Posted on 11/24/2015 7:05:27 PM PST by DemforBush
David Canary, who for nearly three decades played the twin brothers Adam and Stuart Chandler on the ABC soap opera All My Children, has died. He was 77.
Canary, who earlier portrayed Candy Canaday, the ranch foreman of the Ponderosa, on the iconic NBC Western Bonanza, died Nov. 16 of natural causes...
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I remember David Canary as the guy in the movie “Hombre” who had a glass of mezcal smashed into his face with the butt of Paul Newman’s rifle in the cantina. Later, Newman winds up shooting Canary in the face after Canary recognizes that Newman had waxed him earlier in the cantina.
My favorite lines in the movie, though, are delivered by Richard Boone to Paul Newman. “Mister, you’ve got a lot of hard bark on you, coming down here like this. Now, I owe you. You put two holes in me.” “Well, now, what do you think hell is gonna look like.”
(I am kidding, of course....but there are fewer of us around every year.)
I'm one of the few. In fact I remember when it was a "new" Western on TV competing with all the other Westerns.
Mitch Vogel who played Jamie.
Ray Teal played the Sheriff.
Trivia Question; Who played the deputy?
Actor, minor league baseball team owner and father of Kurt Russell, Bing Russell.
OH he was a very good actor, great on all my children, I mean I only watched if very briefly, but him I remember. He played those two different guys so well.
Wasn’t one of them very evil and conniving and the other very sweet and simple minded?
RIP, you did good work!
Wow! Thanks. Didn’t remember that either.
“It will be a great day when there is a cure for Alzheimer”.
It will be an even better day when they find a cure for diabetes.
Wonderful memories! Sunday nights were a huge deal for my little sister and me.
You forgot, though, before Wonderful World of Disney, we got Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom! We thought Marlon Perkins was a bit of a lightweight; his sidekick, Jim (I think) did all the real adventuring.
Bittersweet memory: We got excited when Wonderful World of Disney was billed as being in "living color," but, of course, we were too poor to have a color television... I was nearly grown before I had an appreciation of how my parents struggled in those early years. My mother married at 18, I was born a year later and my sister a year after that. Dad was only 2 years older than my Mom. Things were so tough for them, but they hung together all those years. She died a brutal death of ovarian cancer, and he just gave up and died himself within a year.
The sidekick was Jim Hurlbut.
Thank you! It was so long ago, I wasn’t sure if I was remembering correctly.
I am sorry to hear about your mom and dad passing.
We were poor but didn’t know it.
My father lost his job of 25 years and spent his severance check, $500, on the color TV. It was an RCA model. We had that one luxury. Wow—was it great to see things in color. In 1964, some shows were still in black and white—color was pretty standard by the 1966 fall season.
He worked in menial machine shop jobs for the next 15 years until retirement, after being a supervisor over an entire plant in the job he lost when the company was bought out by a firm that moved the operation from NJ to Wisconsin.
And you are right—I did forget about Marlon Perkins and the Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom. It was always great when the guest animal would not behave for his sidekick Jim.
He came into a deli where we were hanging out in downtown NY. He been on the soap opera for years. Everyone yelled out “Candy”. He was very nice. Big grin.
That was David Carradine, who is also dead.
In a completely flat unemotional voice: "I think Jim may be tiring."
I remember my mother cackled about that for weeks afterward.
Did they even play Polo on the Ponderosa?
Regards,
Yes, that will be a great day too.
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