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This Day in CBC History

On this day in 1966, Vancouver-born actor John Drainie died of cancer at age 50.

He began in local & CBC radio drama, including the long-running family drama Jake & the Kid.

On TV, he did live CBC drama before moving to New York where he worked on Studio One & Alcoa Hour.

He was host of CBC’s This Hour has Seven Days for one season, and starred in the US drama series ‘Scarlett Hill.’

Hat tip to the excellent web site Today in Broadcast History.

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leithcam says:

John Drainie was indeed an icon of CBC radio and television He was one of those superb Canadian actors who, through appearances on Andrew Allen’s ‘Stage’ series, made Canadian radio drama the best in the world. A correction. Scarlett Hill was a Canadian soap opera first broadcast on the CBC in October 1962. This was the first daytime soap opera produced for Canadian television.

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