COMEDIAN BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1950

John Candy 1969 Neil McNeil Yearbook

John Candy as McNeil High School Student Council Treasurer
from 1968-69.

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    John Franklin Candy
(October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994)

Candy rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of The Second
City
and its related Second City Television series. He also appeared in
comedy films such as Stripes (1981), Splash (1984), Spaceballs (1987),
and Uncle Buck (1989). One of his most remembered performances was
as Del Griffith, the on-the-move shower-curtain ring salesman in the John
Hughes
1987 comedy film Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

While filming the Western parody Wagons East!, Candy died of a heart
attack in his sleep in Durango, Mexico, at the age of 43.

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LINDSAY WAGNER TURNED 62 TODAY

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Actress Lindsay Jean Wagner was born near Pasadena, California. She later
moved with her parents to Portland, Oregon, where she attended David Douglas
High School and appeared in a number of school plays. She also studied at the
University of Oregon.  She is probably most widely known for her portrayal of
Jaime Sommers in the ABC/NBC television series The Bionic Woman, 1976-
1978.Wagner won an Emmy award for her work in the series. She has since 
maintained a lengthy career in a variety of other film and TV productions.

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