Don Ferguson (actor)

{{Short description|Canadian actor, writer, and producer}} {{Infobox person | | name = Don Ferguson | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|5|30}} | birth_place = [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = actor, writer, and producer }}

'''Don Ferguson''' (born May 30, 1946) is a Canadian actor, writer, and producer and is one of the stars of the ''[[Royal Canadian Air Farce]]''. He and [[Dave Broadfoot]] were the only Canadian-born original cast members of ''Air Farce''. In 1998, Ferguson and the original Air Farce cast of [[Roger Abbott]], [[Luba Goy]], and [[John Morgan (comedian)|John Morgan]] received the [[Governor General's Performing Arts Award]] for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Air Farce biography|url=http://ggpaa.ca/award-recipients/1998/the-royal-canadian-air-farce-(roger-abbott-1946-20.aspx|publisher=Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation|accessdate=4 February 2015}}</ref>

His many ''Air Farce'' roles included parodies of [[Paul Martin]], [[Pierre Trudeau]], [[Ron MacLean]], [[Jack Layton]], [[Joe Clark]], [[Preston Manning]], [[Stockwell Day]], [[Rex Murphy]], [[Lucien Bouchard]], [[Bill Clinton]], [[Brian Mulroney]], [[Vladimir Putin]], [[Bob Dylan]], and [[Keith Richards]]. Many of these portrayals involve Ferguson as the 'straight man' to the more eccentric personalities played by [[Roger Abbott]].

Don Ferguson is a graduate from Loyola High School, [[Loyola College (Montreal)|Loyola College]], (now [[Concordia University (Montreal)|Concordia University]]), in [[Montreal]], with an Honours English degree, and afterward worked in radio and as an audio-visual producer and photographer until he discovered that he preferred comedy writing and performing. He has written and directed documentary programs for [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]], a science-fantasy series for radio (″Johnny Chase″), a political farce for the stage, ("Skin Deep"), and a stage drama about the [[World War II]] raid of [[Dieppe Raid|Dieppe]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/programguide/personality/don_ferguson |title=Don Ferguson |work=CBC Program Guide |accessdate=December 29, 2019}}</ref>

Ferguson starred in the 2004 situation comedy pilot ''[[XPM (TV series)|XPM]]''. Ferguson is the owner and executive producer of Don Ferguson Productions. In 2012 he produced ''[[Comedy Bar (Toronto)|Comedy Bar]]'', a sketch comedy series for [[Makeful|Bite TV]]. He previously produced a similar series, ''SketchCom'', in the late 1990s. Ferguson was also a producer on the various Air Farce television series since 2004 and has been the executive producer of the annual Air Farce New Year's Eve specials since 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0272416/ |title=Don Ferguson |website=IMDB.com |accessdate=December 29, 2019}}</ref>

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==External links== *http://www.comedy.ca *http://www.airfarce.com *{{IMDb name|0272416}}

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