Grizzly Adams star Dan Haggerty dies aged 74 (news.sky.com).
“The actor lost his battle with spine cancer early on Friday at a medical centre surrounded by his family in Burbank, California, according to his manager Terry Bomar. Mr Bomar told Fox News: ‘He had cancer and had been fighting since July, and he had a great Thanksgiving and a great Christmas, and he died with his kids around him and people who love him.’ Haggerty starred as gentle giant California mountain man James Capen ‘Grizzly’ Adams, who adopts an orphaned bear.”
An epithet that far outlived the shows only two seasons, still in use by those that were not around to see it; the aboriginal example all “lumbersexual” hipsters took their lead from.
#RIPDanHaggerty (Twitter).