John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. Innate inside Toronto, Ontario, Canada of 3/4 Scottish and 1/4 Polish descent, Candy was the member of Toronto's The Second City comedy troupe & gained far flung Northerly Western popularity while, inside 1976, he became a cast member on the influential Toronto-depending TV comedy-variety Second City Television (SCTV).

From either there he went around to star in such Hollywood movies as Splash, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Spaceballs, ''Brewster's Millions and Uncle Buck. He typically played characters world health organization, when it lived somewhat seedy populates, often got their hearts in the perfect place. Confect was lauded by a select few as a confessedly funny genius & this put in his ability to portray an "everyman" that a audience can identify by having. Confect was as well the spectacular actor & appeared within films such as JFK and The Silent Partner.

In the 1980s Candy also appeared inside an HBO spoof documentary titled The Canadian Conspiracy about the supposed subversion of the United States by American-born media personalities.

Confect starred inside the short-passing animated series in 1989 entitled Camp Candy. A indicate, which was broadcast in Saturday mornings and was placed around the fabricated summer camp run by Candy, too featured his tikes Jennifer & Christopher Candy around supporting roles. a alive series besides spawned a brief comic book series according to the indicate & once again starring Confect; besides entitled Camp Confect'' it was published by Marvel Comics' Star Comics imprint.

In the early 1990s, Candy returned to animation to record the voice for the TV moving picture The Magic 7. Notwithstanding, this moving picture stayed inside production for the super long period, ascribable animation difficulties & production delays. It was shelved for quite a select few period, however is currently ascribable exist as freed within 2005, more than tenner years fallowing a actor's demise.

John Candy died at the immature age of 43 of a heart attack while filming on location around Durango, Mexico, for the movie Wagons East. He experienced been warned many days by his doctors to cut his weight due to his hereditary predisposition to heart disease from which his father had died however he refused, stating that his stout frame was what gave him his film roles. His heart attack was actually induced from either his existence the heavily smoker.

His funeral, held at St. Michael's Cathedral, was broadcast live on television across Canada. He is interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.

He is an inductee of Canada's Walk of Fame.

Filmography
''Class of '44 (1973) It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1975) Tunnel Vision (1976) The Clown Murders (1976) Find the Lady (1976) The Silent Partner (1978) Lost and Found (1979) 1941 (1979) Double Negative (1980) The Blues Brothers (1980) Stripes (1981) Heavy Metal (1981) (voice) It Came from Hollywood (1982) (documentary) National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) Going Berserk (1983) Splash (1984) Brewster's Millions (1985) Follow That Bird (1985) Summer Rental (1985) Volunteers (1985) Tears Are Not Enough (1985) (documentary) Armed and Dangerous (1986) Little Shop of Horrors (1986) Spaceballs (1987) Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) She's Having a Baby (1988) (Cameo) The Great Outdoors (1988) Hot to Trot (1988) (voice only) Who's Harry Crumb? (1989) (also executive producer) Speed Zone! (1989) Uncle Buck (1989) Masters of Menace (1990) (Cameo) Home Alone (1990) The Rescuers Down Under (1990) (voice) Nothing But Trouble (1991) Career Opportunities (1991) Only the Lonely (1991) Delirious (1991) JFK (1991) Once Upon a Crime... (1992) Boris and Natasha (1992) Rookie of the Year (1993) Cool Runnings (1993) Wagons East (1994) Canadian Bacon'' (1995)