Dana Elcar Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Dana Elcar Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Ibsen Dana Elcar (October 10, 1927 â€" June 6, 2005) was an American

television and film character actor. He appeared in about 40 films as

well as on the 1980s and 1990s television series MacGyver as Peter

Thornton, MacGyver’s immediate supervisor at the Phoenix Foundation.

Elcar had appeared in the pilot episode of MacGyver as Andy Colson

before assuming the role of Thornton.Elcar was born in Ferndale,

Michigan, the son of Hedwig (née Anderberg) and James Aage Elcar, a

carpenter and butcher. He was an alumnus of the University of Michigan

where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. At age 18,

Elcar enlisted and served a tour of duty in the United States Navy at

the end of World War II. He moved to New York in the 1950s to become a

professional thespian. He was a student of legendary acting coach

Sanford Meisner. He brought this education to bear when in 1986, with

fellow character actor William Lucking, he formed the Santa Paula

Theater Center. Elcar sat as artistic director for six years.In 1962,

he created the role of the hit-man Ben in the U.S. premiere of Harold

Pinter's The Dumb Waiter at the Cherry Lane Theater in Greenwich

Village, New York City. That same year he was cast on the long running

CBS daytime drama, The Guiding Light as Andrew Murray, the District

Attorney of Los Angeles County. Later in 1962 and 1963, due to his

stint on The Guiding Light, he was cast in three episodes of the NBC

sitcom, Car 54, Where Are You?, and two segments of the ABC crime

drama, Naked City, both set in New York City. In 1966 and 1967, Elcar

played Sheriff George Patterson on the vampire soap opera Dark

Shadows. He played Inspector Shiller, the supervisor, in the crime

drama, Baretta, starring Robert Blake.Elcar guest starred on Get

Smart, CBS's Mission: Impossible and Storefront Lawyers in 1970. In

1971, he was a guest star on Ironside. He appeared on The Waltons and

Kung Fu in 1973. He had a regular role as Colonel Lard in the

1976â€"78 television military drama, Baa Baa Black Sheep, starring

Robert Conrad, and also directed four episodes of the series. He

appeared in TV disaster movies such as Heatwave! (1974) and Crisis in

Mid-Air (1979).
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