The Life and Legacy of Grizzly Adams
Dan Haggerty, best known for playing Grizzly Adams—a peaceful mountain man with “a luxurious beard and a bear named Ben”—died Friday in Burbank, California.
His friend and manager, Terry Bomar, said the cause was “cancer of the spine.”
Haggerty was a Hollywood stuntman and animal handler when asked to help reshoot scenes for a film about “a woodsman and his bear.”
He agreed, “but only on the condition that he took on the entire film.”
Made for $165,000, it earned nearly $30 million and inspired a hit NBC series in 1977.
