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Candy was one of Canada's greatest and funniest character actors. His well-known role as the big hearted buffoon earned him classics in Uncle Buck (1989) and Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). His career has handed him some dry spells but Candy always rebounded.
Born in Newmarket, Ontario, in the year 1950, Candy was the son of Evangeline (Aker) and Sidney James Candy. His mother was of Ukrainian and Polish ancestry. Candy found his passion for drama while attending a community college. In 1971 Candy made his TV debut in an episode of Police Surgeon (1971) co-starring Sharon Farrell, John Hamelin, and Nick Mancuso. Candy then found a number of bit parts in other Canadian television shows and also in such small films as Tunnel Vision (1976) and Find the Lady (1976). However, his big success came at the age of twenty-seven, when he became part of the comedy group "Second City" in Toronto. Alongside such soon-to-be Canadian stars as Catherine O'Hara (one of Candy's lifelong friends), Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, and Harold Ramis, Candy was also part of the television show the group inspired. SCTV (1976) earned Candy a reputation for his quirky humor and his uncanny 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, once again with Aykroyd, in the successful classic The Blues Brothers (1980). Candy played a parole officer who is part of the chase after Jake and Elwood Blues. The film was a hit 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 SCTV Network (1981). Candy also hosted "Saturday Night Live" before landing himself a role in the Ron Howard film Splash (1983), a romantic comedy about a mermaid who washes ashore and learns to live like a human. Candy played a sleazy womanizing brother to the character played by Tom Hanks. The film was a bigger success than even Stripes (1981) and a number of people have said that Splash (1983) was his breakout role.
He took a second billing in the comedic film Brewster's Millions (1985) where a man must spend thirty million in order to inherit three hundred million from his deceased relative. Candy played the man's best 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 security guards.
1987 was an especially good year to Candy, giving him two classic roles: Barf the Mawg in the Mel Brooks comedy Spaceballs (1987) and the bumbling salesman Del Griffith alongside Steve Martin's uptight character in the John Hughes film Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). The latter film is a golden classic and is one of Candy's greatest films. He followed up immediately with The Great Outdoors (1988), once again alongside Dan Aykroyd. Candy landed another classic role in the film Uncle Buck (1989) which was about a bumbling uncle who must look after his brother's three children.
Although he was in the smash hit Home Alone (1990), Candy's career fell into a slump, turning out unsuccessful films in the early nineties. This caused him to change his strategy by taking more serious roles. The first 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 moved on from this victory to make the film Cool Runnings (1993) about the first Jamaican bobsled team.
Candy was well known for his size, six feet two and weighing around 300 pounds. However, he was very sensitive about the subject and in the nineties tried to lose weight and quit smoking. He was aware that heart attacks were in his family: both his father and his grandfather died of heart attacks and Candy wanted to prevent that happening to him as best he could.
In the mid-nineties Candy filmed the Michael Moore comedy Canadian Bacon (1995) then went to Mexico to film the western spoof Wagons East (1994). It was in Mexico that Candy had a heart attack and passed away in March 1994. Canadian Bacon (1995) was released a year after his death and is his last film.
Candy was loved by thousands of people who loved his classic antics in Splash (1983) 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.- Actor
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Versatile, no other adjective could apply better to the art and personality of Gianni Agus. He indeed worked in the theater, in the cinema, on television, in variety shows. He could be an actor (from romantic lead in his first plays to sidekick to Totò to character actor in Pirandello plays), a TV host or the M.C of the San Remo song contest of 1958. He could sing and dance, perform alone or as part of a company. Yes, Agus could do everything including promoting the career of Vittorio Gassman... who was chosen to replace him after he had slapped the leading actress of his theater company! Gianni Agus appeared in lots of Italian films. He was particularly good as Count Almaviva in Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia "Figaro qua, Figaro là" (1950), as the fascist official in "Il federale" by Luciano Salce (1961), as the fascist mayor in Sergio Corbucci's best film "I due marescialli" 1961) and as Sergio in Dino Risi's "Mordi e fuggi" (1972). Of course Agus lent talent to a series of appalling z comedies. But he was an entertainer first and foremost. If he was given the opportunity to entertain the Italian audience he never turned his nose up at it. That is the reason why he is still fondly remembered by his fellow-countrymen. They are aware that through his nondiscriminatory choices Agus respected them all, whether highbrow or lowbrow.- Bobbie La Salle was born on 7 June 1912 in Alabama, USA. She was an actress, known for Rhinestone (1984). She was married to Will Kopman. She died on 4 March 1994 in Valley Village, California, USA.
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Guus Verstraete was born on 24 December 1914 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor and director, known for Uit het leven van Dik Trom (1941), Kermis in de Regen (1962) and Claudia (1959). He was married to Lia Dorana and Dientje Nijbacker. He died on 4 March 1994 in Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands.- Natalie Hall was born on 23 September 1904 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She was an actress, known for Tropical Trouble (1936) and The Way of the World (1955). She was married to Barry MacKay. She died on 4 March 1994 in Edgecomb, Maine, USA.
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Cihat Burak (Istanbul, 8 August1915 - 4 March 1994) Cihat Burak (Istanbul, 8 August 1915 - 4 March 1994) Storyteller, architect, painter. He graduated from Galatasaray High School and Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Architecture (1943). He worked as an architect at the General Directorate of Tekel and the Ministry of Public Works. In 1952, he went to Paris on a United Nations scholarship. He returned to Turkey in 1955 and again worked at the Ministry of Public Works. He drew the projects of buildings such as Gaziantep Government House, Izmit Courthouse, Ankara Banknote Printing House, Rize Courthouse, Besiktas Sair Nedim Primary School. He went to Paris again in 1961, during which time he left the ministry and focused on painting. After returning to Turkey in 1965, he opened various exhibitions at home and abroad and participated in group exhibitions.