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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 ...
Bobby Dan Davis Blocker (December 10, 1928 [1] – May 13, 1972) was an American television actor and Korean War veteran, who played Hoss Cartwright in the NBC Western television series Bonanza. Biography
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 ...
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).
Originally written as a Bible-quoting codger who vowed to shoot anyone who came on his land, Ben Cartwright was a tyrant of a father. [5] Greene wanted a more relatable character with a sense of humor and a healthy relationship with his sons. [4] Dortort revised the character to be a warmer father, and focused more on family and personal ...
The series was developed and produced by David Dortort. Season nine starred Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, and Michael Landon. The season consisted of 34 episodes of a series total 431 hour-long episodes, the entirety of which was produced in colour. [2] Season nine was aired on Sundays at 9:00 p.m.
See Angela Cartwright through the years: As she hit her teenage years, Angela continued working steadily. She most famously played Penny Robinson on "Lost In Space." But after tying the knot in ...