R.I.P. James MacArthur

COMMENTS (17)

• Book em Danno! RIP

  Comment by ROME — Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 1:37pm PDT  Reply to this post

• RIP Danno! Thanks for a great run!

  Comment by James — Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 1:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• MacArthur came from a generation when the kids of celebrities often went on to success without fucking up (are you listening, Charlie Sheen?) like Michael Douglas (Kirk’s son) and William Hopper (the son of Hedda Hopper). I miss that work ethic.

  Comment by anotherwgamember — Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 1:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Danno Loved him. He made the show along with Steve. Was a great cast all around. R.I.P.

  Comment by Lori — Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 1:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• 72 is too young for natural causes – so sad.

  Comment by Suellen Zimet — Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 2:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I saw him at a memorabilia show last March, and he did not appear to be well. He was very very frail looking.

  He is one of my Disney favorites. I still like Swiss Family Robinson.

  Comment by John O. — Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 2:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• RIP Mr. MacArthur.
  The one and only Danno.
  Very talented man.

  Comment by Steph — Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 4:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I am surprisingly upset by this – I’m 23 years old and just watched the pilot episode of the original last night (CBS has a good amount of episodes on their website from Season 1) – it was the first time I had seem any part of the original. Talk about timing. I’m a fan of the remake and can appreciate the legacy MacArthur passed down to a new generation. Rest in peace, Danno.

  Comment by Melissa — Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 5:40pm PDT  Reply to this post

• He was a real gentleman and a very kind man. He will be missed.

  Comment by Lynda — Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 5:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The whole, original, Five O gang is together again. Aloha Danno. You were greatly loved and will be greatly missed.

  Comment by Gayle Stewart — Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 6:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• MacArthur also had some memorable feature roles beyond his Disney work. Who can forget his nervous Ensign Ralston opposite Richard Widmark in The Bedford Incident. He was also quite memorable as the green lieutenant who mans up in Battle of the Bulge. RIP

  Comment by Steve Rubin — Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 6:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I had such a crush on him when he starred in Light in the Forest. I was just a young teenager then. He was great in all of his roles, movies and TV. Seemed like a classy guy, really a nice person. He was indispensible in the original Hawaii Five-O, a solid presence. I always would watch anything that he was in, he was just an appealing character, no matter what the role. I surely will miss him.

  Comment by Marlene — Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 7:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Damn… I grew up with the phrase “Book ‘em, Danno” – I think I watched the entire run of that show. I also remember him from “Swiss Family Robinson” and “Kidnapped”, and I even saw him in the 80′s revival of “The Front Page” on stage. He may have been ‘just’ the supporting actor on “Hawaii Five-0″, but his role (and acting) helped make the show.

  I must be getting old… too many of the actors of stage and screen that I grew up watching are dying off; and most of them will be very much missed, true professionals from an earlier age.

  Comment by David Masters — Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 7:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• When I repped his Helen Hayes at ICM, I had many dealings with James. He was always like his mom: kind, caring, insightful, principled and generous. This is such a shame.

  Comment by Jim Jermanok — Friday October 29, 2010 @ 5:57am PDT  Reply to this post

• The newly remade series is such a pale sad comparison to the original. Back in the day Hawaii Five-0 ran twelve years! I give this new run at it about 12 minutes.

  Comment by arundale — Friday October 29, 2010 @ 9:15am PDT  Reply to this post

• RIP James aka Danno! He was a fantastic actor.

  Comment by Dianne Carrington — Friday October 29, 2010 @ 5:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It might have been better to post a video clip from The Truth About Spring or The Swiss Family Robinson – with a topless Danno.
  Now that is a memory.

  Shame. I have heard he was a lovely man.

  Comment by Kathleen — Saturday October 30, 2010 @ 10:44pm PDT  Reply to this post