John Candy. Actor: Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Candy was one of Canada's greatest and funniest character actors. His well-known role as the big-hearted buffoon earned him classic appearances in Uncle Buck (1989) and Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987).
From his rise to prominence on the popular Canadian sketch comedy seriesSCTVto his major starring roles in amusing hits such asPlanes, Trains and Automobiles,Spaceballs, andUncle Buck, Candy amassed an impressive and hilarious acting career during his lifetime. Users onLetterboxdcertainly agree, sinc...
Candy went on to film more classic comedies like "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" and "Uncle Buck," before he died in 1994 at the age of 43 from a heart attack in his sleep. Sponsored Stories You May Like Recommended by Trending Garth Brooks Garth Brooks gave up ...
In 1983, Candy headlined in the film Going Berserk, and was also approached to play the character of accountant Louis Tully in Ghostbusters (completed and released in 1984), but ultimately did not get the role because of his conflicting ideas of how to play the character; the part went inst...
Many of Candy's best films involved another certain '80s icon: John Hughes. First, Candy had a small role inNational Lampoon's Vacation, which Hughes wrote. The actor then co-led the director's wonderfulPlanes, Trains and Automobilesalongside Steve Martin before doing the same alongside Dan ...
Steve Martin attempts to get a bus full of people to sing the 1954 theme song from the romance filmThree Coins in the Fountain, with no success. Much to his chagrin, John Candy’s irritating (though lovable) character Del Griffith got plenty of response to his “Meet the Flintstones”. ...
John Candy, the hefty comic who rose to fame in a series of slapstick films that brought smiles to the faces of studio financiers and shrieks of delight from his audiences, died Friday in Mexico, where he was filming. The star of “Uncle Buck,”“Planes, Trains & Automobiles,”“Stripes...
This 1987 comedy Planes, Trains, and Automobiles follows Neil Page (Steve Martin), an ad executive trying to get home to his family for Thanksgiving. He forms an unlikely friendship with a shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith, brilliantly played by John Candy. The two men are exact op...
With a title that wages war on the Oxford comma,Planes, Trains and Automobilesis the peak of John Hughes’ comedic sensibilities. Waylaid on his way home for Thanksgiving, Neal (Steve Martin) encounters a jolly new friend (John Candy, commanding the audience to laugh or cry at will) that...
Finally, “Uncle Buck” (MPAA-rated PG) has a medium-level Hughes script, only about half as good as “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” about 50 times as good as “The Great Outdoors.” Before things go all awry in the final stretch, which has Buck patching things up with long-suffer...