James Stacy Benefit March 24th
1974. Clint with wife Maggie and unidentified friend.
Stacy is perhaps best remembered
as a star of the western series Lancer, along with Andrew Duggan, Wayne
Maunder, and Paul Brinegar. Lancer aired on CBS from 1968 to 1970. Stacy played
the character "Johnny Madrid Lancer", a former gunslinger, the son of
Duggan's character, Murdoch Lancer. Stacy also acted in several motion pictures
from the 1950s through the 1970s, including a minor part in the musical South
Pacific. On September 27th, 1973, Stacy was taking girlfriend Claire Cox for a
ride on his motorcycle in the Hollywood Hills when a drunken driver struck
them. She died and Stacy lost his left arm and leg. Stacy's ex-wife, Actress
and singer Connie Stevens, organized a 1974 Celebrity gala to raise money for
his expenses. The gala, whose attendees included Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood
and Barbra Streisand, raised $118,000 for his expenses. In 1976, he won a $1.9
million lawsuit against the bar that had served the drunk driver.
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