John Candy is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Executive producer and Thanks Canadien born on 30 october 1950 at Newmarket (Canada)
John Candy
John Candy participated to
52 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
6 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Actor
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Directed by Jon TurteltaubOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Documentary,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Athletics films,
Films about the Olympic Games,
Children's films,
Sports d'hiverActors Leon Robinson,
Doug E. Doug,
Malik Yoba,
John Candy,
Rawle D. Lewis,
Raymond J. BarryRoles Irv
Rating69%
Derice Bannock, a top 100m runner, fails to qualify at the Olympic Trial for the 1988 Summer Olympics when fellow runner Junior Bevil trips and falls, taking Derice and another runner, Yul Brenner, with him., 1h46
Directed by Ivan ReitmanOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
ActionThemes Military humor in film,
Political films,
Buddy filmsActors Bill Murray,
Warren Oates,
P. J. Soles,
Sean Young,
John Candy,
Harold RamisRoles Dewey 'Ox' Oxberger
Rating67%
John Winger is a cab driver, who, in the span of a few hours, loses his job, his apartment, his car, and his girlfriend. Realizing that his life is a failure, he decides to join the United States Army. Talking his best friend Russell Ziskey (a teacher of English to foreign students) into joining with him, they go to a recruiting office and are soon off to basic training., 1h51
Directed by Ron HowardOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
Fantasy,
RomanceThemes Films about magic and magicians,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Mermaids in filmActors Tom Hanks,
Daryl Hannah,
John Candy,
Eugene Levy,
Dody Goodman,
Richard B. ShullRoles Freddie Bauer
Rating62%
As an eight-year-old boy, Allen Bauer (David Kreps) is vacationing with his family near Cape Cod. While taking a sight-seeing tour on a small boat, he gazes into the ocean and sees something below the surface that fascinates him, while his older brother Freddie Bauer is walking around the boat fascinated by the women. Allen jumps into the water, even though he cannot swim. He grasps the hands of a girl who is inexplicably under the water with him and an instant connection forms between the two. Allen can now breathe under water as he is in the hands of a mermaid. However, Allen is pulled to the surface by the deck hands and the two are separated, though apparently no one else sees the girl. After the ferry moves off, Allen looks back at the girl, who dives underwater showing her mermaid's tail. Allen comes to believe the encounter was a near-death hallucination, but his bond with the mermaid proves so strong that his subsequent relationships with women fail as he seeks the connection he felt with the mermaid., 1h53
Directed by Hendel Butoy,
Mike GabrielOrigin USAGenres Fantasy,
Adventure,
Musical,
Crime,
AnimationThemes Films about animals,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal,
Films about birds,
Mise en scène d'un rongeur,
Musical films,
Buddy films,
Children's films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Eva Gabor,
Bob Newhart,
John Candy,
Tristan Rogers,
Adam Ryen,
George C. ScottRoles Wilbur (voice)
Rating67%
In the Australian Outback, a young boy named Cody rescues and befriends a rare golden eagle named Marahute, who shows him her nest and eggs. Later on, the boy unknowingly falls into an animal trap set by Percival C. McLeach, a local poacher wanted by the Australian Rangers. When McLeach finds one of the eagle's feathers on the boy's backpack, he is instantly overcome with excitement, for he knows that catching an eagle that size would make him rich because he had caught one before, which was Marahute's mate. McLeach throws Cody's backpack to a pack of crocodiles in order to trick the Rangers into thinking that Cody was dead, and kidnaps him in his attempt to force him to reveal the whereabouts of Marahute., 1h37
Directed by Walter HillOrigin USAGenres ComedyThemes Sports films,
Baseball filmsActors John Candy,
Richard Pryor,
Lonette McKee,
Stephen Collins,
Rick Moranis,
David WhiteRoles Spike Nolan
Rating65%
Monty Brewster is a Minor League Baseball pitcher with the Hackensack Bulls. He and his best friend Spike Nolan, the catcher for the Bulls, are arrested after a post-game bar fight and cannot afford bail. A stranger offers bail, if they will come to New York City with him. At the Manhattan law office of Granville & Baxter, Brewster is told that his recently deceased great-uncle Rupert Horn, whom he has never met, has left him his entire fortune but with several conditions. , 1h30
Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami,
Gerald Potterton,
John Bruno,
Pino Van LamsweerdeOrigin CanadaGenres Science fiction,
Musical theatre,
Fantasy,
Action,
Adventure,
Musical,
AnimationThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Films about extraterrestrial lifeActors Harvey Atkin,
Rodger Bumpass,
Jackie Burroughs,
John Candy,
Joe Flaherty,
Eugene LevyRoles Desk Sergeant / Dan / Den / Robot (voice)
Rating65%
The movie's title sequence story (based on the original story by Dan O'Bannon and art by Thomas Warkentin) opens with a space shuttle flying in orbit over Earth. The bay doors (on the belly of the shuttle) open, releasing a 1960 Corvette. An astronaut seated in the Corvette then begins descending through Earth's atmosphere, landing in a desert canyon.