounds. However, he was very sensitive about the subject, and in the nineties tried to lose weight and quit smoking. He was aware that heart attacks were in his family: both his father and his grandfather died of heart attacks, and Candy wanted to prevent that happening to him as best he could.

In the mid-nineties, Candy filmed the Michael Moore comedy Canadian Bacon (1995), and went to Mexico to film the western spoof Wagons East (1994). It was in Mexico that Candy had a heart attack, and passed away in March 1994. "Canadian Bacon" was released a year after his death, and is his last film to date.

Candy was loved by thousands of people who had loved his classic antics in Splash (1984) and The Great Outdoors (1988). He was well-known for his roles in Stripes (1981) and Uncle Buck (1989), and he himself never forgot his Canadian background.

Spouse:

 Rosemary Margaret Hobor(28 April 1979 - 4 March 1994) (his death) 2 children

Television:

Year	Television	Role	Notes
1972	Cucumber	Weatherman	(unknown episodes)
	Dr. Simon Locke	Richie	Episode: "Death Holds the Scale"
1974	The ABC Afternoon Playbreak	2nd Son	Episode: "Last Bride of Salem"
	Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins		(unknown episodes)
1976	The David Steinberg Show	Spider Reichman	Episode one Episode two
	90 Minutes Live	(Various)	TV series
1976–1977	Coming Up Rosie	Wally Wypyzypychwk	TV series
1976–1979	Second City TV	(Various)	50 episodes
1977	King of Kensington	Bandit	Episode: "The Hero"
1980	The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog	Pinky	TV film
	Big City Comedy	Himself (host) / Various	TV series (sketch comedy)
1981	Tales of the Klondike		TV mini-series
	Saturday Night Live	Juan Gavino	Episode: "George Kennedy/Miles Davis" (uncredited)
1981–1983	SCTV Network 90	(Various)	38 episodes
1983	SCTV Channel	(Various)	Episode: "Maudlin O' the Night"
1984	The New Show	(Various)	Five episodes
1985	Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas	Marcel	TV film
	The Canadian Conspiracy	(Various)	TV film
	The Last Polka	Yosh Shmenge/Pa Shmenge	TV film
1987	Really Weird Tales	Howard Jensen ('Cursed with Charisma')	TV film
1989	The Rocket Boy	The Hawk	TV film
	Camp Candy	Himself	Voice
1990	The Dave Thomas Comedy Show		One episode
1992	Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories	Narrator	Episode: "Blumpoe the Grumpoe Meets Arnold the Cat/Millions of Cats"
1994	Hostage for a Day	Yuri Petrovich	TV film

Filmography:

Year	Movie	Role	Notes
1970	Hercules in New York	Dock Fighter	Uncredited
1973	Class of '44	Paule	Uncredited
1975	It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time	Kopek
1976	Tunnel Vision	Cooper
	The Clown Murders	Ollie
	Find the Lady	Kopek
1978	The Silent Partner	Simonsen
1979	Lost and Found	Carpentier
	1941	Pvt. Foley
1980	Deadly Companion	John	Alternative Title: Double Negative
	The Blues Brothers	Burton Mercer
1981	Stripes	Dewey "Ox" Oxberger
	Heavy Metal	Desk Sergeant, Dan/Den, Robot	Voice Only
1982	It Came from Hollywood	Himself
1983	National Lampoon's Vacation	Lasky (Guard at 'Walleyworld')
	Going Berserk	John Bourgignon
1984	Splash	Freddie Bauer
1985	Brewster's Millions	Spike Nolan
	Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird	Policeman
	Summer Rental	Jack Chester
	Volunteers	Tom Tuttle
1986	Armed and Dangerous	Frank Dooley
	Little Shop of Horrors	Wink Wilkinson
1987	Spaceballs	Barf
	Planes, Trains and Automobiles	Del Griffith
1988	The Great Outdoors	Chet Ripley
	She's Having a Baby	Chet from 'The Great Outdoors'	Uncredited
	Hot to Trot	Don	Voice Only
1989	Who's Harry Crumb?	Harry Crumb	Also Executive Producer
	Speed Zone!	Charlie Cronan
	Uncle Buck	Buck Russell
1990	Masters of Menace	Beer Truck Driver
	Home Alone	Gus Polinski – Polka King of the MidWest
	The Rescuers Down Under	Wilbur	Voice Only
1991	Nothing But Trouble	Deputy Dennis / Eldona
	Career Opportunities	C.D. Marsh	Uncredited
	Only the Lonely	Danny Muldoon
	Delirious	Jack Gable
	JFK	Dean Andrews Jr.
1992	Once Upon a Crime...	Augie Morosco
	Boris and Natasha: The Movie	Kalishak
1993	Rookie of the Year	Cliff Murdoch (Announcer)	Uncredited
	Cool Runnings	Irving 'Irv' Blitzer
1994	Wagons East!	James Harlow	Final role; died during filming
1995	Canadian Bacon	Sheriff Bud Boomer	Filmed in 1993; posthumous release
2009	The Magic 7	Smokestack Sam	Voice; Produced in 1990-1993; Movie never released

Salary:

Splash (1984)$350,000

Summer Rental (1985)$800,000

Armed and Dangerous (1986)$2,000,000