[rexthecat]

Candy was a very funny man. But he ate too much, smoked too much and drank too much.

[DarrellZero]

He seemed like a good guy that couldn’t overcome his addictions.

Roger Ebert told the story of finding John drinking alone in a bar one night, shortly after Planes Trains and Automobiles came out. He thought that no one really liked him.

Really sad.

[Mean Daddy]

I think it was during the filming of Stripes, Candy kept a bathtub full of beer because where it was filmed was a dry county.

[toddausauras]

That was a sad day.

[Mean Daddy]

There’s also a story about when he was filming Splash that the night before they filmed the racquet ball scene, he had spent the night before partying with Jack Nicholson into the wee hours of the morning. I look forward to seeing the documentary.

[SkyDancer]

But the thing is that during his stand-up comedy routines every other word out of his mouth was an expletive.

[ConservativeMind]

My wife and I just enjoyed the man.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles was just a perfect film and you can’t help but tear up.

I can say I visited the hotel that the “pillows” scene was filmed in—simply because of that movie.

[RckyRaCoCo]

He was gold on SCTV

[foundedonpurpose]

We all go home in some manor.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

Thinking about it now, Jennifer Sullivan has officially outlived her father (she turned 44 last year), and Chris Candy is now 40.

John died at 43.