“I always loved watching how things worked both behind and in front of the camera,” she says, adding that getting to hang out with Joey Lawrence or riding the Ferris wheel all night long on the set of The Great Outdoors remain great memories. Rosemary Radcliffe during the Second City days. Candy, Eugene Levy, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and Visiting the set of Cool Runnings in Jamaica also stands out as a highlight for Jennifer.
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This made for an interesting discovery for Chris when, at five, he saw his father in the blue leather outfit and bald wig worn for a scene in Who’s Harry Crumb? and realized his dad was a movie star. His family meant everything to him and he would bring them to set whenever he could. There was a lot of laughter in the Candy house.Ĭhris Candy with his father on the set of Who's Harry Crumb?Īs is sometimes the case for actors, family was not going to get sidelined for work as far as John Candy was concerned. They were so good those who had known and worked with him for years wouldn’t clue in on the gag. “Big kid” dad would often create characters his audience would never see, performing for the captive duo of Chris and Jen when he’d pick up the phone to make prank calls to his friends. He was a big kid at heart and would do anything for his friends and family.” “A lot of actors do turn off their funny side when not performing but that was not really our dad,” she says. “Our father did his best to switch off his actor side but he was such a lovely, energetic, creative man and he always found a way to throw humour into the household,” recalls Chris Candy, his sister quick to agree. While his fans mourned the death of a comedic legend, one whose infectious smile on the screen instantly evoked joy, his children would struggle with the loss of a father who, in reality, was very much like the characters he portrayed in his films.
Jennifer Candy was only 14, her brother Chris 9, when their father passed away suddenly from a heart attack in 1994. The story would be missing its center, its humour and it's heart. Only this was not fiction for the Candy family. Try to picture what the rest of Uncle Buck would have been like if midway through the movie Buck Russell suddenly and unexpectedly vanished off the screen. Father and daughter share a moment on the set of SCTV. To the world upon which he left so much laughter and happiness, he was John Candy. He’d coach the first Jamaican Bobsled Team. He was Chet Ripley only looking for a little peace and quiet in The Great Outdoors and he was Del Griffith, lovable blabbermouth and seller of shower curtain rings. As Frank Dooley he was Armed and Dangerous! As Barf he was half man, half dog and his own best friend.
He was the womanizing Freddie Bauer that suddenly finds himself smuggling a mermaid out of a science lab. To most he was the unscrupulous Johnny LaRue walking the street beat or the jubilant Yosh Schmenge ready to bust out into a polka that perfectly paired with your cabbage rolls and coffee.