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John Candy

John Candy

Canadian actor (1950-1994)
October 31, 1950 (March 4, 1994)
U.S. 1995. Satire by Michael Moore with Alan Alda, John Candy, Rhea Perlman.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1994. Satire by Peter Markle with John Candy, Richard Lewis, John McGinley.
Runtime: 110 min.
Can. 1993. Satire by John Candy with George Wendt, Robin Duke. Disillusioned with his marriage and his job, a suburbanite organizes his own kidnapping.
U.S. 1992. Police comedy by Eugene Levy with Sean Young, Richard Lewis, John Candy. While traveling in Europe, an American couple becomes involved in a murder case after the discovery of a wealthy woman's body..
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1991. Comedy by Dan Aykroyd with Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, John Candy. After committing a minor offence in a strange village, a group of travellers have to deal with a particularly severe hundred-year-old judge.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1991. Sentimental comedy by Chris Columbus with John Candy, Maureen O'Hara, Ally Sheedy. A newly engaged thirty-eight-year-old bachelor struggles to break free from the grip of his mother, a possessive woman with whom he lives.
Runtime: 120 min.
U.S. 1991. Fantasy comedy by Tom Mankiewicz with John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms. Following a car accident, a writer with an unhappy love life is thrown into the universe of one of his soap operas.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1989. Police comedy by Paul Flaherty with John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Shawnee Smith. A clumsy detective investigates the kidnapping of a millionaire's daughter.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1989. Comedy by John Hughes with John Candy, Jean Louisa Kelly, Amy Madigan. A jovial but rather crude individual agrees to take care of his brother's house and children when his sister-in-law has to go to her sick father's bedside.
Runtime: 99 min.
Can. 1989. Comedy by Jim Drake with John Candy, Donna Dixon, Peter Boyle. The trials and tribulations of various ace drivers engaged in an illegal race across the United States.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1988. Comedy by Howard Deutch with John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Stephanie Faracy. A family's vacation at a cabin in the woods is severely disrupted when a troublesome brother-in-law and his entire clan unexpectedly show up.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1987. Satire by Mel Brooks with Mel Brooks, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga. Coveting the atmosphere of a planet, a cruel mercenary fights against an adventurer who tries to prevent him from kidnapping the daughter of the king ruling this planet.
Runtime: 96 min.
Parental Guidance
U.S. 1987. Comedy by John Hughes with Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins. Although he has inherited a rather cumbersome traveling companion, an executive tries every means possible to join his family in Chicago.
Runtime: 93 min.

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V.O.: Really Weird Tales
Can. 1986. Sketches by Don McBrearty, Paul Lynch, John Blanchard with Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, John Candy. Three bizarre stories featuring a convent girl with supernatural powers, an albino alien, and a clueless singer.
Can. 1986. Comedy by Robert Boyd with Lorne Greene, John Candy, Eugene Levy. A conspiracy is being hatched by the Canadian government to take over the American show business industry.
U.S. 1986. Police comedy by Mark L. Lester with John Candy, Eugene Levy, Meg Ryan. An ex-police officer ,turned surveillance officer, discovers that his employer is a front for a gangster.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 1985. Comedy by Nicolas Meyer with Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson. To escape gangsters, a young man from a wealthy family slips into a contingent of volunteers heading to Thailand.
Runtime: 106 min.
U.S. 1985. Comedy by Carl Reiner with John Candy, Karen Austin, Rip Torn. The misadventures of an air traffic controller on vacation with his family in a cottage near the coast in Florida.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 1985. Comedy by Walter Hill with Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee. To inherit a huge fortune, a baseball player has to spend thirty million dollars in one month.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1984. Fantasy comedy by Ron Howard with Daryl Hannah, Tom Hanks, John Candy. A young single shopkeeper is sorry that he has never known true love, until the day a mermaid saves him from drowning.
Runtime: 111 min.
U.S. 1983. Comedy by David Steinberg with John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy. A cult subjects a young limousine driver to psychological conditioning designed to make him into a murderer.
Runtime: 85 min.
U.S. 1982. Montage by Andrew Solt, Malcolm Leo with Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Tommy Chong. Montage of scenes from low-budget films where the ridiculous is front and centre.
Runtime: 80 min.
U.S. 1981. Comedy by Ivan Reitman with Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1980. Comedy by John Landis with John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Carrie Fisher.
Runtime: 133 min.
Can. 1978. Crime drama by Daryl Duke with Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Céline Lomez. A Toronto bank teller takes advantage of a robbery to embezzle a large sum of money for himself.
Runtime: 105 min.
Can. 1973. Police comedy by John Trent with Lawrence Dane, John Candy, Mickey Rooney. Two clumsy detectives search for a missing woman.
Runtime: 94 min.

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