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Donald Francis "Don" Draper, born Richard "Dick" Whitman, is a fictional character and the protagonist of the AMC television series Mad Men (2007–2015), portrayed by Jon Hamm. At the beginning of the series, Draper is the charismatic yet enigmatic creative director at the fictional Manhattan advertising firm Sterling Cooper.
- Adam Whitman
- Anna Draper
- Stephanie and Patty Horton
- Pete Campbell
- Bert Cooper
- Betty Francis
- Doris
- Faye Miller
- Sally and Bobby Draper
- Megan Calvet-Draper
Adam Whitman (Jay Paulson) was Dick's younger half-brother. Adam and Dick had the same father and the younger sibling idolized Dick, who was a decade older. Dick never returned from Korea and Adam was left wondering whatever happened to him until 1960, when Adam saw Don's photo in the newspaper and recognized "Don Draper" as his big brother. In Mad...
Anna Draper (Melinda Page Hamilton) was the widow of Lt. Don Draperand the first person to discover that Dick Whitman had assumed her husband's identity. Anna tracked Dick down when he was a used car salesman in the 1950s but they struck up an arrangement that blossomed into a genuine friendship and affection, though never romance. Don bought Anna ...
Patty Horton (Susan Leslie) was Anna Draper's sister and her daughter Stephanie (Caity Lotz) was Anna's niece. Patty already knew about Dick assuming Don's identity in Mad Men season 4 so presumably, Anna let her sister in on the secret and Don had met Patty in the years before Mad Men began. Stephanie also knew Don as Dick when they met in Mad Men...
Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) had a roller-coaster relationship with Don where they were sometimes rivals and sometimes allies. Pete both admired and resented Don but in Mad Men season 1, Campbell was actively trying to ruin Draper's career and ultimately intercepted the shoebox containing Dick Whitman's past that Adam had sent to Don. Natural...
Bert Cooper found out that Don Draper wasn't really who he said he was when Pete Campbell tried to blackmail Don and told Cooper that Draper was a deserter who deceived everyone. Cooper shocked both Don and Pete with his response: "Who cares?" Bert noted that there were plenty of successful men with worse histories. However, Cooper did use the fact...
Betty finally discovered the truth about Don in Mad Menseason 3 when she broke into the desk in his home office and found the shoebox of memorabilia. Betty, who was already unhappy in her marriage to Don and suspicious of his many affairs, found out that he was really Dick Whitman and she learned that Don was married to Anna Draper when she found t...
After his divorce from Betty, Don's alcoholism got out of control inMad Menseason 4. During the episode "Waldorf Stories," Don went on a bender after he won a CLIO award. He picked up a woman at a bar and brought her home only to wake up days later in bed with a different woman, Doris (Becky Wahlstrom), a waitress he picked up some point during the...
Dr. Faye Miller (Cara Buono) was a strategist for a consumer research company that consulted with Mad Men agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce in season 4. Faye got romantically involved with Don and he confessed that he was really Dick Whitman during his panic attack about the background check. Faye helpfully urged Don to deal with his secret inste...
Sally Draper (Kiernan Shipka) idolized her father but as she entered her teenage years she became more and more disappointed in Don. When Don and Megan took the kids to California in Mad Men's season 4 finale, Don brought Sally and Bobby to Anna Draper's home as it was being vacated. When Sally asked who painted "Dick" on the wall, Don admitted tha...
When Don married Megan, he proved that he learned the crucial lesson not to repeat his mistake with Betty. Don proposed to Megan in Mad Men's season 4 finale, "Tomorrowland," and they were married in the interim before Mad Men's season 5 premiere, "A Little Kiss." During those happy months together, Don apparently told Megan the truth about his pas...
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He is regarded among his colleagues as the best to ever pitch copy. His true name is Richard "Dick" Whitman. He stole the identity of a dead officer during the Korean War. Childhood [] Born in 1925/1926, Richard "Dick" Whitman was born to a posthumous mother.
Jul 31, 2020 · As Dick Whitman, he was a soldier serving under Lieutenant Don Draper. It is revealed that the real Don died in an explosion and Dick assumed his identity, taking the chance to end his service early and sever all ties to his previous life, along with its associated traumas.
Dec 13, 2014 · In the first season of Mad Men, it is revealed that Don Draper was born Richard Whitman, but stole the identity "Don Draper" from a fellow soldier who died in Korea. The other soldier's body was not recognizable, so Whitman switched dog-tags with the dead man, and acted as if he was Don Draper from then on.
Oct 18, 2010 · The matter of Don's identity has always been one of bifurcation: Dick Whitman or Don Draper. He was pretending to be one, when in reality he was the other. But this season was not about...
Some time later, Lt. Draper's real wife Anna Draper, having been seemingly deserted by her husband, tracked down "Don Draper" and found Dick Whitman posing as Draper and working to sell used cars. She was initially fearful of Dick, but he quickly put her at ease and confessed the truth of Lt. Draper's fate.
