John Candy

Acting · Born 1950-10-31 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Biography

John Franklin Candy (October 30, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian actor and comedian. He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto, Ontario branch of The Second City, its related Second City Television series, and in his role in comedy films such as Stripes, Splash, Cool Runnings, The Great Outdoors, and Uncle Buck. One of his most renowned onscreen performances was that of Del Griffith, the loquacious, on the move, shower curtain ring salesman in the John Hughes comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

Filmography

• Cool Runnings as Irv
• The Blues Brothers as Burton Mercer
• Home Alone as Gus Polinski
• JFK as Dean Andrews
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles as Del Griffith
• Little Shop of Horrors as Wink Wilkinson
• National Lampoon's Vacation as Lasky, Guard at Walleyworld
• Spaceballs as Barf
• Canadian Bacon as Sheriff Bud B. Boomer
• Only the Lonely as Danny Muldoon

TV

• Second City Television as Self - Various Characters
• Late Night with David Letterman as Self
• Camp Candy as (voice)
• The New Show
• The David Steinberg Show
• Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
• Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories as Narrator (voice)
• Dinah! as Self
• SCTV Network 90 as Various
• Saturday Night Live as Juan Gavino (uncredited)