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Actor Dan Haggerty, better known to a generation raised on ’70s television as Grizzly Adams, died early Friday after a battle with cancer.
He was 74.
Haggerty had been undergoing hospital treatment, sources told TMZ, but friends and family made the grim pilgrimage to say their goodbyes in recent days.
Born in Wisconsin, Haggerty got an appropriate start, helping his family run a wildlife attraction. Feeling the call of the wild from Hollywood, he found work in the movie business as a hulking extra, animal trainer and stuntman.
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With his trademark bushy beard and rugged frame, Haggerty rose to fame with the 1974 film, “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams,” loosely based on a real life California mountain man who trained grizzly bears a century earlier.
Part of his casting came from the actor’s comfort with trained bears from his childhood.
The flick proved a sizeable box office hit at the time — foraging $45 million — and inspired an NBC television series that ran from 1977-78.
The ensuing decades hadn’t been as kind to Haggerty. In 1984, he was arrested for cocaine possession and served 90 days in jail, according to the LA Times, with an effect on his career lasting much, much longer.
He haunted the direct-to-video horror genre and hawked products in informercials.
Haggerty’s last movie credit, appropriately enough, was a cameo in the 2013 flick about a different mountain man, “Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan.”
His wife, Samantha, died after in a motorcycle accident in 2008.
In recent days, cancer has claimed the lives of actor Alan Rickman, Celine Dion’s husband, Rene Angelil and music legend David Bowie.