Tough-Guy Actor Jack Lord Of `Hawaii Five-0' Dies At 77

HONOLULU - Jack Lord, the no-nonsense "Hawaii Five-0" detective whose "Book 'em, Danno!" ended most episodes of TV's longest-running crime show, died of heart failure at age 77.

Mr. Lord died last evening at his Honolulu home with his wife, Marie, at his side.

Mr. Lord portrayed Steve McGarrett, gruff head of a fictitious Hawaii police force known as Five-0, for 12 years. It ended in 1980 when McGarrett busted his bitter enemy, crime boss Wo Fat.

Actor James MacArthur played his ubiquitous sidekick, Danny "Danno" Williams. Many of the 284 episodes ended with McGarrett collaring the criminals and saying to Williams, "Book 'em, Danno!"

"Hawaii Five-0" initially faced local opposition because of its depiction of crime in paradise. But its combination of adventure in the natural beauty of Hawaii proved popular. The CBS series was seen in 80 countries with a weekly audience estimated at more than 300 million.

Mr. Lord produced and sometimes directed "Five-0."

Mr. Lord was born John Joseph Patrick Ryan in New York City to a steamship-company executive. He learned to ride horses on his mother's fruit farm in the Hudson River Valley, and later put the skill to use when he starred in "Stoney Burke," a 1962-63 ABC series about a rodeo cowboy. He worked at sea on freighters during his high-school summers.

He majored in his first love, art, at New York University, where he had a football scholarship. His artwork is in a number of

permanent collections, including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.