Dan Haggerty, 73; trained animals, was ‘Grizzly Adams’
NEW YORK — Dan Haggerty, who played a gentle mountain man with a luxuriant beard and a bear named Ben in the 1974 movie “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams” and the NBC television series of the same name, died Friday in Burbank, Calif. He was 73.The cause was cancer of the spine, his friend and manager Terry Bomar said.Mr. Haggerty was working as a stuntman and animal handler in Hollywood when a producer asked him to act in some opening scenes he was reshooting for a film about a woodsman and his bear.
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RIP Grizzly.
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Grizzly Adams is dead.
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22-01-16, 01:22Mister AndersonGrizzly Adams is dead.
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22-01-16, 01:29alcatel
Gone to mountain man heaven with Mad Jack and number 7.
Flapjacks forevermore. -
22-01-16, 01:40Mister AndersonQuote:
Originally Posted by alcatel
I doubt the real Grizzly Adams would have kept that noisy donkey around the gaff. Donkey burgers more like. I just noticed that he died last Friday. I guess it went under the radar with all the high profile deaths we've had recently. I use to love the show when I was a kid. -
22-01-16, 01:46Vitruvian
Rugged, resilient, real.!!
Who needs Schwarzenegger.
Built a truck once, bearing the name Grizzly :)
True story. -
22-01-16, 01:55alcatelIt shows how much bs I post, when I can say this is the second time in a couple of months, that I have posted the fact on this site, that the donkey was a mule.Quote:
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And as he only infequently delivered the supplies with his owner Jack, Grizzly's hearing was safe from excessive braying. -
22-01-16, 01:56amylove69
Loved that program .. RIP ...
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22-01-16, 02:07Mister AndersonI know man, but when you're 7 years old it seems like that f**king 'mule' is there all too often ;)Quote:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9fzHBJU1Oo
Thanks Amy, I didn't want to ruin my manly image by posting that song. -
22-01-16, 02:13amylove69Your rep would have been safe, anything is acceptable on an RIP thread.Quote:
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I love it so would post it on any thread ;) and suffer the flack xx -
22-01-16, 02:27Mister AndersonQuote:
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"Deep inside the forest there's a door into another land"
When I was a kid I believed there actually was. I use to think I'd find it when I'd go camping in the woods :o -
22-01-16, 03:42alcatelReminds me of Bosco.... wasn't a fan.Quote:
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Knock, knock, open wide.
See what's on the other side.
Knock, knock, anymore.
Come with me, through the magic door.
Did like Grizzly Adams though. -
22-01-16, 09:30amylove69i still believe it.Quote:
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22-01-16, 11:17circumcised guyRIP Dan haggerty i remember i always had to watch grizzly Adams i couldn't miss an episode and yea I'm a soppy fucker because I use to love the theme tune.Quote:
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