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Dan Blocker as Hoss Cartwright. The gentle middle son Eric is almost always referred to as Hoss. [7] The nickname was used as a nod to the character's ample girth, [8] an endearing term for "big and friendly", used by his Swedish mother Inger (and Uncle Gunnar). [9] In the Bonanza flashback, [10] his mother names him Eric after her father. To ...
Blocker with his four children, 1960s Hoss Cartwright and Dan Blocker plaque in O'Donnell, Texas, 1973 Blocker is listed on the West Texas Walk of Fame in Lubbock. Originally from Bowie County, Texas, Blocker arrived in Los Angeles in 1958 planning to do post-grad work at UCLA but began getting acting roles. Previously, while attending Sul Ross ...
Bonanza is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 432 episodes, Bonanza is NBC's longest-running Western, the second-longest-running Western series on American network television (behind CBS's Gunsmoke), and one of the longest-running, live-action American series.
Roberts played the oldest Cartwright son, Adam, from 1959 to 1965. He chose to leave the show due to creative differences. Roberts told the Washington Post, "I was in the series for six years. I ...
The fourth season of the American Western television series Bonanza premiered on NBC on September 23, 1962, with the final episode airing May 26, 1963. [1] The series was developed and produced by David Dortort, and season four starred Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, and Michael Landon.
Bonanza is set around the Ponderosa Ranch near Virginia City, Nevada and chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, consisting of Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) and his three sons (each by a different wife), Adam (Pernell Roberts), Eric "Hoss" (Dan Blocker), and Joseph (Michael Landon).
“The Night Before Christmas” originally identified eight reindeer that lead Santa Claus’ sleigh every holiday. And while the poem gendered the reindeer as males, biology tells us that couldn ...
Miss Christmas (2017) Who’s in it: Brooke D'Orsay, Marc Blucas. Rating: TV-G. Everyone can count on Holly Khun, AKA "Miss Christmas," to find the perfect tree for Chicago's annual Radcliffe Tree ...