GRIZZLY ADAMS Star Dan Haggerty Dies at 74

Variety reports that Dan Haggerty, perhaps best known in the TV series THE LIFE AND ITMES OF GRIZZLY ADAMS, passed away today at the age of 74 following a battle with cancer. The news was confirmed by his manager Terry Bomar to ABC News.

Haggerty portrayed the character Grizzly Adams in the title role of the 1974 Sunn Classic Pictures feature, THE LIFE and Times of Grizzly Adams. He followed it up with the NBC television series of the same name which ran from 1977 to 1978.

In addition, Haggerty played the lead role in the movies Repo Jake (1990), ELVES (1990), Grizzly Mountain (1995), and Escape to Grizzly Mountain (2000). He was also featured as a character in Al Franken's novel, Why Not Me?.

The actor starred in the TV miniseries Condominium (1980), which also starred Barbara Eden, Ralph Bellamy and Stuart Whitman. He guest starred on The Love Boat in 1983 ("World's Greatest Kisser") and appeared in horror films such as ELVES and the Linda Blair film The Chillingin 1989. In Big Stan (2007), he played Tubby, and appeared as a lumberjack foreman in Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan (2013). He has also appeared on the American reality TV show American Pickers. [source]

Watch a clip from GRIZZLY ADAMS below: