http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/0....ap/index.html
Kevin Hagen, veteran of Westerns, was 77
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005; Posted: 3:38 p.m. EDT (19:38 GMT)
GRANTS PASS, Oregon (AP) -- Veteran television character actor Kevin Hagen, who left behind a string of Western bad guy roles to become the kindly Doc Baker in "Little House on the Prairie," died Saturday. He was 77.
Hagen died at his home a year after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer, said his wife, Jan.
Hagen's first movie part was in the 1958 Disney film "The Light in the Forest," but he credited his role in the 1965 film "Shenandoah" with starting him on a long trail of TV Western heavies.
Hagen had guest-starring roles on "Gunsmoke," "Rawhide" and "Cheyenne," and won his first regular role in the 1958 series, "Yancy Derringer," in which he played a city administrator of post-Civil War New Orleans.
He was best known for his portrayal of Dr. Hiram Baker in "Little House on the Prairie," which ran from 1974 to 1983.
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this saddens me greatly......I was, actually still am, a HUGE Little House fan....it comes on the Hallmark channel 4 times a day during the week, so when Im home Im always watching it. Its one of those shows that if I flip thru and its on I watch, I dont care if its an episode I've seen a hundred times. (go ahead and make fun of me I dont mind
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I was actually watching yesterday wondering what ever happened to him.
He's now with Mr. Edwards (Victor French) and Pa (Michael Landon).
RIP "Doc"