Dan Haggerty is a well-known actor who has appeared in films such as Big Stan (2007), Elves (1989), and Abducted (1986). For his depiction as John Grizzly Adams in The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams in 1974, he was able to win the hearts of a million nature-loving moviegoers.

Dan Haggerty’s net worth

Dan Haggerty is a well-known actor with a net worth of $2.5 million. His net worth is made up of all of his properties as well as his earnings from his acting career and his new restaurant endeavor. He was able to make a respectable living from his acting career throughout his life.

Dan Haggerty’s Childhood

Dan Haggerty was born Daniel Francis Haggerty in Los Angeles, California, on November 19, 1942. Other websites, however, state that he was born in Pound, Wisconsin. Donald Pual Haggerty, a film technicians’ union official, and Ruth Elaine Leonhardt were his parents. Haggerty’s parents divorced when he was three years old, although they remained involved in his childhood.

Dan Haggerty’s Career

Haggerty’s working talents with animals and muscular build landed him his first acting part in Muscle Beach Party, but it was a nonspeaking role, and he also starred in Girl Happy in 1974. He also appeared in a number of biker films, including Easy Rider, Angels Die Hard, and others. In the film When the North Wind Blows, he demonstrated his animal handling skills by training white tigers, a wild boar, and wolverines.

CAPTION: Dan Haggerty, Grizzyl Adams star (SOURCE: latimes)

Haggerty was then cast in the film The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, which became a box office smash and catapulted him to celebrity. Following this film, he featured in a number of animal-friendly films and reprised his role as Grizzly Adams in sequels such as Grizzly Adams, Grizzly Mountain, and Escape from Grizzly Mountain.

He also won the People’s Choice Award for most popular actor and the Dove Foundation’s Diamond Seal of Approval for The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams.

Personal Life of Dan Haggerty

Dan Haggerty had two marriages. Danie Rooker, his first wife, married him when he was barely 17 years old in 1959. Their 25-year marriage was a success. The couple has three children: Don, a son, and Tammy and Tracey, two daughters. In the same year that he divorced Rooker, he married Samantha Hilton. He had two sons, Cody and Dylan, and a daughter, Megan, with his second wife.

Samantha Haggerty died in a biking accident on August 10, 2008. He never remarried after that, remaining a widower until his death.

Death

In 1977, Haggerty was involved in a major accident in which he caught fire and suffered third-degree burns, which he survived. In 1991, he was involved in another terrifying motorcycle accident, this time putting him in a coma. He needed 200 stitches to close the wound on his forehead, and his pelvis was broken. He made it through that as well.

He survived two near-death experiences before succumbing to cancer. Haggerty was diagnosed with spine cancer in August 2015, after undergoing back surgery. He died of the cancer in Burbank, California, in January 2016.