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Dana Elcar: SPTC founder, noted character actor, director passes away
June 10, 2005
ByPeggy Kelly
Santa Paula News
By Peggy Kelly Santa Paula TimesDana Elcar’s lifelong love of the performing arts resulted in the acclaimed Santa Paula Theater Center, where the actor/director worked with professionals and amateurs alike often mastering works considered far beyond community playhouse abilities.
Elcar passed away on Monday, June 6 at Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, of complications from pneumonia.Dana, a resident of Santa Paula since the mid-1980s, was 77 years old.Born Ibson Dana Elcar to Danish immigrants on the family farm in Ferndale, Michigan on October 10, 1927, as a child Dana and his siblings acted out radio plays in the barn.“You’ve heard the saying that some people are born with acting in their blood?” he told a reporter in the 1990s.
“It’s true, all true.”Dana began acting in high school and founded the Ann Arbor Theater while attending the University