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.

"Everybody is laughing," Hanks recalls of filming the racquetball sequence with a hungover Candy. Hanks adds, "John is utilizing his exhaustion to a degree that works" for the character. "He was out ...

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 ...

“That’s the problem when you talk about John,” says Bill Murray in the opening of John Candy: I Like Me, “people don’t really have a lot of negative things to say about him.” One of the worst pop ...

Fans are excited as Orange Whip takes shape, promising a heartfelt exploration of John Candy's incredible life and enduring legacy.

Early in the new documentary John Candy: I Like Me, there's an excerpt from Candy's 1994 funeral. Saturday Night Live alum Dan Aykroyd eulogized his friend and collaborator. "This is no meager life we ...

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, ...