Birthday
1928/12/10
Day of death
1972/05/13 (43 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
DeKalb, Bowie County, Texas, U.S
Also know as
Bobby Dan Davis Blocker
Bobby Dan Davis Blocker (December 10, 1928 – May 13, 1972) was an American television actor and Korean War veteran, who played Hoss Cartwright in the long-running NBC Western television series Bonanza.
(1963) Come Blow Your Horn
as Eckman
(1968) Lady in Cement
as Waldo Gronsky
(1968) The Dean Martin Christmas Show
as Self (uncredited)
(1959) The Young Captives
as Oil Field Roughneck
(1965) Johnny Appleseed
as Narrator
(1969) The Jack Benny Birthday Special
as Self
(1958) Natchez
as ---
(1970) The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
as Charley
(1957) Outer Space Jitters
as Zombie
(1957) Gunsight Ridge
as Bartender (uncredited)
(1962) The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
as Self
(1968) Something for a Lonely Man
as John Killibrew
(1955) Hook a Crook
as Gorilla (uncredited)
(1968) Rowan & Martin at the Movies
as Self
(1966) Bonanza: Ride the Wind
as Eric 'Hoss' Cartwright
(1957) The Girl in Black Stockings
as Mike, the Bartender
(1979) A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
as Hoss (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1958) Jefferson Drum
as Craig
(1957) The Restless Gun
as John 'El Bruto'
(1957) Sugarfoot
as Bosch
(1959) Bonanza
as Hoss Cartwright
(1951) The Red Skelton Show
as Little Willie
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Lieutenant
(1957) Maverick
as Hognose M. Hughes
(1958) Cimarron City
as Tiny Budinger
(1957) The Walter Winchell File
as Payload John
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(1955) Cheyenne
as Deputy Sam
(1971) V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
(1948) BAMBI Awards
as Self (archive footage)
(1970) Three Times Nine
as Self
(1956) Playhouse 90
as George
(1957) The Restless Gun
as Ike Burnett
(1955) Cheyenne
as Pete
(1958) The Rifleman
as Pete Snipe