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John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian entertainer and comic known for the most part for his work in Hollywood movies. Candy rose to distinction as an individual from the Toronto part of the Second City and its related Second City Television arrangement, and through his appearances in such satire films as Stripes, Splash, Cool Runnings, Summer Rental, Home Alone, The Great Outdoors, Spaceballs, and Uncle Buck, just as increasingly sensational jobs in Only the Lonely and JFK. One of his most prestigious onscreen exhibitions was as Del Griffith, the chatty shower-shade ring sales rep in the John Hughes satire Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Notwithstanding his work as an entertainer, Candy was a co-proprietor of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League from 1991 until his demise, and the group won the 1991 Gray Cup under his possession. While recording the Western spoof Wagons East, Candy passed on of a coronary failure in Durango, Mexico on March 4, 1994, matured 43. His last two movies, Wagons East and Canadian Bacon, are devoted to his memory.
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