Bobby Dan Davis Blocker was an American television actor and Korean War veteran, who played Hoss Cartwright in the NBC Western television series Bonanza.
Blocker on the set of Bonanza as Hoss Cartwright
Abandoned grocery store formerly run by Blocker's parents in downtown O'Donnell, Texas, 2010
Vaughn Monroe, Susie Scott, and Dan Blocker dance in Bonanza, 1962
Dan Blocker in Bonanza, 1966
Bonanza is an American Western television series that ran on NBC from September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 431 episodes, Bonanza is NBC's longest-running Western, the second-longest-running Western series on U.S. network television, and one of the longest-running, live-action American series. The show continues to air in syndication. The show is set in the 1860s and centers on the wealthy Cartwright family, who live in the vicinity of Virginia City, Nevada, bordering Lake Tahoe. The series initially starred Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon and later featured Guy Williams, David Canary, Mitch Vogel and Tim Matheson. The show is known for presenting pressing moral dilemmas.
Bonanza
Ponderosa tour postcard – visitors tour the replica ranchhouse and its big living room with stone fireplace overlooking the east shore of Lake Tahoe, in Incline Village, Nevada where several rebuilt ranch buildings were used as a set for outside filming.
Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Lorne Greene and Michael Landon (1961)
Front to back: Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker and Lorne Greene
