“30 years ago today… feels like a lifetime with and without you,” the actor and comedian’s daughter Jennifer wrote on social media on Monday.
Three decades after their father’s death, John Candy’s children pay tribute to their childhood.
On Monday, Jennifer Candy-Sullivan posted a sweet old family photo of herself with her late father and younger brother Chris Candy, posing outdoors with John.
“30 years ago today… feels like an eternity with and without you,” wrote Jennifer, 44. “I miss you and love you forever ❤️ #johncandy.”
Chris, 39, shared a snapshot of the Uncle Buck Actor in a colorful Hawaiian print shirt smiling at the camera under a ray of sunshine.
“All my love to my dad today. #johncandy,” Chris wrote in the caption.
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The Canadian-born actor, who died of cardiac arrest on March 4, 1994 at the age of 43, was remembered Monday by friends and colleagues who told PEOPLE, Space balls Star was “just as nice as you would hope” to his former SCTV And Home alone Co-star Catherine O’Hara.
“John’s comedy lives on, but the words ‘kindness’ and ‘sweetness’ are what I remember in my headlines,” Candys Planes, trains and cars Co-star Steve Martin told PEOPLE.
While the Syringes The actor liked to make people laugh, but he also liked to hear good humor.
“When you were around John, he did something that very few brilliantly funny and famous people do: He laughed at other people’s jokes,” said Jon Turteltaub, who directed the 1993 sports comedy Candy. Cool races.
Turteltaub, 60, added of the late star: “It’s really a big deal. He made people feel welcome. He made people feel wanted.”