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Ibson Dana Elcar (October 10, 1927 – June 6, 2005) was an American television and film character actor. He appeared in about 40 films as well as in the 1960s television series Dark Shadows as Sheriff George Patterson and the 1980s and 1990s television series MacGyver as Peter Thornton, MacGyver's immediate supervisor at the Phoenix Foundation.
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 of...
Dana Elcar was born on 10 October 1927 in Ferndale, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Sting (1973), MacGyver (1985) and 2010 (1984). He was married to Marianne Torrance, Mary Margaret "Peggy" Romano and Kathryn Frances Mead. He died on 6 June 2005 in Ventura, California, USA.
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- Ferndale, Michigan, USA
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Dana Elcar was an actor and director who appeared in The Sting, MacGyver and 2010: The Year We Make Contact. He went blind due to glaucoma and played a character with the same condition on MacGyver.
- October 10, 1927
- June 6, 2005
Jun 11, 2005 · June 11, 2005. VENTURA, Calif., June 10 - Dana Elcar, whose real-life struggle with blindness was written into his role on the television adventure series "MacGyver," died here on...
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Jun 11, 2005 · Actor Dana Elcar, a familiar face on dozens of TV shows but best known as co-star of the action series “MacGyver,” a role he kept even after going blind, has died at age 77, his agent’s office...
Jun 17, 2005 · Dana Elcar, who played Peter Thornton on MacGyver and appeared in more than 150 TV and movie productions, died of pneumonia in 2005. He was a versatile actor who also directed episodes of Baa Baa Black Sheep and The Rockford Files.
