Hawaii Five-O star James MacArthur dies at 72
By Daily Mail Reporter
James MacArthur, the star of 1970's TV show Hawaii Five-0, died today at age 72.
MacArthur had a long and prolific career in stage, film and television, and played Danny 'Danno' Williams on Hawaii Five-0.
He also starred in films such as Swiss Family Robinson, Battle of the Bulge, Kidnapped, The Bedford Incident, and Hang 'Em High.
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2010/10/1170.jpg RIP: James MacArthur has died at the age of 72. He is pictured here holding a photo from the late 1940s of himself as a child with his mother and Bob Hope
Born in Los Angeles, California, MacArthur was adopted as an infant by Charles MacArthur and Helen Hayes.
He grew up in Nyack, New York, and attended Allen-Stevenson School in New York, and later at The Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he played basketball, football, and baseball.
MacArthur was a popular and athletic student at Solebury - during his last year at the school he played guard on the football team and captained the basketball team.
He was also president of his class, the student government, and the Drama Club; he rewrote the school's constitution and edited the school paper, The Scribe, and started acting early on by playing Scrooge in a local presentation of A Christmas Carol.
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2010/10/1171.jpg Book 'em, Danno! Young MacArthur on the set of Hawaii Five-0 during the peak of the show's popularity in the 1970s
It was around this time that MacArthur started seeing fellow student, Joyce Bulifant. The couple were married in November 1958 but divorced nine years later.
Luckily for the actor, he had a solid social and family circle of literary and theatrical talent.
His godmother was legendary silent film actress Lillian Gish, and family friends included Ben Hecht, Harpo Marx, Robert Benchley, Beatrice Lillie, John Barrymore, and John Steinbeck.
He starred on Hawaii Five-0 for 11 years in total, from the first episode of it's 12-year run, leaving the show at the end of the eleventh season.
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New generation: Scott Caan [second from left] plays the modern day Danno in the remake of the cult classic
MacArthur then returned to his first love of theatre, appearing in The Lunch Hour with Cybill Shepherd.
The actor has guest starred on many TV shows including The Love Boat, Murder, She Wrote, The Adventures of Superboy, Vegas, Fantasy Island, Bonanza, Tarzan, Gunsmoke, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Climax!.
His last role was in the 1998 TV movie Storm Chasers: Revenge of the Twister.
McArthur was married to his second wife, Helen Beth for over 25 years, and they have four children and seven grandchildren.
Memorial services will be held in Nyack, New York; Palm Desert, Calif; and Honolulu, Hawaii.
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