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Report: Dan Haggerty, TV's Grizzly Adams, has died

TMZ reports that '70s TV star Dan Haggerty, famous for his role as Grizzly Adams, has died. CNN confirmed the news with his manager. He was 74.

Reports say that he had been on chemotherapy for a spinal tumor since last summer and that the problem had since spread to his lung.

Haggerty starred in the TV series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams as a mountain man who was friends with a grizzly bear. The show was only on the air for two seasons, but the name "Grizzly Adams" has survived in pop culture for decades.

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