1. David Canary was born in Elwood, Indiana, and grew up in Massillon, Ohio.
21 Facts About David Canary
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David Canary was the middle son of Hilary Canary and Lorena Heal.
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David Canary's brothers were actor John Canary, who once had a role in All My Children, and writer Hilary Glenn Canary.
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David Canary starred as an end on both offense and defense on the football team at Massillon Washington High School, where he graduated in 1956.
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David Canary earned a football scholarship to the University of Cincinnati, where he was a three-year letterman from 1957 to 1959 and the recipient of the John Pease Award, as the program's best lineman, in his junior and senior years.
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David Canary trained as a singer at the university's College of Arts and Sciences and received his bachelor's degree in music in 1960.
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David Canary was picked by the Denver Broncos in the inaugural 1960 American Football League draft.
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David Canary served two years in the United States Army, where he entered an All-Army Entertainment Contest in 1963.
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David Canary guest-starred in the two-part episode of CBS's Gunsmoke entitled "Nitro" as George McClaney, a poor man who found high pay creating nitroglycerin.
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David Canary played mobster Frank Gusenberg in the film The St Valentine's Day Massacre and appeared on the short-lived CBS Western Dundee and the Culhane.
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David Canary returned in May 1972 after Dan Blocker's death.
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David Canary had two short stints on The Doctors as Far Wind, a cult leader who took the hospital staff hostage and killed Melissa Dancy.
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David Canary retired from full-time acting and departed from All My Children in 2010; his last episode was taped in late March and aired on April 23,2010.
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David Canary announced that he intended to return to AMC occasionally.
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David Canary reprised both of his roles as Adam and Stuart Chandler for several days before the series finale on ABC on September 23,2011.
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David Canary was known to be affable and accessible to fans of both All My Children and Bonanza.
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David Canary made several appearances at the Lake Tahoe site of the Ponderosa Ranch, a tourist attraction from 1967 to 2004.
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In March 2012, David Canary was named as the replacement for the ailing, 90-year-old Jack Klugman in a limited-run production of Twelve Angry Men in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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David Canary was married to actress Maureen Maloney, with whom he had a son, Chris, and a daughter, Kate.
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David Canary died on November 16,2015 at an assisted living facility in Wilton, Connecticut, at the age of 77; he had been diagnosed with dementia years before.
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David Canary won five Daytime Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and was nominated an additional 11 times, most recently in 2008 for Best Lead Actor.