John Candy

John glass is one of Canadas greatest, and funniest, fictional calibre actors. His well-known affair as the big hearted buffoon earned him unadulterateds in Uncle Buck (1989) and Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). His career has handed him some dry spells, but glaze over always rebounded. Born in Toronto, Ontario, in the year 1950, glaze over anchor 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 pictorial matters as tunnel Vision (1976) and Find the Lady (1976).However, his big victor came at the ripen of twenty-seven, when he became part of the comedy group Second urban center in Toronto. Alongside such soon-to-be Canadian stars as Catherine OHara (one of candys lifelong friends), Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, and Harold Ramis, Candy was also part of the television show the group inspired. Second City TV (1976) earned Candy a reputation for his quirky humour, and his transce ndental 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, at once over again with Aykroyd, the successful classic The Blues Brothers (1980). Candy played a practice of law officer who is part of the chase after Jake and Elwood Blues. The film was a slip up, 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 of Stripes (1981), Candy returned to the Second City with the other former stars, in the television series SCTV Network 90 (1981).Candy also hosted Saturday Night function before landing himself a role in the Ron Howard film sprinkle (1984), a romantic comedy ab come forth a mermaid who washes ashore and learns to run like a human. Candy played a sleazy womanizing buddy to the character played by Tom Hanks. The film was a large success than even Stripes (1981), and a number of people carry said that Splash (1984) was his breakout role. Candy took a second accusation in the comedic film Brewsters Millions (1985) where a man must spend cardinal trillion in order to inherit three hundred million from his deceased relative.Candy played the mans scoop 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 guarantor guards. 1987 was an especially good year to Candy, giving him two classic roles bum the Mawg in the Mel Brooks comedy Spaceballs (1987) and the bumbling salesman Del Griffith alongside Steve Martins uptight character in the John Hughes film Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). The latter film is a friendly classic, and is one of Candys greatest films.He followed up immediately with The Great Outdoors (1988), once again alon gside Dan Aykroyd. Candy landed another classic role in the film Uncle Buck (1989) which was about a bumbling uncle who must look after his brothers three children. Although he was in the smash hit Home Alone (1990), Candys career fell into a slump, turning out unsuccessful films in the early nineties. This caused him to change his strategy by pickings more serious roles. The firstborn 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 travel 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 handsome about the subject, and in the nineties tried to lose weight and throw overboard smoking. He was aware that heart attacks were in his family both his father and his grandpa died of heart attacks, and Candy wanted to prevent that happening to hi m 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 outside in March 1994. Canadian Bacon was released a year after his death, and is his prevail 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. John Candy was a hard act to follow, and his legacy will remain with us for many more years.