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Stage and screen actor James MacArthur, who played in the original version of the television series “Hawaii Five-O”, died Thursday at age s 72.MacArthur agent, Richard Lewis, said the actor died in Florida from “natural causes” but not a direct cause was specified.

In a career spanning more than four decades, MacArthur was best known for his role as Detective Danny “Danno” Williams “Hawaii Five-O”, which aired from 1968 to 1980. Episodes often ended with the detective Steve McGarrett The main character, launching what has become a phrase capture pop culture. “Book ‘em Danno”

Jack Lord, who played McGarr, died 1998.MacArthur leave the role of henchman McGarr in 1979, one year before the last season of the show. “Honestly, I was bored,” he explained on his website. “The stories have become boring and predictable challenge presented less and less for me as an actor.”

“Hawaii Five-O”, the crime is one of the longest in the history of television and 278 episodes, shot on location in Hawaii. It was the first Hawaii-based national television series.The drama CBS has renewed the new cast of this season. Stylized as the “Hawaii Five-0″, stars Scott Caan as Damage, Alex O’Laughlin as McGarret and Daniel Dae Kim Chin Ho Kelly.

MacArthur, born December 8, 1937, seemed destined to become an actor. He was the adopted son of the playwright Charles MacArthur and actress Helen Hayes Award winner often referred to as “the first lady of American theater.” Silent film star Lillian Gish was his godmother. “They taught me a lot about the theater in my life with them,” he said in an interview with his parents in 1957 in Teen Life. “I never pushed in any direction. Any major decision was always mine to make.”

James MacArthur made his stage debut at age 8 in a summer stock production of “The Corn is Green.” His role has been erupting in 1957 “Climax!” production of television series “The Young stranger,” where he played the 17 year old son of a film executive who has an altercation with the law.

It came the same year at Harvard, but dropped its second year to pursue a acting career.As a young actor, MacArthur appeared in Walt Disney film “Kidnapped”,”The Third Man on the Mountain ‘ ‘Swiss Family Robinson “and” Light in the Forest. ”

He also had roles in “The interns,” Spencer Mountain, “”Battle of the Bulge” and “Hang ‘Em High” and guest roles numerous television series as “Gunsmoke.” He has appeared in Many parts, including the role of Hildy Johnson in a 1981 production of “The Front Page” which was co-written by his father in the 1920 Stanford Community Theatre in Palo Alto, California.

His career and live as he won the 1961 Prize of the Theatre World Award for Best Actress for her new performance in “Invitation to a March.” MacArthur said that one of his favorite “Hawaii Five-O” episode was a segment from 1975 called “retreat in Sunny Hawaii Forever” because it marked one of the few times he has worked at the screen with his mother. Danno Hayes played Aunt Clara, who visit Hawaii and help detectives solve murders.

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