I remember growing up watching the original Hawaii Five O and waiting for Jack Lord to say, “Book’em Danno!”
It was the only way I knew the show was over because I was too young to follow the complex plots.
Today, I’m a super huge fan of the New Hawaii Five O and it’s nice to see Scott Caan carrying in the legacy James MacArthur started,
The New York Daily News reports that James MacArthur, who played Detective Daniel "Danno" Williams for almost all of the original television series "Hawaii Five-O" and was best known for a line he never spoke, died Thursday in Florida of "natural causes."
No further details were released. He was 72.
MacArthur, adopted son of the famous actress Helen Hayes and her playwright husband Charles MacArthur, grew up among screen and literary stars.
Regular guests at the MacArthur home in Nyack included members of the Marx Brothers and the Algonquin Round Table, and his godmother was Lillian Gish.
He dropped out of Harvard in his sophomore year to pursue acting and he appeared in hundreds of movie, television and regional stage roles over the years.
He starred in one play on Broadway, opposite Jane Fonda for "Invitation to a March" in 1960.
He was best known, however, for "Book 'em, Danno," the signature line of his "Hawaii Five-O" partner Steve McGarret, played by Jack Lord.
That satisfying directive often closed "Hawaii Five-O" episodes, just before the immortal theme song kicked in.
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R.I.P Danno!
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