Up for auction "Grizzly Adams" Dan Haggerty Hand Signed 8X10 Color Photo. 

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Daniel

Francis Haggerty (November

19, 1941 – January 15, 2016) was an American actor who was best known for

playing the title role in the film and television series The Life and

Times of Grizzly Adams. Haggerty's birthplace is given as Pound, Wisconsin, and his birth year has been

reported as 1941. His parents separated when he was three. Haggerty was cast in

a small non-speaking role as a bodybuilder in the 1964 film Muscle Beach Party and

also as a bodybuilder in Girl Happy. These were followed by appearances in various

biker and wildlife films such as Easy Rider, Angels Die Hard, The Adventures of Frontier

Fremont, and Terror Out of the Sky. His experience

with animals also brought him work as an animal trainer and handler in films

produced by Walt Disney

Studios. Additionally, Haggerty also worked as a stuntman on the television series Tarzan, and as set

builder on various other projects. He directed white tigers, wolverines, eagles

and wild boar in When the North Wind Blows and worked with

bears, foxes and hawks in the 1997 film Grizzly Mountain. Haggerty

portrayed the character Grizzly Adams[7] in the title role of the 1974 Sunn Classic Pictures feature, The Life and

Times of Grizzly Adams. From this feature film evolved the NBC

television series of the same name which ran from 1977 to 1978, and Haggerty

became known to movie-goers for his portrayal of nature-loving James Capen

"Grizzly" Adams. Haggerty appeared briefly in David Carradine's film Americana and provided a fighting dog for the

production. In the film, he not only played the role of the dog's trainer, but

also assisted in set design and the restoration of a broken down carousel,

which figured prominently in the film.[8] He assisted in building the motorcycles featured in the film Easy Rider,[9] and had a bit part as a hippie in that film, as well as stunt work and supporting

roles in numerous low-budget biker films of the era. He also starred in the

1989 film Spirit of the Eagle. Haggerty continued to work as both

an actor and infomercial spokesman. One of his

endorsements was for the Pap-Ion Magnetic Inductor (PAP-IMI),

a device alleged to have health benefits. He had only been hired as a

spokesperson and was found not to be part of the fraud that later embroiled the

manufacturer. Haggerty

played lead roles in the films 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?. Haggerty

starred in the television film Condominium (1980),

which also starred Barbara Eden, Ralph Bellamy and Stuart Whitman. Haggerty played a hydrology expert trying to

warn residents that their Florida condos were about to be demolished in an

approaching hurricane. He was also on Charlie's Angels, season 5

episode 5, called "Waikiki Angels" as Bo Thompson that aired January

4, 1981. He guest-starred on The Love Boat in 1983 ("World's Greatest

Kisser"). He cameoed as an attorney in Terror Night (1987) with John Ireland and Cameron Mitchell, starred

in Night Wars (1988) as a Vietnam veteran who is a psychologist dealing with

nightmares of his fellow veterans, and appeared in horror films such as Elves and the Linda Blair film The Chilling in 1989.

In Big Stan (2007), he played Tubby, and appeared as a

lumberjack foreman in Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan (2013).

Haggerty has also done several voice-overs and can also be seen in music videos

by Hank Williams Jr. and

Rogues of the Empire. Haggerty appeared on the U.S. television show American Pickers in its episode "California

Kustom", which aired February 25, 2013.