VENTURA, Calif. - Dana Elcar, the round-faced, balding actor whose real-life struggle with blindness was written into his role on the TV adventure series "MacGyver," has died. He was 77. He died Monday of complications from pneumonia at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, his family said. "MacGyver" ran on ABC from 1985 to 1992. Elcar played the best friend and boss of the crime-fighting title character, played by Richard Dean Anderson. "At a time when I had very little business being called an actor, he made things so easy for me," Anderson said. "It was a learning experience that was...
