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- Birth nameDonald Hugh Harron
- Donald Harron was born on September 19, 1924 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for Des agents très spéciaux (1964), Au coeur du temps (1966) and Le mystère de la chambre forte (1965). He was married to Claudette Gareau, Catherine McKinnon, Virginia Leith and Gloria Fisher. He died on January 17, 2015 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- SpousesClaudette Gareau(2012 - January 17, 2015) (his death)Catherine McKinnon(March 12, 1969 - 2003) (divorced, 1 child)Virginia Leith(November 6, 1960 - 1968) (divorced)Gloria Fisher(1949 - October 15, 1960) (divorced, 2 children)
- Children
- 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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