- Geboren am
- Verstorben17. Januar 2015 · Toronto, Ontario, Kanada (Krebs)
- GeburtsnameDonald Hugh Harron
- Donald Harron wurde am 19 September 1924 in Kanada geboren. Er war Schauspieler und Autor, bekannt für Solo für O.N.K.E.L. (1964), Time Tunnel (1966) und Spion mit meinem Gesicht (1965). Er war mit Claudette Gareau, Catherine McKinnon, Virginia Leith und Gloria Fisher verheiratet. Er starb am 17 Januar 2015 in Kanada.
- EhepartnerClaudette Gareau(2012 - 17. Januar 2015) (er verstorben)Catherine McKinnon(12. März 1969 - 2003) (geschieden, 1 Kind)Virginia Leith(6. November 1960 - 1968) (geschieden)Gloria Fisher(1949 - 15. Oktober 1960) (geschieden, 2 Kinder)
- Kinder
- He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943.
- He started out earning $10 a night doing 'chalk-talks' - drawing caricatures in chalk as he told stories to audiences during the Great Depression.
- In 2007, he was given the Gemini Award for Lifetime Achievement in Radio and Television.
- Don Harron has published several books, bestsellers in Canada, using his Charlie Farquharson persona. These books include "Charlie Farquharson's Histry of Canada" and "Charlie Farquharson's Jogfree of Canda, the Whirld and Other Places", modelled after 1066: And All That (1939) (by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman), as filtered through James Joyce, and written in Charlie's characteristic country bumpkin style. Charlie and his wife Valeda Drain Farquharson ("she was a Drain on her father's side") continue to reside in Parry Sound, Ontario.
- He was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on June 23, 1980 for his services to performing arts in Canada.
- I was born at home in bed with a naked woman, and hope to exit the same way.
- [on doing comedy] I'm addicted to the laughs. It's the strongest drug I've ever known. It makes heroin seem like aspirin. It wraps around you like love.
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