Meet David Canary
Five-time Emmy Award-winning actor David Canary, who began his career on the Broadway stage and in Hollywood film and television productions, plays the powerful and mercurial Adam Chandler as well as Adam's shy, gentle twin, Stuart.
He was honored with Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor for his portrayal of Adam and Stuart Chandler in 1986, 1988, 1989, 1993 and 1995, and has received a nomination in 1997. "It's fun playing two roles," said David. "The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected."
David's youth
And David Canary often has done the unexpected. For example, he attended the University of Cincinnati on a football scholarship, played varsity ball throughout his college career and graduated as a music major specializing in voice in a unique university program that combined study at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. A native of Elwood, Indiana, he grew up in Massillon, Ohio, not far from the Football Hall of Fame in Canton.
David on Broadway
David went on to make his Broadway debut in Jose Quintero's production of "Great Day in the Morning," with Colleen Dewhurst. Then came a draft call from the U.S. Army and he entered and won the All Army Entertainment Contest for best popular singer. When David left the service, he restarted his career on the West Coast, starring in "The Fantasticks" in San Francisco. Then came television and movie roles.
David on television
Primetime television audiences know him as Candy in "Bonanza." In this western David Canary played ranch foreman Candy Canaday from 1968-1970. And then again from 1972-73.
David became almost like family to the Cartwrights, Joe and Hoss and Candy would get into the same comical and serious situations together. Occasionally David would get his own story for the show.
Further we know David as Russ Gehring in "Peyton Place" and from numerous guest appearances in other programs, including the made-for-television film,"The Dain Curse," opposite Ellis Rabb and Jean Simmons. He also appeared on daytime television as Stephen Frame in "Another World." Among his feature films are "Hombre," "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" and "End of a Dark Street." He also starred with Marian Seldes in the independently produced comedy film, "In a Pig's Eye."
Back to stage
Periodically, David has returned to Broadway in such roles as Edouard in Tennessee Williams' "Clothes 
for a Summer Hotel" opposite Geraldine Page and Kenneth Haigh, also directed by Jose Quintero.
New York audiences have seen him on stage in the title role of Strindberg's "The Father," as El Gallo in "The Fantasticks," in the Broadway musical, "The Happiest Girl in the World," and "Blood Moon."
More recently, he appeared in "Sally's Gone, She Left Her Name" with Michael Learned; and "The Night of the Bear"; and is scheduled to appear this fall off-Broadway in "Cobb," written by Lee Blessing.
In regional and stock theater, he played the title role in "Macbeth" at Actors Theater of Louisville, Elyot in Noel Coward's "Private Lives"; and a reprise of Don Quixote in "Man of La Mancha," for John Kenley in Ohio. He also played Macheath in "The Beggar's Opera" at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Trigorin in "The Sea Gull" at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, and starred in "Sweeney Todd" at the North Shore Music Theatre.
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