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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 ...
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 ...
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 U.S. network television (behind CBS's Gunsmoke), and one of the longest-running, live-action American series.
Photo by NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images Roberts played the oldest Cartwright son, Adam, from 1959 to 1965. He chose to leave the show due to creative differences.
The ranch house was a single-story structure, although from the outside it appeared to have a second story. Little Joe's green corduroy jacket and Hoss's brown suede vest were displayed hanging on a rack. When the ranch opened in 1967, Pernell Roberts (Adam Cartwright) had long since departed the series. Consequently, he was not featured in ...
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).
By coincidence, Bobby Dan Davis Blocker, who played Hoss Cartwright on "Bonanza," also fought at Outpost Eerie in March 1952, although Gibbs does not remember him.
Bonanza is set around the Ponderosa Ranch near Virginia City, Nevada and chronicles the weekly adventures of the Cartwright family, consisting of Ben Cartwright and his three sons (each by a different wife), Adam, Eric , and Joseph ("Little Joe"). A regular character is their ranch cook, Hop Sing.