Charles Sellier, who created the book and television series The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, died January 31, 2011, at his home in Idaho. He was 67.

According to news reports, Sellier died unexpectedly; a cause was not specified.

Sellier produced dozens of family-targeted film and television projects, often with religious themes. They included In Search of Noah’s Ark and Mark Twain’s America.

In all, he produced—and often wrote and directed-more than 30 films and more than 200 television shows.

He was best known for creating Grizzly Adams, a fictional book and television character who flees bounty hunters and rescues a bear cub named Ben that grows into a companion.

Dan Haggerty played the hirsute hero in the NBC series, which ran from 1977-78.

He was born Charles Edward Sellier, Jr., in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on November 9, 1943. His father was a shipping clerk who worked on the Gulf Coast.

He is survived by his wife and son.