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Date of Birth
19 September 1924, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Birth Name
Donald Hugh Harron

Spouse
Catherine McKinnon (1969 - present)
Virginia Leith (1960 - 1968) (divorced)
Gloria Fisher (1949 - 1960) (divorced)

Trivia

Father of Mary Harron and Kelley Harron.

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) (TV) (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.

Did a 5 minute segment on CFRB1010 AM Toronto on weekends.

Father-in-law of John Walsh.

He was awarded the O.C. (Officer of the Order of Canada) on June 23, 1980 for his services to performing arts in Canada.


Personal Quotes

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.


Where Are They Now

(June 2007) Toronto, Ontario, Canada


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