Before he played the bearded mountain man "Grizzly Adams," Dan Haggerty was a bare-chested body-builder.

Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon walk past him in Muscle Beach Party. (He was "Riff", the body-builder who jiggles his chest muscles and whistles "Shave and a Haircut, Six Cents.")

He also appeared in the commune scene in Easy Rider - and built the film's motorcycles!

Haggerty has the distinction of being the only person to have his star removed from Hollywood's "Walk of Fame." The selection committee made a mistake when awarding their star to 40s B-movie actor Don Haggerty.

Although Dan Haggerty did win a a 90-day prison sentence in 1984 for selling cocaine.

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