1. Maurice William Elias, known professionally as James Stacy, was an American film and television actor who starred in the late 1960s TV western Lancer.
21 Facts About James Stacy
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In 1973, Stacy was hit by a drunk driver while riding his motorcycle, resulting in his left leg being severed.
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James Stacy's left arm, nearly severed in the accident, was later amputated in the hospital.
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James Stacy returned to acting in 1975 before retiring in 1992.
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James Stacy was born Maurice William Elias on December 23,1936, in Los Angeles to an Ulster-Scots waitress and a Lebanese American bookmaker.
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James Stacy made his film debut in Sayonara in 1957, and his television debut in Highway Patrol.
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James Stacy had a recurring role as "Fred" in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet from 1958 to 1963.
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James Stacy is perhaps best remembered as a star of the western series Lancer, along with Andrew Duggan, Wayne Maunder, and Paul Brinegar.
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James Stacy played the character "Johnny Madrid Lancer", a former gunslinger, the son of Duggan's character, Murdoch Lancer.
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James Stacy acted in several motion pictures from the 1950s through the 1970s, including a minor part in the musical South Pacific.
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On September 27,1973, James Stacy was taking Claire Cox for a ride on his motorcycle in the Hollywood Hills when a drunken driver struck them.
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Cox was killed and James Stacy lost his left arm and leg.
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In 1976, James Stacy won a $1.9 million lawsuit against the bar that had served the drunk driver.
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In 1977, James Stacy starred in the TV movie Just a Little Inconvenience as a double-amputee Vietnam veteran.
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James Stacy played Ed, the Bartender in the Disney film Something Wicked This Way Comes.
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James Stacy married actress and singer Connie Stevens on October 12,1963, in Hollywood.
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In November 1995, James Stacy pleaded no contest to a charge of molesting an 11-year-old girl.
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The prosecutor said she believed James Stacy might have been eligible for probation for the molestation, but his post-arrest behavior, coupled with two arrests in June 1995 for prowling at the homes of other girls, led her to seek a prison sentence.
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James Stacy served his sentence at the California Institution for Men in Chino, California.
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On September 9,2016, James Stacy died of anaphylactic shock in Ventura, California after being administered an antibiotic injection at the office of Dr Cedric Emery.
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James Stacy is portrayed by Timothy Olyphant in the 2019 Quentin Tarantino film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.