58 Facts About Larry Hagman

Larry Hagman died on November 23,2012, from complications of acute myeloid leukemia.

Larry Hagman was born on September 21,1931, in Fort Worth, Texas.

Larry Hagman's father, Benjamin Jackson Hagman, who was of Swedish descent, was an accountant and lawyer who worked as a district attorney.

Larry Hagman's parents divorced in 1936 when he was five years old.

Larry Hagman lived with his maternal grandmother, Juanita Presley Martin, in Texas and California, while his mother became a contract player with Paramount in 1938.

In 1940, Larry Hagman's mother met and married Richard Halliday before giving birth to a daughter, Heller, the following year.

Larry Hagman attended a strict academy, Black-Foxe Military Institute and briefly Woodstock Country School, a boarding school in Vermont.

When his mother moved to New York City to resume her Broadway career, Larry Hagman again lived with his grandmother in California.

In 1946, Larry Hagman moved back to his hometown of Weatherford, and attended Weatherford High School, from which he graduated.

Larry Hagman graduated from high school in 1949, and decided to pursue acting.

Larry Hagman attended Bard College, New York, majoring in dance and drama, but dropped out after one year.

Larry Hagman began his career in 1950 acting in productions at Margaret Webster's school at the Woodstock Playhouse in Woodstock, New York.

Larry Hagman appeared in The Taming of the Shrew in New York City, followed by numerous tent show musicals with St John Terrell's Music Circus in St Petersburg, Florida and Lambertville, New Jersey.

In 1951, Larry Hagman appeared in the London production of South Pacific with his mother and stayed in the show for nearly a year.

In 1952, Larry Hagman received his draft notice and enlisted in the United States Air Force.

Larry Hagman appeared in four other Broadway plays, God and Kate Murphy, The Nervous Set, The Warm Peninsula and The Beauty Part.

In 1961, Larry Hagman joined the cast of daytime soap opera The Edge of Night as Ed Gibson and stayed in that role for two years.

In 1965, Larry Hagman was cast as "genie" Barbara Eden's master and eventual love interest, Air Force Captain Anthony Nelson, in the NBC situation comedy I Dream of Jeannie, which ran for five seasons from 1965 to 1970.

Fifteen Years Later and I Still Dream of Jeannie, but Larry Hagman did not appear in either of them.

At Dragon Con, in 2010, Larry Hagman said he was never approached about it.

Larry Hagman reunited with Eden on stage in the play Love Letters at the College of Staten Island in New York and the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.

In 1978, Larry Hagman was offered two roles on two television series that were debuting.

When Larry Hagman read the Dallas script at his wife's suggestion, they both concluded it was perfect for him.

Larry Hagman based his portrayal in part on Jess Hall Jr.

Larry Hagman became one of the best-known television stars of the era.

Larry Hagman continued to fight for his demands and network executives conceded that they wanted JR to remain on Dallas.

Larry Hagman was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards, between 1981 and 1985.

Larry Hagman was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest award seven times for Outstanding Villain on a Prime Time Serial, Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role on a Prime Time Serial, Favorite Super Couple: Prime Time and Outstanding Actor in a Comic Relief Role on a Prime Time Serial and won five times.

Larry Hagman received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement from Academy member Ray Lee Hunt at the 1981 Achievement Summit in Dallas.

Larry Hagman was the only actor to appear in all 357 episodes.

Larry Hagman had made five guest appearances on the Dallas spin-off series Knots Landing in the early 1980s.

Some years after Dallas ended, Larry Hagman appeared in two subsequent Dallas television movies: JR Returns in 1996 and War of the Ewings in 1998.

Larry Hagman reprised his role as JR Ewing in TNT's continuation of Dallas, which began in 2012.

Unused footage of Larry Hagman was used in season three as part of the season's story arc, which aired in 2014.

Larry Hagman starred in two short-lived series in the 1970s, The Good Life and Here We Go Again.

In 1993, Larry Hagman starred in Staying Afloat as a down-on-his-luck former millionaire who agrees to work undercover with the FBI to maintain his playboy lifestyle.

In January 1997, Larry Hagman starred in a short-lived television series titled Orleans as Judge Luther Charbonnet, which lasted only eight episodes.

In 2002, he made an appearance in the fourth series of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's British comedy panel game, Shooting Stars, often appearing bewildered at the nonsensical questions and the antics of the hosts - during the show Larry Hagman even stated that he would fire his agent as a result.

In January 2011, Larry Hagman made a guest appearance in the seventh season of Desperate Housewives as a new husband for Lynette Scavo's mother, Stella.

Larry Hagman directed episodes of I Dream of Jeannie and The Good Life, as well as several episodes of Dallas and In the Heat of the Night, which was the only series he directed, but in which he did not act.

In 1980, Larry Hagman recorded a single called "Ballad of the Good Luck Charm".

In 2010, Larry Hagman was hired as a spokesman for SolarWorld, a German solar energy commercial enterprise.

In 1973, his stepfather Richard Halliday died and Larry Hagman reconciled with his mother, Mary Martin, soon after.

Larry Hagman was a member of the Peace and Freedom Party from the 1960s.

In 1995, Larry Hagman underwent a life-saving liver transplant after he was diagnosed with liver cancer, which was most likely brought on by roughly 40 years of heavy drinking.

Larry Hagman was a heavy smoker as a young man before quitting at age 34.

Larry Hagman was the chairman of the American Cancer Society's annual Great American Smokeout for many years and worked on behalf of the National Kidney Foundation.

In 2001, Larry Hagman wrote his autobiography titled Hello Darlin': Tall Tales About My Life.

Maj Larry Hagman was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2008 and Larry Hagman at first took the lead in caring for her, but her condition deteriorated.

Larry Hagman had a long friendship with actor Carroll O'Connor, beginning in 1959 when Larry Hagman was starring in the Broadway play God and Kate Murphy and O'Connor was working as an assistant stage manager.

O'Connor renegotiated his contract over his salary on All in the Family in 1974, causing him to miss two episodes and Larry Hagman did the same during his tenure with Dallas, with similar results.

Larry Hagman directed several episodes of O'Connor's later series In the Heat of the Night.

In June 2011, Larry Hagman said he had stage 2 throat cancer.

Larry Hagman died on November 23,2012, at Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas following complications from acute myeloid leukemia, after being interviewed for the National Geographic documentary The '80s: The Decade that Made Us, which aired in April 2013.

Plus, Larry Hagman was savvy about the business, which I wasn't.

Larry Hagman was creative, generous, funny, loving and talented and I will miss him enormously.

Larry Hagman was an original and lived life to the fullest.

Larry Hagman was a fighter in the gentlest way, against his obstacles and for his friends.