John Candy Was &x27;The Coolest Dude&x27; on Set of "The Rescuers Down Under", Disney Animator Recalls Virginia ChamleeThu, March 19, 2026 at 3:53 PM UTC 0 John Candy, Rescuers Down UnderCredit: Harry Langdon/Getty; Buena Vista Pictures/courtesy Everett A Disney animator is remembering John Candy, 32 years after the actor's death Longtime animator Terry Naughton worked with Candy on the 1990 animated film Rescuers Down Under In a new podcast interview, Naughton said Candy was "just the coolest dude" One Disney animator is recalling how kind and "cool" late actor John Candy was while filming th...
John Candy Was 'The Coolest Dude' on Set of "The Rescuers Down Under", Disney Animator Recalls
Virginia ChamleeThu, March 19, 2026 at 3:53 PM UTC
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John Candy, Rescuers Down UnderCredit: Harry Langdon/Getty; Buena Vista Pictures/courtesy Everett -
A Disney animator is remembering John Candy, 32 years after the actor's death
Longtime animator Terry Naughton worked with Candy on the 1990 animated film Rescuers Down Under
In a new podcast interview, Naughton said Candy was "just the coolest dude"
One Disney animator is recalling how kind and "cool" late actor John Candy was while filming the 1990 animated film Rescuers Down Under.
Speaking on the Sunday, March 15 episode of the Nostalgia Tonight with Joe Sibilia podcast, longtime animator Terry Naughton discussed what it was like meeting Candy, who died at age 43 in 1994.
"He was just the coolest dude," Naughton said. "The guy you see on screen, you know, Uncle Buck or any of those — that's him. That was who he was."
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Naughton explained how, while working on the film, he and some other members of the crew were invited by Candy to visit his production company, Frostback Productions.
Naughton added that when he told Candy to come to the Rescuers premier, the actor responded, "I'll bring the beer."
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When the group wanted to take a photo with Candy, he said "that'd be great," before the group began to pose.
"There was only about six of us there, something like that, six or seven of us. And so we're we're sitting around, and we're looking for John. We're going, 'Well, where's John?' And then we look, and he's standing behind us. We're like, 'What are you doing there?' I said, 'You're up in front.' He goes, I''m big. I'll block the whole picture.' We go, 'Sit down in front of us, for god's sake.' So he comes around, and he sits down in front.... But again, it's just who he was."
Candy rose to fame on Canada's SCTV before making films like Stripes, The Great Outdoors, Summer Rental, Uncle Buck, and Home Alone.
The animated Rescuers centered on a boy living in the Australian outback who frees a rare golden eagle from a trap before being kidnapped by a poacher trying to catch the eagle. After two top mice are assigned to save the boy and the eagle, they fly to Australia on a clumsy albatross, voiced by Candy.
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