Bretrick
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Dan Haggerty played the bushy-bearded, animal-loving woodsman in The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams.
He went from working on films as an animal trainer and stunt performer to starring as the gentle frontier woodsman in the popular 1970s television series.
In the sentimental, wholesome programme he played James Adams who leaves his home and family and flees to the Rocky Mountains after wrongly being accused of a murder.
Struggling to survive in a cabin in the wilderness, the woodsman befriends an orphaned grizzly bear he names Ben, after Benjamin Franklin, and other “critters” – raccoons, owls, deer, rabbits, hawks, badgers and cougars.
The story was based on the adventures of a real-life California trapper in the 1850s and began as a 1974 film.
The theme song, Maybe, became a hit single for its composer, Thom Pace, in 1979, reaching the Top 20 in the UK.
Dan Haggerty died in 2016.
(Taken from The Guardian)
Maybe - 1979
He went from working on films as an animal trainer and stunt performer to starring as the gentle frontier woodsman in the popular 1970s television series.
In the sentimental, wholesome programme he played James Adams who leaves his home and family and flees to the Rocky Mountains after wrongly being accused of a murder.
Struggling to survive in a cabin in the wilderness, the woodsman befriends an orphaned grizzly bear he names Ben, after Benjamin Franklin, and other “critters” – raccoons, owls, deer, rabbits, hawks, badgers and cougars.
The story was based on the adventures of a real-life California trapper in the 1850s and began as a 1974 film.
The theme song, Maybe, became a hit single for its composer, Thom Pace, in 1979, reaching the Top 20 in the UK.
Dan Haggerty died in 2016.
(Taken from The Guardian)
Maybe - 1979
