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.

When I first saw the John Candy: I Like Me trailer, I knew this documentary about one of the funniest and warmest actors of all time would hit me in the feels. I wasn’t wrong, as the 2025 movie ...

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, ...

John Candy’s son, Chris Candy, has reflected on how interviewers treated his late father, specifically regarding his weight. The actor and comedian died in 1994, aged 43, from a heart attack while ...

Watching films on Amazon has always been a case of hunting for freebies, while mostly resigning oneself to coughing up the ...

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

Many of Candy’s most popular and famous characters have a charm that makes the viewer feel like he’s your own father. “I think he kind of was recreating the relationship that he might not have had ...

The late John Candy passed away three years before I arrived on this earth at Atlanta, Georgia’s Northside Hospital. So, for someone coming in on the first wave of Gen Z, it would make sense that the ...

John Candy’s son, Chris, said during a recent event promoting the new documentary “John Candy: I Like Me” (via People) that it was “heart-wrenching” to see resurfaced press interviews in the film ...