If there’s a scene that best encapsulates the tragically abbreviated career of John Candy, it’s not necessarily from his time on the sketch-comedy series “SCTV” or from movies like “Stripes” or “Uncle ...

TORONTO – Most kids don’t get to go to work with their dad and hang out with John Candy. Colin Hanks was lucky in that regard. As a 5-year-old visiting his father, Tom Hanks, on the set of the 1984 ...

Fans remember him as Del Griffith or Uncle Buck, but John Candy’s children remember him simply as dad. Decades after his death, Chris Candy and Jennifer Candy-Sullivan say they see their father’s ...

More or less a standard-issue celebrity documentary, the movie lets us enjoy archival footage that might otherwise not be seen. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

March 4th marked thirty years since John Candy left this world at just the age of 43. His death, which came after a heart attack while filming Wagon's East, was a shock to fans worldwide, but in his ...

On the surface, yes, the idea of making a documentary on the life of John Candy seems like a pretty great idea - I mean, who doesn't love John Candy? - but as director Colin Hanks points out, well, ...

Candy died in 1994 at age 43. Now, a new Amazon Prime documentary does a fine job of profiling a gifted entertainer who was also, by all accounts, a very sweet human being. This is FRESH AIR. John ...

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