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	Dan Blocker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dan Blocker (December 10, 1928 – May 13, 1972) was an American actor.
		Blocker was drafted and served in the Korean War; he later married Dolphia Parker, whom he had met while a student at Sul Ross State, and all of their four children's names began with a 'D'.
		Blocker earned a Master's degree and worked at a variety of jobs to support his family including teaching in a high school, some acting and performance work in rodeos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dan_Blocker (305 words)

	Dan Blocker -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dan Blocker (December 10, 1928 – May 13, 1972) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A theatrical performer) actor and advocate for (Click link for more info and facts about social justice) social justice.
		Blocker earned a (Click link for more info and facts about Master's degree) Master's degree and worked at a variety of jobs to support his family including teaching in a high school, some acting and performance work in (An exhibition of cowboy skills) rodeos.
		Dan Blocker died suddenly following routine gall bladder surgery in (A city in southern California; motion picture capital of the world; most populous city of California and second largest in the United States) Los Angeles in 1972.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/dan_blocker.htm (371 words)

	Hollywood Cowboys An exhibit at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum--Dan Blocker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dan Blocker started college in Texas as an athletics major, but switched his major to drama after being bitten by the acting bug during a stage production.
		Blocker's character was one of the most popular on the show, and it gave the actor a chance to do comedy, drama and play a sensitive character, a role which was unusual for a man who stood 6'4" tall and weighed almost 300 pounds.
		Dan Blocker played the role of Hoss until his death in the spring of 1972.
	hoover.archives.gov /exhibits/HollywoodCowboys/television/DanBlocker.html (239 words)

	Egobrowser: Dan Blocker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dan Blocker had: There was a boat that was being built for him to use on the Thames in England, and as soon as possible after his gall.
		Dan Blocker is a narrow beach with limited parking and it is, therefore, not expected that visitorship will increase with the completion of this project.
		Dan Blocker had planned to return once again to Switzerland and England after his surgery, for the remainder of the hiatus, but sadly died on May 13, 1972.
	blog.outer-court.com /egobrowser/Dan-Blocker.html (198 words)

	Dan Blocker as Hoss Cartwright in Bonanza
		Dan Blocker came into the world on December 10, 1929 the only son of Shack and Mary Blocker.
		Dortort cast Blocker as the lovable Hoss Cartwright, the middle son of Ben Cartwright.
		The death of Dan Blocker was a blow from which Bonanza could not recover.
	bonanza1.com /hoss/hoss1.html (937 words)

	Dan Blocker and Hoss Cartwright.
		Blocker was born in DeKalb in December 1928, but the physician who assisted in the process did not issue a birth certificate until March 1929, and it recorded his name as Bobby Don Blocker.
		Blocker weighed fourteen pounds at birth, and when he became a celebrity, it was reported that he was the largest infant ever delivered in Bowie County.
		Blocker died from complications resulting from surgery in 1972, and was buried in the Woodmen Cemetery in DeKalb.
	www.texasescapes.com /AllThingsHistorical/Hoss-Cartwright-Dan-Blocker-1203AM.htm (439 words)

	Dan Blocker
		Dan was 14lbs at birth,largest baby born in Bowie County.
		Dan was survived by his wife and 4 children.
		Dan Blocker was given a 1965 Chevy Chevelle SS 396 (one of only 201 built) as an advertisement.
	www.tv.com /dan-blocker/person/9917/summary.html (147 words)

	Dan Blocker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dan Blocker (December 10, 1928 – May 13, 1972) was an American actor.
		Dan, in DeKalb, Texas, the son of Ora Shack and Mary (Davis) Blocker, passed away when he had gall bladder surgery.
		By all accounts he is remembered from his school days for his size (6'3", 300 pounds/1.91 m, 136 kg) (IMDb and some other sites state his height as 6'4"/1.93 m) and as being good-natured.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Dan_Blocker (359 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: BLOCKER, DAN
		Dan Blocker, television actor, was born on December 10, 1928, in DeKalb, Texas, the son of Ora Shack and Mary (Davis) Blocker.
		Blocker taught school in Sonora, Texas, and Carlsbad, New Mexico, before moving to California in 1956 to work on a Ph.D. degree at the University of California at Los Angeles.
		Blocker was an enormously popular actor and successful businessman; he was co-owner of a nationwide chain of steak houses called Bonanza.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/fbl26.html (486 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Actors (D-Dan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While studying sociology at Carleton University he started writing comedy skeyches and left university to go to Toronto where he performed with the Second City improvization comedy troupe where he was seen by John Belushi who introduced him to television.
		Dan Dailey (Daniel James Dailey) was an American actor and film director.
		Dan Daily was an American actor and dancer.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /CYD.HTM (254 words)

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	Dan Blocker's head, O'Donnell, Texas
		Dan's other claim to fame is that he was the largest baby ever born in Bowie County (14 lbs.), in the town of DeKalb in 1928.
		Coincidentally, sculptor Goodacre was memorialized in Lubbock on the same day in 1997 as Dan Blocker, when they were added to the West Texas Walk of Fame around the Buddy Holly statue.
		Dan Blocker's grave is in a cemetery in DeKalb.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/TXODOblocker.html (242 words)

	Bonanza Cast Biographies: Dan Blocker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dan Blocker was Hoss Cartwright, the middle son.
		Sadly, Dan Blocker died suddenly at the age of 43, from a lung clot, in May of 1972.
		Dan's favorite episodes were "Feet Of Clay", "Any Friend Of Walter's", "Walter and the Outlaws", "Hoss and the Leprechauns", and "The Wish".
	ponderosascenery.homestead.com /hoss.html (201 words)

	Las Vegas SUN:
		The script was written by Michael Landon for Dan Blocker's Hoss, but Blocker died months earlier and Landon's Little Joe got hitched instead.
		Dan Blocker: * Blocker was born in Bowie County, Texas.
		In fact, he was a Shakespearean scholar, taught sixth grade, was a good debater and was once touted as a possible political candidate.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/1999/sep/10/509287856.html (1384 words)

	Bonanza Library: Dan Blocker - They Remember Dan Blocker - August 1971
		Blocker's mother recalls a time when her husband decided to go a few rounds with his son.
		That Blocker has divorced himself from the environs of his childhood is nothing more than the idea of some magazine writer who arrived in town sometime back with a predetermined plan of attack.
		That Blocker's stock has risen in his home town only since the long-enduring 'Bonanza' series found its way into the ratings for good is another falsehood.
	ponderosascenery.homestead.com /files/library/tvarticle17.html (1881 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dan Blocker
		Western fiction is a genre of literature that is typically set in any of the American states west of the Mississippi River and between the years of approximately 1860 and 1900.
		A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration.
		Steer roping Rodeo is a traditional folk North American sport with influences from the history of Mexican vaqueros (cowboys) and American cowboys.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dan-Blocker (608 words)

	Dan Blocker to Point Dume & Back - 09/12/04
		At Dan Blocker Beach this morning, there were five paddlers at the appointed spot.
		They were Patrick Martin, Skip Muns, Paul Jonason, Peter O'Sullivan, and me. Peter commented that he had seen Lee Shurie driving the other direction, but a walk up to the PCH did not find him.
		It was nice to see the entire group of seven staying together as a tight knit pod.
	www.ckf.org /Reports/2004/04-09-12-DanBlocker.htm (1503 words)

	Bonanza: Cartwrights of the Ponderosa
		Dan Blocker (Hoss) died of a blood clot when he was only forty-two in the last season of Bonanza, and Little Joe (Michael Landon) went to make great family shows like Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven, which is one of my favorites from the eighties.
		Dan Blocker’s sudden death in 1972 spelled the end for Bonanza.
		The loss of the beloved Hoss was a devastating blow to both the cast and the show’s fans.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Highrise/8158/bonanza.htm (350 words)

	Bonanza
		Bonanza was an American western/cowboy television program starring Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Pernell Roberts, and Victor Sen Yung.
		It was unique in that it was the first regularly broadcast television program to be taped in color.
		In 1972, after the sudden death of Dan Blocker, the show was moved to Tuesday nights.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/bonanza.html (368 words)

	The Austin Chronicle: Columns: Day Trips
		Dan Blocker of O'Donnell, Texas, was Hoss Cartwright.
		The only son of Shack and Mary Blocker, Bobby Dan, as he was known as a child, was born in 1928 in the Northeast Texas town of DeKalb.
		Blocker went into the hospital for gall bladder surgery, developed a blood clot in his lung, and died.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2005-03-25/cols_daytrips.html (825 words)

	Dan Blocker to Pt Dume - 11/23/03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We launched and headed back to Dan Blocker in great blue bird weather.
		At Dan Blocker we did some rolling and bracing practice, landed, cleaned up and most of us wound up at the Malibu Deli for good food and more good scenery.
		Dan Blocker Beach is the same as Corral Canyon.
	www.ckf.org /Reports/2003/03-11-23-DanBlocker-to-PtDume.htm (585 words)

	Dan Blocker, AKA Hoss Cartwright
		Dan Blocker's grave in the Woodsmen Cemetery, near downtown DeKalb.
		My dad and Dan met a number of years later when Dan was in Pittsburgh on a promotional tour for Bonanza.
		I went to Sul Ross College and was in many classes, and out of class, with Dan and he was a very dear friend and beer drinking buddy of mine.
	www.texasescapes.com /TexasPersonalities/HossCartright.htm (251 words)

	Department Information
		The rustic beauty of Dan Blocker Beach in Malibu has only been known to a few.
		A memorial plaque to Dan Blocker, noted for his role as Hoss Cartwright on the television show "Bonanza", will also be erected.
		Blocker died, his two close friends donated the land to the State in his memory.
	beaches.co.la.ca.us /bandh/deptinfo/capitalprojects.htm (838 words)

	Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online: Texas Day By Day - December 10, 1928
		On this day in 1928, the future television star Dan Blocker was born in DeKalb, Texas.
		Dan attended Texas Military Institute in San Antonio and Hardin-Simmons University before entering Sul Ross State Teachers College in Alpine in 1947.
		A monument in Blocker's memory stands in a park in downtown O'Donnell, across the street from a museum which displays memorabilia from his career.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /daybyday/12-10-004.html (315 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Ponderosa Party Time [Import] [Box set] [Compilation] [Soundtrack] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The material here isn't far removed from the sort of records that Gene Autry used to make for his movies, except that none of these guys is as good a singer as Autry.
		Dan Blocker's 1963 album Our Heritage, recorded with singer/actor John Mitchum, fills out Disc Four.
		This was a story-and-song celebration of American history, with the folksy, pleasing Blocker telling the stories and Mitchum singing.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000AQ74 (576 words)

	Bonanza Library: Carrying On Without Dan Blocker - October 1972
		He tried to write about his memories of the man who played his older brother for so many years but found that his thoughts were too intensely personal to put on paper.
		Whatever happens, there will be 14 years of 'Bonanza' on film; 14 years of pioneeering in the use of color television, of breaking important new ground in getting the real medium outside into real locations and preserving an image of the disappearing American West.
		And for 13 of those years there is the massive, vital presence of a man named Dan Blocker--which is far more immortality than most of us can hope for on this earth.
	ponderosascenery.homestead.com /files/library/tvarticle19.html (1708 words)

	Bonanza: Dan Blocker
		At the time of his birth, Dan Blocker was reported to be the largest baby born to Bowie County, Texas.
		As with his each of his cast mates, Blocker was heard on two Bonanza cast albums, and also had a solo album of his own of pop tunes.
		Sadly, Blocker died of a blood clot to the brain on May 13, 1972.
	www.tvland.com /shows/bonanza/actor3.jhtml (143 words)

	MovieWeb Search Results: Dan Blocker
		Dan Blocker, Pernell Roberts, Lorne Greene, Michael Landon
		Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Everett Sloane, Tom Reese, Michael Landon, Pernell Roberts
		Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon, Victor Sen Yung, Stella Stevens
	movieweb.com /movies/search.php?name=Dan+Blocker (365 words)

	Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials
		Most viewers of “Bonanza” did not realize that Hoss Cartwright's character was really named Eric Cartwright (Hoss being a nickname because he "had the stamina of a horse." During the successful run of “Bonanza,” he started the Bonanza Steak House restaurant chain.
		Two of his children - David and Dan, followed his path in Hollywood (Dan is a producer and Dirk is an actor).
		There is a museum dedicated to Dan Blocker in O'Donnell, Texas (in Lynn County, about 40 miles due south of Lubbock, Texas).
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=101 (230 words)

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