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 received the Governor
General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement,
Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.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, (now 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 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.Ferguson
starred in the 2004 situation comedy pilot XPM. Ferguson is the owner
and executive producer of Don Ferguson Productions. In 2012 he
produced Comedy Bar, a sketch comedy series for 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.
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 received the Governor
General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement,
Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.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, (now 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 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.Ferguson
starred in the 2004 situation comedy pilot XPM. Ferguson is the owner
and executive producer of Don Ferguson Productions. In 2012 he
produced Comedy Bar, a sketch comedy series for 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.
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