John Candy seemed to really be hitting his stride in the late 1980s. He secured a solid co-starring role with Dan Aykroyd in the 1988 hit comedy The Great Outdoors, made audiences laugh along with ...

During the 1980s, Candy was a frequent collaborator of writer-director John Hughes, starring in The Great Outdoors, written by Hughes, and Uncle Buck, written and directed by Hughes. Candy also ...