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Jun 10, 2005 · Dana Elcar, whose struggle with glaucoma and blindness was written into the character he was best known for portraying -- Peter Thornton on ABC’s “MacGyver” -- has died. He was 77. Elcar died...
Apr 20, 1991 · When MacGyver producers were faced with Dana Elcar’s impending blindness they drew what seemed like the only logical, albeit tough, conclusion – to end the Pete Thornton role.
MacGyver: Created by Lee David Zlotoff. With Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar, Bruce McGill, Robin Mossley. The adventures of a secret Agent armed with almost infinite scientific resourcefulness.
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- 1985-09-29
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Befriended Richard Dean Anderson on the set of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" in 1982. Anderson remembered Elcar when production on "MacGyver" started, and recommended Elcar for the part of Pete Thornton, MacGyver's friend and director of operations at The Phoenix Foundation.
- October 10, 1927
- June 6, 2005
Pilot: Directed by Jerrold Freedman. With Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Lerner, Dana Elcar, Paul Stewart. An underground lab is destroyed by a mysterious explosion. MacGyver is sent in to rescue the trapped scientists and stop a deadly chemical leak.
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- Action, Adventure, Crime
- Jerrold Freedman
- 1985-09-29
Sep 10, 1991 · Shooting the episode in which Elcar’s disease is first exposed, so upset MacGyver’s star, Richard Dean Anderson, he had to leave the set more than once. “He kind of lost it,” says executive producer Steve Downing.
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Jun 10, 2005 · Dana Elcar, the round-faced, balding actor whose real-life struggle with blindness was written into his role on the TV adventure series “MacGyver,” has died. He was 77.
