2. He was kind, courteous and sweet to everyone he met. Many times John would go to a restaurant and end up in the kitchen helping the staff and serving customers.
3. John was originally going to play the part of Louis Tully in Ghostbusters, he pulled out due to character portrayal differences and the part was rewritten for Rick Moranis. 4. He wanted to be a footballer not an actor, but due to a knee injury he could never be a professional. Later on in 1991 he did however become a co-owner of the Toronto Argonauts, something he always dreamed of.
5..During the horse riding scenes in Delirious John's parts were filmed using a mechanical horse.
7. John had a Golden Retriever called Keema, whom he studied for his part of Barf in Spaceballs.
8. John Candy and Conrad Dunn taught their co-stars in
Stripes the words to Do Wah Diddy Diddy as nobody else knew them.
9. John filmed his scenes for Home Alone as a favour to John Hughes. He worked solidly for 24 hours to film them all and got into trouble several times with Chris Columbus for encouraging The Polka Band to play when they should have been filming.
Oh and not a John Candy fact as such but one related - Sanka's egg was made of rubber!
I will write a much bigger blog post soon.
Thanks for all your support,
Tracey x
