Donald Francis Draper is a fictional character and the protagonist of AMC's television series Mad Men. He is portrayed by 2008 Golden Globe winner Jon Hamm. Draper is the creative director of a New York advertising firm, the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency, and his character is partially based on Draper Daniels, the creative head of the Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago in the 1950s who created the Marlboro Man campaign. In 2009 he was...
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Donald Francis Draper is a fictional character and the protagonist of AMC's television series Mad Men. He is portrayed by 2008 Golden Globe winner Jon Hamm. Draper is the creative director of a New York advertising firm, the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency, and his character is partially based on Draper Daniels, the creative head of the Leo Burnett advertising agency in Chicago in the 1950s who created the Marlboro Man campaign. In 2009 he was elected by Ask Men as the most influential man in the world, ahead of such people as Usain Bolt and Barack Obama.
Most of the characters in the series know little, if anything, of Draper’s history and true identity. Clues are given through flashbacks, confessions, and secret visits to figures from his past.
Draper was born Richard Whitman in 1925. His mother was a prostitute and his father, Archibald Whitman, her client. After his mother dies in childbirth, Dick was raised by his father and his wife, Abigail. When Dick was ten years old and...
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