Nationality Canada Role Actor Name Larry Solway | Years active 1960s–1990s Occupation broadcaster Books The Day I Invented Sex | |
Spouse Shirley Solway (m. 1950–2012) Movies The Brood, Meatballs, The Assistant, Flaming Frontier Similar People Ivan Reitman, Daniel Petrie, Sam Newfield | ||
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Lawrence S. "Larry" Solway (13 August 1928 – 9 January 2012) was a Canadian actor and broadcaster.
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- Edgar bergen interview on the larry solway show canadian tv circa 1974 audio only
- Career
- Radio
- Television
- Film
- Books
- Theatre
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Career
During the 1960s he hosted radio programmes at CHUM in Toronto such as the early Canadian talk show Speak Your Mind. He left the station in 1970 due to a dispute with the station over a series of shows on sex. In the aftermath, he wrote The Day I Invented Sex about the controversy.
Solway was known nationally as a panelist of the CBC Television programme This Is the Law in the early 1970s. He returned to the radio talk show circuit later that decade with Talkback on Brampton, Ontario station CHIC until management there dismissed him without warning. He was seen in minor roles in films such as Meatballs and The Brood. In the late 1970s he was a columnist for the newly launched Sunday Star.
He was a candidate for the Ontario New Democratic Party in the 1999 Ontario general election but was unsuccessful in his campaign in St. Paul's riding.
In a column written for Straight Goods, Solway lamented the "Christmas Envy" that he felt as a Jew.
Solway was diagnosed with bladder cancer at age 83. In November 2011 he wrote a final blog post to say goodbye to his readers. He died 9 January 2012, at Toronto General Hospital of complications arising from his bladder cancer.
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Theatre
Returned to the stage 1979-1984. Appearances at Neptune Halifax, Oakville, Red Barn, Teller's Cage, National Arts Centre. Appeared in leading roles in "Same Times Next Year" "Plaza Suite" "The Subject Was Roses." "Last of the Red Hot Lovers."