Harry King Cole

Harry King Cole (30 May 1918 - 13 August 1993) was an American entertainer.

He was a regular cast memeber in Hee Haw.

Biography
King Harry Cole "Weeping Willie" spent his entire lifetime has an entertainer. He worked showboats, medicine shows "where he actually brewed the medicine he sold," vaudeville, stock companies, burlesque, tent shows, carnivals, night clubs, radio, and television.

Harry King Cole was born in 1918 in a hotel room in Thomas, West Virginia. He always joked a funny thing happened to his mother on the way home from the theater. He was from a theatrical family. His great-grandparents were the Brownings, who were in show business their entire lives. His grandparents were Harry and Eva LaReane owned their own theatrical company. His father was a juggler and his mother a singer, actress, and musician who was also a champion rope spinner and, as Harry remembered, "a darned good cook."

Harry served his country during WW II in the Air Corps. He was a medical supply sergeant but he spent his four-year hitch writing and producing over 200 shows for American and Canadian troops as a way to boost morale! It was here that Weeping Willie was born when he wrote a skit about a man that was always drinking and crying and always down on his luck. He retired in the Mid 1970s.