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Daniel Francis Haggerty (November 19, 1942 – January 15, 2016) was an American actor, best known for playing the title role in The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams.
Haggerty's birthplace is alternately given by some sources as Los Angeles and as Pound, Wisconsin by other sources. His parents separated when he was 3. Haggerty grew up in a family that owned and operated a small wild animal attraction. There, he helped raise wild animals, including a black bear that performed tricks. After high school, he decided to pursue acting.
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.
Actors: Jack Ogilvie (editor), George Waggner (writer), George Waggner (writer), Howard Bretherton (director), Frankie Darro (actor), Mantan Moreland (actor), Gene O'Donnell (actor), Ralph Peters (actor), Rolfe Sedan (actor), Guy Usher (actor), Veda Ann Borg (actress), Betty Compson (actress), Lillian Elliott (actress), Lindsley Parsons (producer), John W. Krafft (writer),
Plot: Frankie Kelly, pageboy at the beauty salon ran by Madam Celeste, and his helper Jefferson find the routine broken when the body of one of the operators, Florence, is found in the dumbwaiter. She had been shot just before she was to give Detective Dan Haggerty information about a blackmail gang. Since Mary Baker, Frankie's girl friend saw her last, she is suspected, and Frankie determines to clear her using his own sleuthing methods. He has hardy begun when Pierre, another member of the staff, and Florence's fiancée is found dead.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, beauty-salon, murderActors: Arthur Dreifuss (producer), E.W. Hammons (miscellaneous crew), Blackjack Ward (actor), Arthur Kay (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Arthur Hoerl (writer), Clyde McClary (actor), Merrill McCormick (actor), Jack O'Shea (actor), Vince Barnett (actor), Milton Frome (actor), Joseph W. Girard (actor), Frank Ellis (actor), Pete Gordon (actor), George A. Hirliman (producer),
Plot: Sandy Doyle, gambler and political chief of a small border town, seeks to gain control of the Bar-X Ranch, owned by Rufe Rickson, to further some undercover activities of his own. He counts on Rickson's inability to stay away from gambling as the means to his ultimate success. Government investigator Oliver Shea and his assistant, Dan Haggerty, start a fight in Doyle's place when they see Rickson being cheated and are invited to the Bar-X where Oliver and Helen Rickson, Rufe's daughter, discover interest in each other and Dan finds himself pursued by Bell, the ranch cook. Sheriff Larson brings the prize money for the $5,000 race of the Rodeo Association, and that night it is stolen from her safe. The next day, Doyle says it was paid to him by Rickson for a gambling debt. Realizing that she must be free in order to prove her father's innocence, and that now her horse, Snowy, must win the race, Helen confesses to the theft and makes good her escape. Her sleuthing establishes that Doyle has been engaged in ore-smuggling activities, and his intent to gain the Bar-X is because the ranch offers a perfect crossing place for his gang, who salt the smuggled silver into a non-productive mine and ship it to the Mint as domestic production.
Keywords: arizona, b-movie, b-western, bordertown, combination-safe, cowgirl, damsel-in-distress, daughter, deceit, deception