Background
Haren was born in San Bernardino County, California.
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Christian Haren
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He attended school and colleges in San Bernardino.
Career
In his 20s he served in the United States Army during the 1950s. In the 1960s Haren received a studio contract from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and starred in Vincente Minnelli"s Bells Are Ringing, Otto Preminger"s In Harm"s Way, and Billy Rose"s Jumbo. He starred on Broadway in the Bertolt Brecht play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, produced by Tony Richardson.
He is best remembered for playing the role of the Marlboro Manitoba in print advertisements in the early 1960s.
Haren was openly gay and the proprietor of the popular Palm Springs gay bar Central Committee Construction Company in later years. In 1985 he was diagnosed with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and became active in Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome prevention education.
He started "The Wedge", a "safe sex" Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome prevention organization for teens in San Francisco. Haren died in 1996 in San Francisco, California of complications from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, at the age of 61.
His life was the subject of the 1998 documentary short Castro Cowboy.
