That's right, a third celebrity cancer death in the space of under a week - Dan Haggerty, the star of 1970s movie and TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, has died at the age of 74. A diagnosis of spine cancer was reportedly made after the actor had surgery for back pain five months ago. His manager, Terry Bomar, said Haggerty died at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Centre in Burbank, California. The US star became famous after playing the bearded, rugged frontiersman, loosely based on a real-life 19th-century California mountain man, John Capen Adams, in a low-budget, hit 1974 movie. Three years later NBC commissioned a TV series, which ran from 1977-78, about a woodsman, wrongly accused of a murder, who flees to the mountains and raises an orphaned bear cub he names Ben. Haggerty went on to star in horror films, children's movies, comedies, and other Grizzly Adams-style works; also appeared in TV shows Charlies Angels, The Love Boat, and CHiPs; and worked as an animal trainer for Walt Disney Studios. Before Grizzly Adams, Haggerty appeared in Elvis Presley movie Girl Happy and 1969 road movie Easy Rider. Hopefully, Justin Bieber will one day join him.
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