Donald Harron

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1. First role

   Harron first played Charlie Farquharson in 1952 on the CBC series The Big Revue, and he kept performing the character on stage, radio and television for more than half a century.

2. A role that slipped away

   Harron played Mark Wainwright in the 1965 pilot of The Man Who Never Was. When the sponsor changed, the new sponsor asked for Robert Lansing instead.

3. Behind the camera

   Harron helped write Sunshine Sketches, which aired on CBC Television from 1952 to 1953. It was the first dramatic series broadcast in English in Canada.

4. A change of course

   Harron spent two years in London, England. There he acted in a West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire, wrote comedy for the BBC, and played a clown in the 1948 film The Red Shoes.

5. First role

   After giving performances, Harron was asked to try out for a role in the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission radio series Lonesome Trail, which he got in 1935.