John Candy’s last-minute entry in Home Alone became one of the film’s most memorable surprises. Candy joined the cast only ...

Steve Martin and John Candy made perfect foils in 1987’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Martin played uptight executive Neal ...

Candy died in 1994 at age 43. Now, a new Amazon Prime documentary does a fine job of profiling a gifted entertainer who was also, by all accounts, a very sweet human being.

If there’s a scene that best encapsulates the tragically abbreviated career of John Candy, it’s not necessarily from his time on the sketch-comedy series “SCTV” or from movies like “Stripes” or “Uncle ...

I Like Me" (available with a Prime Video subscription) is clearly a labor of love for director Colin Hanks and producer Ryan ...

A member of that endangered species known as “The Everyman,” Candy's life sometimes read like unsubtle literature.

An interview with Bill Murray opens “John Candy: I Like Me,” director Colin Hanks’ formulaic but richly enjoyable documentary about the late, great Canadian comedic actor. Murray apologizes for having ...

Jim Lieberman's brother captured film of legendary comedian while traveling with The Second City theatre troupe.

The comedian often spoke of being doomed to the same fate of his father, who died at 35. What he and my father felt wasn't ...

This is FRESH AIR. John Candy, the comic actor who rose to fame in the sketch comedy series "SCTV" and such films as "Stripes," "Splash" and "Spaceballs," died at age 43 in 1994. Now, 31 years later, ...