1. Daniel Francis Haggerty was an American actor who was best known for playing the title role in the film and television series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams.
19 Facts About Dan Haggerty
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Dan Haggerty worked as a stuntman on the 1966 television series Tarzan, and as set builder on various other projects.
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Dan Haggerty directed white tigers, wolverines, eagles, and wild boar in the 1974 feature film When the North Wind Blows for Sunn Classic Pictures, which produced The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, a wildly popular film released the same year, in which he portrayed the title character Grizzly Adams.
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Dan Haggerty starred in the television film Condominium, which starred Barbara Eden, Ralph Bellamy and Stuart Whitman.
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Dan Haggerty played a hydrology expert trying to warn residents that their Florida condos were about to be demolished in an approaching hurricane.
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Dan Haggerty guest-starred as Sawdust Radell on The Love Boat in 1983.
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Dan Haggerty made a cameo appearance as an attorney in Terror Night with John Ireland and Cameron Mitchell, starred in Night Wars as a Vietnam veteran who is a psychologist dealing with nightmares of his fellow veterans, and appeared in horror films such as Elves and the Linda Blair film The Chilling in 1989.
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Dan Haggerty starred in the 1989 film Spirit of the Eagle.
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Dan Haggerty played lead roles in the films Repo Jake and Elves.
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Dan Haggerty reprised his role in Escape to Grizzly Mountain.
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Dan Haggerty continued to work as both an actor and infomercial spokesman.
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Dan Haggerty had only been hired as a spokesperson and was found not to be part of the fraud that later embroiled the manufacturer.
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Dan Haggerty performed several voice-overs and can be seen in music videos by Hank Williams Jr.
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Dan Haggerty appeared on the US television show American Pickers in its episode "California Kustom", which aired on History on February 25,2013.
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Dan Haggerty married Diane Rooker in 1959 at a Las Vegas wedding chapel in the Silver Slipper Hotel when they were 17.
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Dan Haggerty lived on a small ranch in Malibu Canyon with an assortment of wild animals that he had tamed at birth or rescued from injury.
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In 1991, Dan Haggerty was hospitalized after a motorcycle accident left him in a coma.
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In 1985, Dan Haggerty received a jail sentence of 90 days and three years' probation after being convicted of selling cocaine to an undercover police officer.
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Dan Haggerty died of spinal cancer on January 15,2016, in Burbank, California.