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Adams was a famed United States outdoorsman, animal collector/trainer and an owner/performer in his own menagerie and later a partner of P. T. Barnum's shows. A biography was published about Adams the year he died. He was the central character in Charles E. Sellier's 1972 novel The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. As a character in film and television, Adams has been played by:
- John Huston in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
- Dan Haggerty in The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1974, 1977–1978, 1982)
- Gene Edwards in The Legend of Grizzly Adams (1990)
- Tom Tayback in Grizzly Adams and the Legend of Dark Mountain (1999)
- Jeff Watson in P.T. Barnum (1999)
Read more about this topic: James "Grizzly" Adams
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