{"id":1367,"date":"2008-06-30T15:04:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T23:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2010-03-04T14:55:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:55:28","slug":"beloved-stargate-actor-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/beloved-stargate-actor-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Actor Don S. Davis Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"image-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Don S. Davis as General Hammond in Continuum\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/davis-as-hammond.jpg\" alt=\"Don S. Davis as General Hammond in Continuum\" width=\"230\" align=\"left\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Don S. Davis passed away yesterday, June 29, 2008, of a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>Davis was beloved by many Stargate fans for his many years playing <a href=\"\/wiki\/George_Hammond\">George Hammond<\/a> on <em>Stargate SG-1<\/em> and <em>Stargate Atlantis<\/em>.  Davis first appeared as Major General Hammond in the <em>SG-1<\/em> pilot &#8220;Children of the Gods&#8221;.  He continued playing the no-nonsense-with-a-heart-of-gold general regularly through Season Seven, although he made guest appearances up through Season Nine&#8217;s &#8220;The Fourth Horsemen Part 1 &amp; 2&#8221;.   He also provided the voice for the Hammond puppet in Season Ten&#8217;s special  &#8220;200&#8221;th episode, and will appear in the forthcoming <a href=\"\/wiki\/Stargate:_Continuum\"><em>Stargate: Continuum<\/em><\/a> movie.<\/p>\n<p>Davis was born August 4, 1942.  As Davis himself put it, he was: &#8220;born and raised in the Missouri Ozarks in Aurora, Missouri&#8230;.a beautiful area with picturesque towns and farms set among rolling hills, which are crisscrossed by many rivers and contain a large number of magnificent lakes.&#8221;  After graduating from Southwest Missouri State College with a Bachelor of Science in theater and art, Davis proudly served in the United States Army, eventually reaching the rank of captain.  After his military service, he received a masters degree, and later a doctorate in theater, teaching for many years before acting full time on film beginning in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Davis was also an accomplished artist.  Some of his work in sculpture, paintings, drawings, and set design can be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/donsdavisart.com\">donsdavisart.com<\/a>.  According to the official statement, a family memorial will take place in a few weeks scattering Davis&#8217;s ashes into the ocean.  Any donations may be made to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanheartassociation.com\/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200000\">American Heart Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Solutions&#8217;s deepest condolences go to Don Davis&#8217;s wife Ruby, his family, friends and colleagues, especially his fellow cast and crew mates in the &#8220;Stargate family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Article written by Solutions editor &#8220;Aurora Novarum&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Please leave your comments below, or visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/sg1_solutions\/83812.html\">LiveJournal Community<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/forum\/index.php?topic=473.0\">On-Site Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don S. Davis passed away yesterday, June 29, 2008, of a heart attack. Davis was beloved by many Stargate fans for his many years playing George Hammond on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. Davis first appeared as Major General Hammond in the SG-1 pilot &#8220;Children of the Gods&#8221;. He continued playing the no-nonsense-with-a-heart-of-gold general regularly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/beloved-stargate-actor-dies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beloved Actor Don S. Davis Dies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-don-s-davis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7411,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/7411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}