Larry Solway

Lawrence S. "Larry" Solway (13 August 1928 – 9 January 2012) was a Canadian actor and broadcaster.

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.

Radio 1960s: Speak Your Mind, 1050 CHUM September 1976 - January 1979: Talkback (CHIC) September 1986 – ?: Larry Solway Show, CFGM 1989 – ?: talk show, CFLY-FM Talk show host CFRB 1991–92, Talk 640 1995-97

Television Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans, Indian characters (1957–58) Flashback (1966–68), panellist various CBC Television news features (1971–74) This Is the Law (1971–75), panellist - CBC Juliette and Friends (1973–75), co-host Larry Solway Show (1974–76) - syndicated Our Fellow Americans (1976) - 8-part CBC documentary

Film Meatballs (1979) as Interviewer The Brood (1979) as Lawyer

Books The Day I Invented Sex (McClelland and Stewart, 1971; ) Don't Be Blindsided by Retirement (2008; ). Author Andrew Bertram; Solway was a contributor.

Theatre Solway returned to the stage from 1979 to 1984, with appearances at Neptune Halifax, Oakville, Red Barn, Teller's Cage, and the National Arts Centre. He appeared in leading roles in Same Time Next Year, Plaza Suite, The Subject Was Roses, and Last of the Red Hot Lovers.

Personal life 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 the cancer.