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Don Harron (Donald Hugh Harron) was born on 19 September, 1924 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a Canadian actor and comedian. Discover Don Harron's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?

Popular As Donald Hugh Harron
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Age 91 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 19 September, 1924
Birthday 19 September
Birthplace Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date of death 2015
Died Place Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canada

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Who Is Don Harron's Wife?

His wife is Gloria Fisher (m. 1949-1960) Virginia Leith (m. 1960-1968) Catherine McKinnon (m. 1969-2003) Claudette Gareau (m. 2012)

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Wife Gloria Fisher (m. 1949-1960) Virginia Leith (m. 1960-1968) Catherine McKinnon (m. 1969-2003) Claudette Gareau (m. 2012)
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Children Martha, Mary, Kelley

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1924

Donald Hugh Harron, (September 19, 1924 – January 17, 2015) was a Canadian comedian, actor, director, journalist, author, playwright, and composer.

Harron is best remembered by American audiences as a member of the cast of the long-running country music series Hee Haw, on which he played his signature character of Charlie Farquharson.

Harron's parents, Lionel William Harron and Delsia Adah Maud Hunter Harron, owned and operated Harron's Cleaners and Dryers in Toronto.

Beginning at the age of ten, he earned extra money for the family during the Great Depression, doing "chalk talks" telling humorous stories while drawing caricatures in coloured chalk at company or club banquets, making $10 or $15 a talk.

1935

As a result of his performances, he was invited to audition for, and won, a part in the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission radio series Lonesome Trail in 1935.

As a teenager, Harron spent time working as a farm hand in rural Ontario; experience he later credited for the development of his Charlie Farquharson character.

1942

He graduated from Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute in 1942 and briefly attended the University of Toronto before enlisting in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943.

After the Second World War, he completed his studies of sociology and philosophy receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree.

While at school he performed in amateur and professional productions, won the Victoria College drama award, and composed the music and lyrics for a student musical.

He won the gold medal in philosophy and the regent's silver medal and was offered a position teaching literature at the university which he turned down in order to focus on performing.

1948

He spent two years in London, England, travelling there variously performing in a West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire and also working for the BBC as a comedy writer, acting in a radio series, playing the part of a clown in the film The Red Shoes (1948), and writing scripts for Gracie Fields.

1950

Returning to North America in the 1950s, Harron was featured in the inaugural season of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario as the male lead in All's Well That Ends Well and a minor part in and on Broadway and was one of the writers on the first English-language dramatic series broadcast in Canada, Sunshine Sketches, which aired from 1952 to 1953 on CBC Television.

1952

After university, Harron appeared in a number of plays and revues in Toronto, including the annual Spring Thaw revue, giving him national exposure when the 1952 edition was broadcast on the newly launched CBC Television network.

Harron is known for the character Charlie Farquharson, a personality he first portrayed in 1952 on the CBC series The Big Revue.

For the following half-century-plus, Harron performed the character regularly on stage and on Canadian radio and television.

1956

Harron also co-wrote the script for the 1956 television musical Anne of Green Gables.

1964

Harron played Art Harris in the two-part The Outer Limits episode titled "The Inheritors" (1964), in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ("Doomsday", 1965) as the naval missile officer aboard the SSRN Seaview who could not bring himself to perform his duties to launch nuclear missiles, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ("The Four-Steps Affair", also 1965) as an Australian U.N.C.L.E. agent named Kitt Kittridge, and in 12 O'Clock High ("The Ticket", 1965) as Lt. Crain.

1965

Harron later adapted the production for the stage in 1965 as Anne of Green Gables: The Musical, which continues to be performed annually during the Charlottetown Festival.

Herron starred in the original 1965 television pilot of The Man Who Never Was as Mark Wainwright but a change in sponsor led to the new sponsor requesting Robert Lansing in the role.

1966

He guest-starred in the premiere episode of the television series Blue Light (1966), which was later edited together with the three following episodes to create the theatrical film I Deal in Danger.

1969

He made one appearance on the CBC Television show Adventures in Rainbow Country in the episode "The Frank Williams File" (1969).

As well, the character received international attention as part of the cast of the U.S. country music television show, Hee Haw during its 23-year run; on that series, which ran from 1969 to 1992, Harron portrayed a rural anchorman for station KORN, and concluded the final story of each newscast with a cutthroat gesture.

1970

In addition to his television appearances as Charlie, through the 1970s and 80s Harron provided humorous syndicated commentaries to various Canadian radio stations in the Farquharson persona.

As well, he published several books in the persona of the character, reproducing the malapropisms in print and including strange photos and woodcuts as illustrations.

Examples of Farquharson's comments:

1971

He had a featured role in Arthur Hiller's film The Hospital (1971), written by Paddy Chayefsky.

1972

He replaced Gene Wood as host of the game show Anything You Can Do from 1972 to 1974.

1977

He has also been a host and interviewer on Canadian television and radio, hosting CBC Radio's Morningside from 1977 to 1982, for which he received an ACTRA Award for best radio host, and subsequently hosting an afternoon talk show, The Don Harron Show on CTV from 1983 to 1985.

1980

He was invested as member of the Order of Canada in 1980 and in 2007, he was given the Gemini Award for Lifetime Achievement in Radio and Television.

2000

In 2000, Harron's contribution to the Canadian entertainment industry was recognized with his being named a member of the Order of Ontario.

2001

In May 2001, Don performed the Charlie Farquharson character during the 75th anniversary of his Toronto high school, Vaughan Road Collegiate Institute.

His commentary included a reference to former US president Bill Clinton's sexual dalliance with Monica Lewinsky.

2003

Harron reprised the character on The Red Green Show in 2003 and 2004.

Dressed in an overly well-worn sweater along with a frayed cap, and sporting a grizzled "two-day beard", Farquharson is a decidedly rural Ontario farmer from the real-life town of Parry Sound.

He and his wife, Valeda, have a son, Orville.

Both were usually unseen and unheard, but on occasion (mostly on stage) Harron's wife Catherine McKinnon would play the role of Valeda.

Uneducated, but not without a boisterous "school of hard knocks" sensibility, Charlie would loudly deliver his opinion about matters local and worldwide, using many malapropisms in the process which often resulted in both double meanings and increased satire about the events.

He was also known for his loud hearty laugh, "Hee! Hee! Hee!".

2008

According to Harron in a 2008 interview with the Calgary Herald, the stage show has provided work for more than 10,000 actors since its inception.

2011

"He deified yer 11th Commandment - Thou shalt not put thy rod before thy staff."