- Date de naissance
- Date de décès6 juin 2005 · Ventura, Californie, États-Unis (complications d'une pneumonie)
- Nom de naissanceIbsen Dana Elcar
- Taille1,84 m
- Dana Elcar est né le 10 octobre 1927 dans le Michigan, États-Unis. Il était acteur et réalisateur. Il est connu pour L'Arnaque (1973), 2010 - L'année du premier contact (L'odyssée continue) (1984) et MacGyver (1985). Il était marié à Marianne Torrance, Mary Margaret "Peggy" Romano et Kathryn Frances Mead. Il est mort le 6 juin 2005 en Californie, États-Unis.
- ConjointsMarianne Torrance(1 juillet 1978 - 1995) (divorcé, 2 enfants)Mary Margaret "Peggy" Romano(28 décembre 1954 - novembre 1970) (divorcé, 1 enfant)Kathryn Frances Mead(8 septembre 1950 - 1952) (divorcé)
- EnfantsMarin Leah Torrance ElcarNora ElcarChandra Elcar
- ParentsHedvig Thora AnderbergJames Aage Elcar Sr.
- ProchesElsie Marie Elcar(Sibling)James Aage Elcar Jr.(Sibling)
- Played leaders of secret/government agencies on several occasions.
- When he started going blind, his character Peter Thornton on MacGyver (1985) was also written with the same affliction. His blindness was also written into his guest appearance on New York - Police judiciaire (1990), resulting from Diabetic Retinopathy.
- 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. Elcar appeared in almost every episode of the show, only backing out when becoming ill in his later years.
- Went blind due to Glaucoma c. 1991 and required special computer equipment to read printed text for the rest of his life.
- His body double on MacGyver (1985) was Don S. Davis who would later star on Stargate SG-1 (1997) with Elcar's co-star Richard Dean Anderson.
- Dana drove taxicab in New York City in the early 1960s prior to making the move to Los Angeles and Hollywood.
- "The fact that you are losing your eyesight does not mean you have forgotten how to act." - in a speech to the National Federation of the Blind in 1991.
- [on working his real-life blindness into his character on "MacGyver"] Certainly I, and I hope Pete Thornton, can to some degree inspire that in people, that life is wonderful. It's a very, very incredible and wonderful thing to experience and because you lose one segment of it, doesn't mean that it's less valuable, or over, or need end, but you can continue and be positive to yourself and positive with other people.
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