Helms in the TV series Okavango: The Wild Frontier. From 1994 to 1995 he starred as Seabone Hunkle in the soap opera All My Children. Kanaly starred in the movies The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Dillinger, My Name is Nobody, The Sugarland Express, The Terminal Man, Act of Vengeance, The Wind and the Lion, Midway, Big Wednesday, Driving Me Crazy, and Double Trouble. He has also appeared in episodes of the TV series Starsky & Hutch, The Bionic Woman, Hawaii Five-O, Fantasy island, The Love Boat, The Twilight Zone, In the Heat of the Night, and Walker, Texas Ranger. Kanaly has won four Soap Opera Digest Awards and a TV Land Award for Dallas.