His fans particularly liked the ragtime songs " Salty Dog " and " Candy Man ", and the blues ballads " Spike Driver Blues " ( a variant of " John Henry ") and " Frankie ".

* 1994 – John Candy, Canadian comedian ( b. 1950 )

* 1950 – John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor ( d. 1994 )

In 1991, Gretzky purchased the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League with Bruce McNall and John Candy.

* John Candy

At first, Howard considered Hanks for the role of the main character's wisecracking brother, a role that eventually went to John Candy.

It starred Demi Moore, Chevy Chase, John Candy and Aykroyd sporting an oddly phallic prosthetic nose.

* The actor John Candy used this piece almost as a signature theme tune throughout his television and film career.

Spaceballs is a 1987 American science fiction comedy parody film co-written and directed by Mel Brooks and starring Bill Pullman, John Candy, Mel Brooks and Rick Moranis.

* John Candy as Barfolomew ( Barf )

Actor John Candy was entombed in the same mausoleum, two crypts above Fred MacMurray.

She performed as a young teen in several movies including Summer Rental ( 1985 ), which starred John Candy.

John Franklin Candy ( October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994 ) was a Canadian actor and comedian.

Ween's Chocolate and Cheese album released in 1994 is " dedicated in loving memory to John Candy ( 1950-1994 )".

The John Candy Visual Arts Studio at Neil McNeil Catholic High School, in Toronto, Ontario was dedicated in his honour after his death.

The Sammy Maudlin Show on SCTV famously lampooned the late night talk show format, with John Candy in the role of William B. Williams, the sidekick or " second banana " to host Sammy Maudlin ( Joe Flaherty ).

The musical film starred Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene, as well as Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, John Candy, Christopher Guest, and a 15-foot-tall talking plant ( voiced by Levi Stubbs ) which at times required up to 40 puppeteers to operate.

He is known as the king of teen movies as well as helping launch the careers of actors including Michael Keaton, Bill Paxton, Matthew Broderick, John Candy and the up-and-coming actors collectively nicknamed the Brat Pack.

In the early 1980s, Novello produced SCTV, a Toronto-based comedy show, which starred Martin Short, Joe Flaherty, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, Andrea Martin, and Catherine O ' Hara.

* William B. Williams, played by John Candy, the babbling, chuckling sycophant sidekick to Sammy Maudlin on SCTV

* Camp Candy ( TV series, animated, 1989 – 1991 ) theme song written, and performed with John Candy

These plots often featured Guy Caballero ( Joe Flaherty ), the cheap, tyrannical owner and president of SCTV, who was in a wheelchair only so that people would " respect " him ; weaselly, sweating station manager Maurice " Moe " Green ( Harold Ramis ), who was succeeded by flamboyant, leopard-skin clad station manager Mrs. Edith Prickley ( Andrea Martin ); vain variety star Johnny La Rue ( John Candy ); washed-up entertainers like singer Lola Heatherton ( Catherine O ' Hara ) and " funnyman " Bobby Bittman ( Eugene Levy ); news anchors Floyd Robertson ( Flaherty ) and Earl Camembert ( Levy ), talk-show host Sammy Maudlin ( Flaherty ), beer-addled brothers Bob and Doug McKenzie ( Moranis and Thomas ), plus many other characters, all played by the SCTV cast.

The original SCTV cast consisted of John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O ' Hara, Harold Ramis, and Dave Thomas.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

He defied the Boston hierarchy, and after they sent a small army to get him he befuddled the court, including John Cotton, with one of the most complicated religious discourses ever heard.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

Let every policeman and park guard keep his eye on John and Jane Doe, lest one piece of bread be placed undetected and one bird survive.

Its editors only knew of one example to point to, a public housing development of 278 homes in New Haven described by John Schulz in the March, 1950 issue.

The Providence Daily Journal answered the Daily Post by stating that the raid of John Brown was characteristic of Democratic acts of violence and that `` He was acting in direct opposition to the Republican Party, who proclaim as one of their cardinal principles that they do not interfere with slavery in the states ''.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

It ticked over smoothly, idling while Fogg exchanged mails with the armed messenger from Burlington at Fort Ethan Allen, and one from Montpelier and Barre at the St. John field.

Of only one could he be sure -- young John Hudson, his second son.

On one of his 1921 ventures he was actually come upon by a Detective Sergeant John J. Ryan down on his knees with a tool embedded in a labour office safe in the Postal Telegraph Building ; ;

But John nipped her rear end -- one lion's rear end was as good as another to John, Africa, Arizona no matter -- and she changed ends and took a swipe at John, but he ducked back.

Because of the recent death of the bride's father, Frederick B. Hamm, the marriage of Miss Terry Hamm to John Bruce Parichy will be a small one at noon tomorrow in St. Bernadine's church, Forest Park.

Gallery Director John Walker greeted the group, standing on one of the benches in the downstairs lobby to speak to them.

In Inside Africa, John Gunther describes one of these, the Societe Generale, as `` the kind of colossus that might be envisaged if, let us say, the House of Morgan, Anaconda Copper, the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and various companies producing agricultural products were lumped together, with the United States government as a heavy partner ''.

In one thing the higher critics, like the modernists, however, overreached themselves, in claiming that the Gospel of John was not written in John's time but well after the first century, perhaps as late as 150 A.D..

The next traditional step then was to accept it as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would accept a treatise on any earthly `` science '', and I submitted to its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, `` If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself '' ( John 7: 17 ).

Recently, John Sherrill was stricken with one of the deadliest forms of cancer.

About that same time John Crosby's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do.

This is the tale of one John Enright, an American who has accidentally killed a man in the prize ring and is now trying to forget about it in a quiet place where he may become a quiet man.

Linda accepted the reproach, which was something she did rarely in all her life and most rarely in that summer of 1936 when she was by all odds the prettiest and brightest young woman west of the Allegheny Mountains, and John was surely one of the handsomer and brighter young men around Pittsburgh.

She giggled during the ceremony, and Mousie Chandler, who was one of Linda's bridesmaids, said John glared black as death at her.

Poor John was the kind of stock that keeps a bargain without whimpering and maybe bends over backward to keep a bad one.