Don Daynard
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Don Daynard, also billed as Dazzling Don, is a Canadian radio personality and a former television film critic.
Daynard hosted CHFI-FM's morning drive time show from 1987 to 1999, for much of that time with co-host Erin Davis. Daynard continued to host Saturday Night Oldies for the station until his full retirement in 2003.
Daynard had worked in Toronto radio for decades. In the mid- to late-1960s, he hosted a midday shift at CFGM. In the late 1960s, he hosted the morning show at CKFH. From the 1970s to 1984, he hosted mornings at CKFM, departing in October 1987 for CHFI.
Daynard's voice, portraying a radio announcer, is the first voice heard in the 1982 film Porky's. In 1977, he guest-starred in the Canadian television sitcom King of Kensington.
In the early 1980s, Daynard hosted a television series discussing and reviewing feature films for the Ontario educational television network TVOntario.
Daynard now resides in Cambridge, Ontario, west of Toronto.
While best-known as Daynard, his legal surname is spelled "Danard."
