It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

He returned after Dan Blocker's death in May 1972. W. Dortort saw Canary in Hombre and cast him in the role because Canary was "the kind of kid who comes on and suddenly there's nobody else on the screen".

David Hoyt Canary (born August 25 1938) is an American actor who starred in both soap operas and prime time television. He is best known for his roles as the ranch foreman Candy Canaday on Bonanza (a role he played from 1967–1970; 1972–1973) and identical twins Adam Chandler from 1983 to 2010 and Stuart Chandler from 1984 to 2009 on the daytime serial All My Children.