David Oliver Huffman (May 10, 1945 – February 27, 1985) was an American actor and producer.
[2][3] On the morning of February 27, 1985, 16-year-old Genaro Samano Villanueva was taken into San Diego police custody after attempting to steal a radio from a car near his home.
[4] Huffman, who was cast in the play Of Mice and Men at the Old Globe Theatre and was set to begin work on the television miniseries North and South the following week,[5] had visited the theatre shortly before noon to share cookies with the cast and crew[2] and was sitting in his van near the theatre playing his bagpipes when he saw Beamer confront Villanueva.
[4] His body was found less than an hour later in a Palm Canyon crevice by a group of children, although it was not positively identified until later that night.
The Canadian tourists whose motor home was burglarized saw Huffman's photo and death announcement in the newspaper and called police.