Stuart Chandler
Actor History
David Canary (Fall 1984 to present)
Occupation
Artist of locale repute
Owns The Chandler Gallery, an art gallery
Used to own WRCW; Adam bought the station and put it in Stuart's name to cut his taxes
Local volunteer at The Brooke English House
Resides At
The Gate House at the Chandler Mansion (300 River Road)
Marital Status
Married (Marian Colby)
Past Marriages
Joanna Yeager (divorced)
Cindy Parker (deceased)
Relatives
Adam Chandler (twin brother)
Charlotte Chandler (sister; deceased)
Hayley Vaughan (niece)
Anna Claire Chandler (niece; deceased)
Adam Chandler Jr. (nephew)
Colby Marian Chandler (niece)
Ross Chandler (nephew)
Lorenzo Hector Santos (great-nephew)
Adam Chandler III (great-nephew)
Julie Rand Chandler (great-niece; via adoption)
Children
Scott Chandler (son; via adoption)
Flings & Affairs
Gloria Marsh
Esther Glynn
Marian Colby
Crimes Committed
Encouraged Adam not to reveal that Skye was not his biological daughter.
Accomplice to kidnapping
Impersonated/Signed Adam's divorce papers from Erica
Tried to kill Palmer when he was still in the West Wing
Allowed Marian and Liza to keep Adam locked in his "safe room."
Forgery; Signed Adam's name to multi-million dollar checks
Brief Character History
For years, Adam kept Stuart locked up in The West Wing of The Chandler Mansion. When Erica discovered him, Adam's secret was out. Stuart began as an evil entity. Erica was living with Adam, and occasionally a "bad" Adam would appear and try to hurt her. As we found out later, it was really Stuart, who was being kept hidden. Joanna, the housekeeper, had convinced Stuart that Erica was evil and had to be stopped. Of course, he was never really mean, just misled. Eventually the kindhearted Stuart fell in love with Cindy Parker, an AIDS victim, and married her despite her sickness. He adopted her son Scott, raising him as his own.
Years after Cindy's death, Stuart fell in love with Gloria Marsh, but her heart belonged to Adam. Being the gentleman that he was, Stuart let Gloria go to be with the man she loved.
Stuart had to deal with the most common problem of parenthood: The fear of letting his son grow up. Even though it hurt him dearly, he managed to slowly let go of the reigns of parenthood. Dimitri Marick managed to turn a loan to Stuart into a way to steal ownership of WRCW. He allowed Stuart to use WRCW as collateral for the loan then turned around and demanded to have Stuart repay the loan on the spot. Because Stuart didn't have the cash to pay back Dimitri, Dimitri and his bigwig lawyer coaxed Stuart into signing over ownership of WRCW to Dimitri.
Esther Glynn became the number one priority in Stuart's life. Stuart offered to let her stay at the art gallery with him and Esther agreed. Shortly after that, Erica needed her help with Bianca and asked Esther to move in with her. Stuart made it known to Esther that she was the apple of his eye. Esther thought the same way about Stuart.
His relationship with Esther, however, never evolved. Stuart became firmly attached to Liza's mother, Marian Colby. Marian slipped into bed with Stuart, unwittingly mistaking him for a sleeping Adam, and they made love. Marian was hoping to use this ploy as leverage for her daughter in Liza's divorce suit against Adam. In court, however, Stuart revealed that he was the one who'd made "angel wings" with Marian that night. A touching and very endearing relationship was born between them that day. Although Adam tried to tear them apart [he once invited several of Marian's old flames to dinner with Stuart and Marian to humiliate her] this pair have managed to remain devoted to each other.
Camille, the daughter of Joy Hawkins, an old friend from Pigeon Hollow, arrived in town hoping to avenge her mother's death. Camille mistakenly believed that Adam was responsible for her mother's death. In actuality, Lee Hawkins, Camille's father, was the culprit. Lee arrived on the scene and during an episode of insanity, kidnapped Marian and held her hostage at the Marick mausoleum. Stuart tracked down the woman he loved and eventually saved her. They vowed never to part and Stuart asked Liza for Marian's hand in marriage.
In order to get on the good side of Liza, Adam promised to give his best wishes to Stuart and Marian and offered to hold a big wedding for them. Amidst Pine Valley's biggest snowstorm, Marian and Stuart were married in truly "royal" style--- they dressed up as the King and Queen of Hearts!
The marriage between the two took an upsetting turn when Stuart was believed to have been killed in a cabin fire. In actuality, after learning from Adam that he had set Marian up to look as if she'd had an affair, Stuart wandered around aimlessly in the dark of night. He was struck by Arlene Vaughan's car. Arlene was intoxicated and fled the scene. Stuart, meanwhile, was thrown onto a sandy beach where he was pretty much left for dead. Later, Stuart's cabin burned down and the body of a man was found with some of Stuart's belongings. No one knew that this was someone else who had found Stuart's lifeless body and mugged him. Marian was crushed by her husband's death. Esther Glynn, the woman with whom Stuart had had an earlier relationship, found Stuart on the beach and took him back to her trailer to nurse him back to health. Esther still had fantasies of a relationship with Stuart and was crushed when she learned that Stuart had moved on and married Marian. Luckily for Esther, the accident had left Stuart with amnesia. Esther convinced Stuart that she was his wife and pleaded with him to travel with her to Las Vegas to renew their wedding vows. Stuart remained suspicious about his relationship with Esther because he didn't "feel" anything for the woman who was supposedly his wife. Stuart pieced together parts of his missing memory and eventually hitchhiked his way back to Pine Valley, a town whose name he found on the back of one of his paintings in Esther's trailer and later on a jacket that Adam had left behind at their annual fishing spot. Upon arriving at the Chandler Mansion, Arlene duped Stuart into going to the attic where she said that he would find all the answers to his lost memories. Arlene promptly locked Stuart in the attic. After an accident at a construction site left Adam on the brink of death, Arlene decided to free Stuart and come clean about her transgressions. Stuart helped will Adam back to life and all of his memories returned.
Stuart and Marian returned to wedded bliss and resumed their life together. They are still as happy with each other today as the first day they fell in love.
