This is surprisingly good. Dan Blocker surprised me with his intelligence and sophistication. Good for him. He speaks the truth. He knew more about the value of China than people do now. And, he educated his kids in Switzerland. Wow, excellent. Good man.
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan ! I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?) Thanks, " Beauty is as Beauty Does" the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked int Hank's office by mistake! Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine" "God Gave Them One More Day" I Ain't no Middleman" FredGold& LyndaFaye "LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
funny you should say that, such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character " that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight..Sounds like a song comin in, yes ? Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan ! I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?) Thanks, " Beauty is as Beauty Does" the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked int Hank's office by mistake! Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine" "God Gave Them One More Day" I Ain't no Middleman" FredGold& LyndaFaye "LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
@@douglascarlson9006 43, from a pulmonary embolism after surgery. They actually wrote his death into the show, that he died saving someones life. Which was interesting because it was dangerous life working a ranch. The show failed after him.
He was a very talented actor and a very intelligent man. I just loved him as “Hoss” on Bonanza, and was heartbroken as a child to learn of his passing on the show. My Dad and I always watched the Westerns on TV when I was growing up. Great and precious memories. 💙
@@20alphabet Maybe he didn't want to PUBLICALLY DISPLAY his knowledge of the CCP? funny you should say that, such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character " that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight..Sounds like a song comin in, yes ? Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan ! I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?) Thanks, " Beauty is as Beauty Does" the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked int Hank's office by mistake! Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine" "God Gave Them One More Day" I Ain't no Middleman" FredGold& LyndaFaye "LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
I agree completely. He spoke with respect and like he was afraid he was saying something offensive. People now days don't care if they come across as rude or vulgar.
what do you mean 'common Sense'? His whole explanation of why the show would go 15 years was nonsensical...he was just a pompous actor who thought he was the smartest guy in the room.
He was well-read, educated, and seemed to have a real love of life. I wish there were more like him today. Almost every famous person today seems to be either hyper-PC, or on the other "side". People used to have more freedom of opinion.
@@manofiske3318 In the 70s if you didn't see the interview while it was aired on television, if you had access to the station it was played on at the time it was aired. If not you never saw it and it was gone and forgotten. Now we can all see it experience it, and discuss it anytime and anywhere .
Hoss was my favorite character from Bonanza, great actor. This was prophetic. HIs last episode was Season 13 Episode 26, aired April 2 1972, He passed away in May 13, 1972, the show ended after the following 14th year. He really was the heart and soul of that show. HIs intelligence was often hidden underneath the loveable Hoss's surface, but it always came out in these interviews. He was a decorated combat veteran of the Korean war, serving as an infantry sergeant, Most people think or assume he died of a heart attack. He had gallbladder surgery, which I believe was deemed successful, went home but developed a blood clot in his lung, which caused his death. Very sad end to a wonderful life.
I enjoyed this interview with him decades after he passed away. I always enjoyed Dan as Hoss. His son looks and talks just like him brings back wonderful memories and many laughs during the 13 Seasons he was on Bonanza. R i p oh, return if possible is another meeting I learned the last year during 2020. Betty Gordon, Ames, Iowa
Thank you for the info. I didn't know he was a Korean war veteran. I sort of remember watching Bonanza growing up and remember the Cartwright's. I only learned that Dan Blocker died at such a young age just recently. It's so sad because things in his life seemed to be going good and a year or so later he would die from complications from surgery. It goes to show you never know when you're last day will be.
@@easycampfireguitarlessons EXTREMELY sad for a man who's "acting life" really had just begun ...I wondered if that COLLEGE DEGREE was WORK -when a man has a family to support AND a full-time-JOB ANYWHERE... IT'S LOTS OF STRESS. Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ? I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ? such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character " that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?) Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan ! I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?) Thanks, " Beauty is as Beauty Does" the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into Hank's office by mistake! Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine" "God Gave Them One More Day" I Ain't no Middleman" FredGold& LyndaFaye "LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ? I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ? such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character " that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?) Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan ! I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?) Thanks, " Beauty is as Beauty Does" the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into Hank's office by mistake! Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine" "God Gave Them One More Day" I Ain't no Middleman" FredGold& LyndaFaye "LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
@@lyndafaye6748 and too think I just wasted my time listening to a lot of nonsense. I mean time is precious and I'll never get that time back. I can't express how confusing you were sounding. I mean you started on the great Dan Blocker and found yourself talking about a fake administration. well, I've wasted even more time trying too explain how much time I wasted when I read your comment that seemed like it would never come to an end. I guess I'll be more careful next time about what I read. you really sound like you're kin to the energizer bunny 🐰 🐇 you're everywhere on the map. I suggest that you might want too limit your caffeine in take because if you aren't careful you'll ware yourself out. I'm sorry girl but, you're a Trumpion loony and you know what gave you away? the fake administration and up to that point I just thought you had a caffeine high going on but it's worse then that you've been bitten by Trumpy 🐻 🐻❄ 🧸 🐻 🐻❄ 🧸 good grief
I had a blood clot in my right lung pulmonary embolism Aug 2019 and survived thank God. But will always be Dan Blocker God rest your soul ❤. You left a good mark on this world
I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ? such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character " that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight..Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ? Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan ! I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?) Thanks, " Beauty is as Beauty Does" the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into Hank's office by mistake! Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine" "God Gave Them One More Day" I Ain't no Middleman" FredGold& LyndaFaye "LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
Funny how a television icon like Dan Blocker can occupy our collective conscious and yet I’ve seen so few interviews. What a thoughtful and introspective man he was.
He probably didn't NEED the exposure of many interviews-dedicated and BUSY; Dolly Pardon's A&R man in Hollywood 's name was Dan Blocker-a really rude jerk; hope he wasn't related to DON! .
What a marvelous interview, although way too short. Clearly, Mr. Blocker was a thoughtful, educated, and deeper man than the character he played on Bonanza.
David Blocker (Dan's oldest son) said in an interview that Michael Landon was overwhelmed with grief when Dan died. He said each year on the anniversary of his dad's death (May 13) Michael Landon would travel alone to Dan's burial site at Woodmen Cemetery in DeKalb, Texas to leave flowers and say a prayer over Dan's grave. I believe I read that Landon's daughter, Leslie, still makes a trip each year to Dan's grave site to leave flowers.
Have you seen the comment above BY LYNN WOOD ? Like to see a BOOK about this man from some who personally knew him; or at least a well-assembled video ....A VIDEO of some public domain footage connected with DAN BLOCKER'S MILITARY EXPERIENCE ? GREAT INTERVIEW; Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ? I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ? such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character " that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?) Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " working full time to support a family AND working on a degree at UCLA , .....WHILE trying to enter the acting field, is allot of stress on allot of aspiring actors too; RIP Dan ! I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?) Thanks, " Beauty is as Beauty Does" the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into Hank's office by mistake! Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine" "God Gave Them One More Day" I Ain't no Middleman" FredGold& LyndaFaye "LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
@ John R. Dan Blocker was the only one of the four main stars of Bonanza to have graduated from college with a degree. He was a teacher before becoming a TV and movie star. Yes...he was a very smart and educated man.
Better humble person than narcissistic Maurice Orawitz who was Michael Landon but His politics on China were wrong. We are paying dearly for this China junk today. Damn communists.
@@lloydkline6946 I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ? such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character " that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?) Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan ! I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?) Thanks, " Beauty is as Beauty Does" the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into Hank's office by mistake! Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine" "God Gave Them One More Day" I Ain't no Middleman" FredGold& LyndaFaye "LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
The quesion about being superstisious going into the 13th season of Bonanza is very eerie. It was his last season with the show. He died quite young, on May 13, 1972. Rest in peace big guy...
He moved to Southern California to work on his PhD in English Literature at UCLA in the 1950s. To support himself and his family he took bit parts as an actor and his acting career took off.
@@ellez2115 I saw "Mommie Dearest" in a movie theater. Mommie, older and taller than Christina, won a swimming race, and Christina bleated "That's not fair!" Mommie replied, "Nobody ever said life is fair." Many in the audience burst out laughing.
That's a joke right? China is not close to what we would like them to be, economically or constitutionally (freedoms we take for granted). But Nixon opened the door for that country to have options other than Mao or his even worse wife Jiang Qing. In 1971, at the time of this conversation with Dan Blocker, Communist China was in the midst of the "Cultural Revolution" which made the 1949 revolution look like a tea party. The Chinese were in a state of dire poverty of food, freedom, and to say the least politics, yet Chairman Mao fomented a people's revolution 1966-76 to take back power he felt he was losing his grip on. The Cultural Revolution tore the country apart as much or more than any of Mao's other machinations like "The Great Leap Forward" or "Let a hundred flowers bloom" campaigns to move his country into the 20th Century. All were failures which led to millions of deaths and imprisonments and emigration from a country that had become a cult. China is so much ahead of those bad old days that while we lament their dilatory move to liberty, they are at least in a position now to grab it if the population decides they've had enough. Back then, China was less than a third world country. What Nixon did was improve the state of a billion people.
Capitalism is creeping into China in a big way. There are now a number of multibillionaires in China, and a lot of millionaires due to capitalism. Don't confuse the government with what's happening at ground level. The Chinese people lack freedom, and too many are still very poor, but this does not mean capitalism isn't getting pretty strong there. In fact, Capitalism may be stronger in China than it is anywhere else in the world. Capitalism has nothing to do with the form of government a country has, and nothing at all to do with ninety percent of the things we label as freedoms, other than being able to buy, sell, run businesses, and keeping a decent part of the profit. China has one of the strongest economies in the world precisely because they have become capitalists. Communist capitalists, but still very strong capitalists. It seems many confuse capitalism with democracy, a Bill of Rights, etc. That is simply wrong.
@@allysman You have no idea what capitalism even is, or which forms of government can be very strong capitalists. China is now a capitalist country, and its economy is one of the strongest in the world. They do not need to transform the government in any way except to be allowed to run businesses for profit. They did this twenty years ago. I have no clue why so many think communists can't also be capitalists? Capitalism has nothing to do with democracy, and with personal freedoms, other than the freedom to make a lot of money. China has multibillionaires and multimillionaires popping up all over the country. It also has many millions of people who aren't rich, but who now earn very good livings. Far too many are still dirt poor, but much of that is our fault. If everyone in China starts earning a decent living, we will no longer get billions of dollars of very cheap goods. We don't want that to happen. So don't blame China dfor everything. We do all we can to keep enough people in China poor to keep getting all those cheap things, and to keep our companies who have moved there operating at a big profit, all at the expense of the very poor. Anyway, China is a nasty, evil, extremely dangerous communist country, and capitalism has simply made them even more dangerous, and more evil.
Not sure if it's been mentioned here, but I heard Dan Blocker had a photographic memory. They said he could look over a script one time and have all his lines memorized! Hoss was definitely the glue that held Bonanza together, and I still watch it daily all these years later
@@rayjr62 WOW, MR. PHIPPS! LOOK at Lynn Wood's comment, and see if you don't see a VIDEO the two of YOU could create and dedicate to DAN BLOCKER'S LEGACY ? I always loved this guy (that's Dan Blocker, not YOU, sorry!) and I type 100 wpm, so I can help; but you guys would have to EDIT the words; (no time to look back you see!)I'll paste this for you btw on Lynn Wood (wondered if that was a female Lynn or the famous attorney, Lynn Wood ? Well, as John Wayne used to say, "I got my copy paste and I'm a GUNNA USE IT !" One of the few things Google did right/ Microsoft, duh? Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ? I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ? such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prairie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character " that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?) Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan ! I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?) Thanks, " Beauty is as Beauty Does" the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into Hank's office by mistake! Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine" "God Gave Them One More Day" I Ain't no Middleman" FredGold& LyndaFaye "LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
@@rayjr62 Now that I review my comment, I think I see a COLLABORATION of writers here or at least admieres of this man, who could and SHOULD put these facts all, perhaps, into a BOOK? If not a video... How does JTO 0 below KNOW "ALL THE ACTORS worked well with each other ? was he back stage for any of the filming ? Perhaps as in the Barbara Streisand sequel, they did not, and just came together during the readings and filming ? I'm asking him... but all three of your comments are really inspiring... (Yes and I used to live two blocks away from the UCLA Law library, ha )
Interesting that he sort of acknowledged that the show, going into it's 13th season, only had maybe a couple of more seasons left. At the time Bonanza's ratings were in steep decline. I also only recently discovered that he was the highest educated of the main cast.
EXTREMELY sad for a man who's "acting life" really had just begun ...I wondered if that COLLEGE DEGREE was WORK -when a man has a family to support AND a full-time-JOB ANYWHERE... IT'S LOTS OF STRESS. Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ? I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ? such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character " that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?) Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan ! I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?) Thanks, " Beauty is as Beauty Does" the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into Hank's office by mistake! Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine" "God Gave Them One More Day" I Ain't no Middleman" FredGold& LyndaFaye "LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
He bummed a beer off my dad at riverside raceway in 60's then turned around and asked for another. My dad always said he was a great guy and very cordial and wished he would have asked for his autograph
He backed into my cousin’s family car at a grocery store in Glendale around the time of this interview. They said there was a split second where almost decided to drive off
@@YourFoodBank Remember though, fender benders were so overly indulged in big money by insurance companies; Most fender benders I'd heard of preferred to settle right there on the spot to avoid humungous stacks of paperwork just so insurance companies could RAISE YOUR PREMIUMS ? ? (Even some attorneys preferred those quick "settlement" processes ? Especially if they were busy with "much more IMPORTANT "cases ? Having driven those LA freeways while at CSUN, some of us even carried TOWELS and ICE in the trunks of our cars for the "many occasions." (Seriously-I logged my experiences too-Courts close down, she still has the accident paperwork hardcopies!)
Have you seen the comment above BY LYNN WOOD ? Like to see a BOOK about this man from some who personally knew him; or at least a well-assembled video ....A VIDEO of some public domain footage connected with DAN BLOCKER'S MILITARY EXPERIENCE ? GREAT INTERVIEW; Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ? I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ? such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character " that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?) Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " working full time to support a family AND working on a degree at UCLA , .....WHILE trying to enter the acting field, is allot of stress on allot of aspiring actors too; RIP Dan ! I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?) Thanks, " Beauty is as Beauty Does" the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into Hank's office by mistake! Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine" "God Gave Them One More Day" I Ain't no Middleman" FredGold& LyndaFaye "LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
Being from rural Texas, sending his kids to Switzerland for broader education and culture was a wise decision. He had a lot of foresight in taking care of his family.
I don't remember having seen an interview with Dan. He was so intelligent. So articulate. Can you imagine? At the time of the interview he was speaking of China having 700 million people. Now it's more than twice that size.
He moved to Southern California to work on his PhD in English Literature at UCLA in the 1950s. To support himself and his family he took bit parts as an actor and his acting career took off so he put his academic pursuits on the hold. In retrospect, It turned out to be a wise decision.
@@rayjr62 Fascinating - Thank you for this information! I am awed by how many actors in decades past had another career, possibility that showed strength of character, intelligence, patriotism, and more. Many of today's actors - Legends in their own minds - are one-trick ponies who barely have high school educations, and liberal-to-socialists views. No doubt a HUGE factor that I watch considerably more movies and TV series from years past over the PC garbage of today! :-)
Thank you for your service btw: Have you seen the comment above BY LYNN WOOD ? Like to see a BOOK about this man from some who personally knew him; or at least a well-assembled video ....A VIDEO of some public domain footage connected with DAN BLOCKER'S MILITARY EXPERIENCE ? GREAT INTERVIEW; Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ? I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ? such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character " that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?) Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " working full time to support a family AND working on a degree at UCLA , .....WHILE trying to enter the acting field, is allot of stress on allot of aspiring actors too; RIP Dan ! I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?) Thanks, " Beauty is as Beauty Does" the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into Hank's office by mistake! Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine" "God Gave Them One More Day" I Ain't no Middleman" FredGold& LyndaFaye "LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
Was an interesting interview. He demonstrated that he was a highly educated person. He had his M.A. degree & dropped out of the Ph.D program to pursue acting. It would be interesting to speculate where he would have ended up if he had lived. He had been a teacher, was interested in politics, & was a good actor. Would he have gone back to teaching? Would he have entered politics like Ronald Reagan or Sonny Bono? Would he have continued acting? One can only wonder.
Yes I was a kid when He died, well 17, that seems like a kid to me today, now we buy Refrigerators from "Them" & we better be good or "They" may just wipe "Us" out
My favorite actor on Bonanza. He was Bonanza to me. He was an educated, loving father that really seemed to care about his fans. He was called home too soon and I for one feel blessed to see him still on Bonanza. RIP Eric “Hoss” Cartwright/ Dan Blocker🙏❤️
Amazing. He served in the Korean War, had to lug the base for a fifty caliber, earned the Combat Infantry Badge and a Purple Heart. I did not realize he was three weeks younger than my father, also a veteran of Korea. RIP all.
LYNN maybe YOU should make a video ALL ABOUT your knowledge of this above. WAR is on peoples' mindS lately you know ? Course some wars are just MASSACURES created by master egotistical narcissists? TRY IT the "footage is Public Domaine" too . Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ? I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ? such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character " that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?) Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan ! I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?) Thanks, " Beauty is as Beauty Does" the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into Hank's office by mistake! Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine" "God Gave Them One More Day" I Ain't no Middleman" FredGold& LyndaFaye "LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often? For Lynn Wood: 805-616-7394
WOW, MR. PHIPPS! LOOK at Lynn Wood's comment, and see if you don't see a VIDEO the two of YOU could create and dedicate to DAN BLOCKER'S LEGACY ? I always loved this guy (that's Dan Blocker, not YOU, sorry!) and I type 100 wpm, so I can help; but you guys would have to EDIT the words; (no time to look back you see!)I'll paste this for you btw on Lynn Wood (wondered if that was a female Lynn or the famous attorney, Lynn Wood ? Well, as John Wayne used to say, "I got my copy paste and I'm a GUNNA USE IT !" One of the few things Google did right/ Microsoft, duh? Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ? I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ? such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prairie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character " that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?) Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan ! I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?) Thanks, " Beauty is as Beauty Does" the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into Hank's office by mistake! Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine" "God Gave Them One More Day" I Ain't no Middleman" FredGold& LyndaFaye "LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
He moved to Southern California to work on his PhD in English Literature at UCLA in the 1950s. To support himself and his family he took bit parts as an actor and his acting career took off.
Tragically... he was right about "Bonanza" only being on the air two more seasons. He died in 1973 and it was only Lorne Green & Michael Landon left. A sad, lonely ending to a great television show.
And no idea he had less than a year to live. And typical NBC, they never explained or had a memoranda episode of how Hoss died, it was just mentioned in passing. Bonanza was an American institution known all over the world, made the network tons of money, and it will shock you how petty they could be behind the scenes. Only Gunsmoke ran longer, 20 seasons to Bonanzas 14.
He just could not keep a healthy weight. His doctors had to have him lose weight before doing a simple gallbladder surgery because he was well over 300 lbs and at risk with his heart, blood pressure with surgery. He dropped some weight but not enough. As smart as he was one would think he would have loved his family enough to figure out how to eat properly to stay around longer.
He talked very well and he said the Destruction of them or the Destruction of us he understood what it was like to be a Human Being Rest in Peace Dan Blocker
I was 15 when he died it was on my dads birthday. Our family always watched Bonanza Sunday nights. How we liked forward to it. My sister and I had our own horses ad always pretended we were on the Ponderosa when we went riding. Wonderful times. My mom s favorite character was Boss a gentle giant.
His nickname on the show was "hoss" , that is the countrified version of "horse "....why is it being written as " haas " ? Edit: My favorite episode was when "hoss " was searching for a leprechaun and little joe was teasing him. My brother and I have reenacted the funniest part of that episode throughout the years and it makes us laugh as hard as we laughed when we originally saw it.
I was quite surprised when I learned that Dan played football at Tarleton State college in Stephenville Tx. I knew that he was a native Texan from the panhandle.
I knew that Lorne Greene, Parnell Roberts, and Dan Blocker all wore toupees on Bonanza, but I had never seen Dan Blocker without his hairpiece. He is almost unrecognizable. But the voice is pure "Hoss"!
He is the main character I loved to see on Bonanza. The Big guy who made it right. You're loved and from the town of ODonnell, Tx. and your birth place of DeKalb, Tx. RIP Hoss!
It is very hard for me to see this big huge loveable intelligent man sit here before my eyes and talk about China as if they are our best friends. Dan smoked. He was a staunch Democrat from the old school. He served his country in Korea. He was a highly educated man. His opinions are of the times. I have to believe today, if he were alive and in his prime, his views on China would be vastly different. He fought the Communist in Korea mind you, but he was a fair minded man with pretty strong convictions. Bonanza, in my opinion, was, is and shall always be, the quintessential western TV show. Every time I see the opening sequence with Hoss, Adam, Little Joe and Ben, I cry because these men represented an amazing time in our countries history. Each is gone now and I pray they keep riding into that sunset in God's piece of the sky called "*THE PONDEROSA*"🐎🐎🐎🐎🙏
No, he was right. We couldn’t ignore such a large population. The U.S. just made some bad deals along the way. If we had ignored them China would have made deals with the rest of the world and who knows what would have happened politically. It would most likely be a more aggressive China due to wanting more.
The Chinese Communists unlike the Soviets were fortunate in their leadership. After Mao died younger leaders took over and acted with the flexibility that Lenin showed during the years he was in charge after the Revolution.
Gosh this is the only interview I have seen of Mr Blocker he was such an incredible actor. I know he appeared on talk shows but there are none on You Tube. I grew up in the UK with Bonanza but only up to 1970 as I then left home to do my registered nurse training so did not see the last few seasons. Since we have been in total lockdown I have been catching up rewatching all the episodes again and it reminded me of very happy days of my youth. So whoever posted this thank you.
Who didn’t love Hoss? Dan Blocker, gentle giant.
I wish I could have had him for my big buddy friend.
❤the big house, he was an three stooges movie, bonasa tv show etc etc
Weren't all four (and eventually three) Bonanza stars follically challenged?
Dan..Blok..foi..o..melhor..do..Bonanza
muito..simpatico..e.muito..justo
Great man. Highly educated. Everybody loved Dan Blocker.
Yes and very politically active.
This is surprisingly good. Dan Blocker surprised me with his intelligence and sophistication. Good for him. He speaks the truth. He knew more about the value of China than people do now. And, he educated his kids in Switzerland. Wow, excellent. Good man.
A great and kind American man. 🇺🇸
How could you not love Hoss.....Very sad when he passed...
I've never seen him interviewed😊👍
Unfortunately, a lot of people thought that way and it proved a disaster.
That was 50 years ago. Who could have guessed that after Mao died that the Chinese would have had leaders so unfettered by ideology.
What a great guy and such foresight on China
I like very Mr
Blocker.
I don't remember seeing him in an interview. Great interview. BTW what was he wearing?
RIP Hoss.
Wow, finally get to see Dan Blocker as himself after a lifetime. Thanks.
Did you miss how long ago he died?
Ya...I'm 50 and I've never heard him speak till now...
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin
and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan !
I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?)
Thanks,
" Beauty is as Beauty Does"
the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked int
Hank's office by mistake!
Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine"
"God Gave Them One More Day"
I Ain't no Middleman"
FredGold& LyndaFaye
"LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
Me too first time I seen him not in television this is why I love utupe
Yeah. Pretty disappointing isn’t it? I liked him much better before I learned how arrogant and anti-American he was!
Nobody could have replaced Dan Blocker's character of Hoss on Bonanza. He had it nailed. God rest his great big gentle heart.
funny you should say that, such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character "
that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight..Sounds like a song comin in, yes ?
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin
and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan !
I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?)
Thanks,
" Beauty is as Beauty Does"
the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked int
Hank's office by mistake!
Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine"
"God Gave Them One More Day"
I Ain't no Middleman"
FredGold& LyndaFaye
"LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
He passed at only 44 ...
@@douglascarlson9006 43, from a pulmonary embolism after surgery. They actually wrote his death into the show, that he died saving someones life. Which was interesting because it was dangerous life working a ranch. The show failed after him.
@@charles-y2z6c Thank you Charles ...
Those were the days ... and my all-time favorite drug continues to be - NOSTALGIA!
@@douglascarlson9006 they sure were, I remember as a child sitting around with the whole family watching Bonanza. I cried when they told me Hoss Died.
One of the most likeable TV characters ever
Big ole faktzzz
He was a very talented actor and a very intelligent man. I just loved him as “Hoss” on Bonanza, and was heartbroken as a child to learn of his passing on the show. My Dad and I always watched the Westerns on TV when I was growing up. Great and precious memories. 💙
@@odiekarone Loved My "Hoss" Dan Blocker. Broke my heart too as a child when Hoss Cartwright died. What a great man, what a great actor.
Mine as well.💔
❤️ the Hoss legendary TV character
Dan Blocker was Level headed, Intelligent and possessed of Common Sense. Traits not often found these days...
Articulate and with no swear words.
Yet completely ignorant of the CCP.
@@20alphabet Maybe he didn't want to PUBLICALLY DISPLAY his knowledge of the CCP?
funny you should say that, such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character "
that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight..Sounds like a song comin in, yes ?
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin
and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan !
I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?)
Thanks,
" Beauty is as Beauty Does"
the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked int
Hank's office by mistake!
Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine"
"God Gave Them One More Day"
I Ain't no Middleman"
FredGold& LyndaFaye
"LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
I agree completely. He spoke with respect and like he was afraid he was saying something offensive. People now days don't care if they come across as rude or vulgar.
what do you mean 'common Sense'? His whole explanation of why the show would go 15 years was nonsensical...he was just a pompous actor who thought he was the smartest guy in the room.
Mr. Blocker was an outstanding actor, who had so much more to give. He died too, too soon. RIP.
He was well-read, educated, and seemed to have a real love of life. I wish there were more like him today. Almost every famous person today seems to be either hyper-PC, or on the other "side". People used to have more freedom of opinion.
Should have followed a better diet.
I know God bless you and your family
Way to soon*
@@bubbadump8676 yes my friend
I never saw him speak as himself before. He was a very intelligent and articulate man.🙏🏼❤️👏🏼
It is incredible that I can see and experience this interview in 2021.
I agree , and I believe his geopolitical views make as much since now as they did then.
Yeah hoss i remember when he died and how they handled it those were the days my friend we need a western on T.V.
Why is this 'incredible' ?
Only one hause. L.o.l that why.
@@manofiske3318 In the 70s if you didn't see the interview while it was aired on television, if you had access to the station it was played on at the time it was aired. If not you never saw it and it was gone and forgotten. Now we can all see it experience it, and discuss it anytime and anywhere .
Hoss was my favorite character from Bonanza, great actor. This was prophetic. HIs last episode was Season 13 Episode 26, aired April 2 1972, He passed away in May 13, 1972, the show ended after the following 14th year. He really was the heart and soul of that show.
HIs intelligence was often hidden underneath the loveable Hoss's surface, but it always came out in these interviews.
He was a decorated combat veteran of the Korean war, serving as an infantry sergeant, Most people think or assume he died of a heart attack. He had gallbladder surgery, which I believe was deemed successful, went home but developed a blood clot in his lung, which caused his death. Very sad end to a wonderful life.
I enjoyed this interview with him decades after he passed away.
I always enjoyed Dan as Hoss.
His son looks and talks just like him brings back wonderful memories and many laughs during the 13 Seasons he was on Bonanza.
R i p oh, return if possible is another meeting I learned the last year during 2020. Betty Gordon, Ames, Iowa
All major surgery is inherently dangerous.
Thank you for the info. I didn't know he was a Korean war veteran. I sort of remember watching Bonanza growing up and remember the Cartwright's. I only learned that Dan Blocker died at such a young age just recently. It's so sad because things in his life seemed to be going good and a year or so later he would die from complications from surgery. It goes to show you never know when you're last day will be.
@@brianwalsh1401 You are Welcome, yes, still gets me.
@@easycampfireguitarlessons EXTREMELY sad for a man who's "acting life" really had just begun ...I wondered if that COLLEGE DEGREE was WORK -when a man has a family to support AND a full-time-JOB ANYWHERE... IT'S LOTS OF STRESS.
Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ?
I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ?
such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character "
that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?)
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan !
I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?)
Thanks,
" Beauty is as Beauty Does"
the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into
Hank's office by mistake!
Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine"
"God Gave Them One More Day"
I Ain't no Middleman"
FredGold& LyndaFaye
"LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
He was gone way too soon! Too bad our current actors aren't as intelligent, articulate, and approachable.
@us71 Dan's death was the reason the show was cancelled.
I miss him.
@@georgemaster689 Yep!
Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ?
I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ?
such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character "
that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?)
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan !
I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?)
Thanks,
" Beauty is as Beauty Does"
the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into
Hank's office by mistake!
Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine"
"God Gave Them One More Day"
I Ain't no Middleman"
FredGold& LyndaFaye
"LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
@@lyndafaye6748 and too think I just wasted my time listening to a lot of nonsense. I mean time is precious and I'll never get that time back. I can't express how confusing you were sounding. I mean you started on the great Dan Blocker and found yourself talking about a fake administration. well, I've wasted even more time trying too explain how much time I wasted when I read your comment that seemed like it would never come to an end. I guess I'll be more careful next time about what I read. you really sound like you're kin to the energizer bunny 🐰 🐇 you're everywhere on the map. I suggest that you might want too limit your caffeine in take because if you aren't careful you'll ware yourself out. I'm sorry girl but, you're a Trumpion loony and you know what gave you away? the fake administration and up to that point I just thought you had a caffeine high going on but it's worse then that you've been bitten by Trumpy 🐻 🐻❄ 🧸 🐻 🐻❄ 🧸 good grief
I had a blood clot in my right lung pulmonary embolism Aug 2019 and survived thank God. But will always be Dan Blocker God rest your soul ❤. You left a good mark on this world
He will forever be missed
True story
@@Stafford-d8u greatest show every..remember watching as a young boy
@@chadfalaster8275 me too, all my family watched it every Sunday night. What memories.
@@rogerjoseph2532 yes sir ...
sounds like Rush
I loved the character he played in Bonanza. It's sad we lost him so soon.
I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ?
such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character "
that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight..Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin
and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan !
I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?)
Thanks,
" Beauty is as Beauty Does"
the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into
Hank's office by mistake!
Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine"
"God Gave Them One More Day"
I Ain't no Middleman"
FredGold& LyndaFaye
"LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
I remember the show after Dan died and how I cried. He was such a likeable character.
I have never seen this video. He was 42 and a year before his death.
He was similar size and age to Elvis before he died.
Funny how a television icon like Dan Blocker can occupy our collective conscious and yet I’ve seen so few interviews. What a thoughtful and introspective man he was.
He probably didn't NEED the exposure of many interviews-dedicated and BUSY; Dolly Pardon's A&R man in Hollywood 's name was Dan Blocker-a really rude jerk; hope he wasn't related to DON! .
He had a Masters degree , a very intelligent man ..this interview shows how
That’s right sounds intelligent
He was 100 percent wrong. China has become our downfall. Look at a national debt chart from 1970 on.
@@qasimmohamed1338 voicing what he thinks is right , same as you or me
@@psychozebra8802 Lots of people get it wrong. But this administration is diving into the demise that will kill US
@@CHEECHMUN No shit, really? It's all by design. Two wings of the same bird. Everything is going according to the plan. Evil people rule over us.
As a kid ..that show had such an impact on me. May all those that have passed R.I.P.
RIP Dan! Nice nice guy!
What a marvelous interview, although way too short. Clearly, Mr. Blocker was a thoughtful, educated, and deeper man than the character he played on Bonanza.
He was a smart man ahead of his times.
David Blocker (Dan's oldest son) said in an interview that Michael Landon was overwhelmed with grief when Dan died. He said each year on the anniversary of his dad's death (May 13) Michael Landon would travel alone to Dan's burial site at Woodmen Cemetery in DeKalb, Texas to leave flowers and say a prayer over Dan's grave. I believe I read that Landon's daughter, Leslie, still makes a trip each year to Dan's grave site to leave flowers.
Gee, may they both ride together now.
@@CHEECHMUN Yes..
Yes I hope they all are resting in peace 🙏❤️💔
Deeply moving. The affection between the characters, which was so apparent, was far deeper than we knew.
Have you seen the comment above BY LYNN WOOD ? Like to see a BOOK about this man from some who personally knew him; or at least a well-assembled video ....A VIDEO of some public domain footage connected with DAN BLOCKER'S MILITARY EXPERIENCE ?
GREAT INTERVIEW; Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ?
I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ?
such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character "
that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?)
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " working full time to support a family AND working on a degree at UCLA , .....WHILE trying to enter the acting field, is allot of stress on allot of aspiring actors too; RIP Dan !
I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?)
Thanks,
" Beauty is as Beauty Does"
the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into
Hank's office by mistake!
Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine"
"God Gave Them One More Day"
I Ain't no Middleman"
FredGold& LyndaFaye
"LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
Dan Blocker in real life was a lot smarter than Hoss Cartwright in Bonanza.
I would hope so. Hoss was my favorite growing up.
He was from Texas after all.
Yes. My very first thought.
@ John R. Dan Blocker was the only one of the four main stars of Bonanza to have graduated from college with a degree. He was a teacher before becoming a TV and movie star. Yes...he was a very smart and educated man.
He was far smarter then most in Bonanza.
What a voice! Brings joy to my life...love DB
Blocker passed away on May 13, 1972 at age 43. He died from a blood clot after gallbladder surgery.
Sad. And preventable in this era.
I loved Dan...he was a great man and actor. So sad to lose him early.
A gentle giant who kept Little Joe in place. GodBless them both.
Better humble person than narcissistic Maurice Orawitz who was Michael Landon but His politics on China were wrong. We are paying dearly for this China junk today. Damn communists.
Landon was devastated by Blocker's death and interestingly always had a big loveable character beside him -- whether on LHOP or Highway.
I remember when Dan Blocker passed away, and how shocked I was. Hoss was by far my favorite character on my favorite show, Bonanza.
A gentle giant . Super strong man with a heart of gold
Taken from this world way too soon
Banana was a legendary great tv show hoss left killed the bananza
@@lloydkline6946 I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ?
such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character "
that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?)
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan !
I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?)
Thanks,
" Beauty is as Beauty Does"
the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into
Hank's office by mistake!
Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine"
"God Gave Them One More Day"
I Ain't no Middleman"
FredGold& LyndaFaye
"LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
Dan the man
He was fine and decent human being
I wish this interview went on for hours.
The quesion about being superstisious going into the 13th season of Bonanza is very eerie. It was his last season with the show. He died quite young, on May 13, 1972. Rest in peace big guy...
I thought about that too. 13th day 13th year.
I know, it gave me chills, Bonanza couldn't make it without Dan
His humour and intelligence were a joy to watch every single episode. I liked Hoss the best.
Boy, he is very bright.
He moved to Southern California to work on his PhD in English Literature at UCLA in the 1950s. To support himself and his family he took bit parts as an actor and his acting career took off.
Anyone else see Governor of Texas there if Blocker didn’t die?
With his views on China probably not.
No.
No. Too intellegent.
Nope. Too intelligent and his progressive views on China and much else would have not made him a suitable candidate for any elected office.
@@rayjr62 Any elected office in Texas, anyway.
Way smarter than a lot of people would have thought. Sad to lose such a fine person too early. Sometimes life isn't fair.
Most of the time.
@@ellez2115 I saw "Mommie Dearest" in a movie theater. Mommie, older and taller than Christina, won a swimming race, and Christina bleated "That's not fair!" Mommie replied, "Nobody ever said life is fair." Many in the audience burst out laughing.
After I heard Dan Blocker had died I was never the same. He was Bonanza
@Fred Forbes no he died in a hospital.
Ditto.
you are so right.
@Fred Forbes ...I thought there was 1 or 2 seasons without him .
@Fred Forbes ...lol...i hated Oliver
Great that this was posted. There was obviously a lot more to Dan Blocker than just Hoss. He died a very young man. R.I.P.
Nixon opened pandora's box. We thought the Chinese would be become capitalists. Boy did we fuck up!
That's a joke right? China is not close to what we would like them to be, economically or constitutionally (freedoms we take for granted).
But Nixon opened the door for that country to have options other than Mao or his even worse wife Jiang Qing. In 1971, at the time of this conversation with Dan Blocker, Communist China was in the midst of the "Cultural Revolution" which made the 1949 revolution look like a tea party.
The Chinese were in a state of dire poverty of food, freedom, and to say the least politics, yet Chairman Mao fomented a people's revolution 1966-76 to take back power he felt he was losing his grip on. The Cultural Revolution tore the country apart as much or more than any of Mao's other machinations like
"The Great Leap Forward" or "Let a hundred flowers bloom" campaigns to move his country into the 20th Century.
All were failures which led to millions of deaths and imprisonments and emigration from a country that had become a cult.
China is so much ahead of those bad old days that while we lament their dilatory move to liberty, they are at least in a position now to grab it if the population decides they've had enough.
Back then, China was less than a third world country.
What Nixon did was improve the state of a billion people.
Nixon did open that box but it was intended to force the Russians to worry about China also since both of those countries hated each other.
The Democrats turned it into a Pandora's box
Capitalism is creeping into China in a big way. There are now a number of multibillionaires in China, and a lot of millionaires due to capitalism. Don't confuse the government with what's happening at ground level.
The Chinese people lack freedom, and too many are still very poor, but this does not mean capitalism isn't getting pretty strong there. In fact, Capitalism may be stronger in China than it is anywhere else in the world.
Capitalism has nothing to do with the form of government a country has, and nothing at all to do with ninety percent of the things we label as freedoms, other than being able to buy, sell, run businesses, and keeping a decent part of the profit. China has one of the strongest economies in the world precisely because they have become capitalists. Communist capitalists, but still very strong capitalists.
It seems many confuse capitalism with democracy, a Bill of Rights, etc. That is simply wrong.
@@allysman You have no idea what capitalism even is, or which forms of government can be very strong capitalists. China is now a capitalist country, and its economy is one of the strongest in the world. They do not need to transform the government in any way except to be allowed to run businesses for profit. They did this twenty years ago.
I have no clue why so many think communists can't also be capitalists? Capitalism has nothing to do with democracy, and with personal freedoms, other than the freedom to make a lot of money. China has multibillionaires and multimillionaires popping up all over the country. It also has many millions of people who aren't rich, but who now earn very good livings.
Far too many are still dirt poor, but much of that is our fault. If everyone in China starts earning a decent living, we will no longer get billions of dollars of very cheap goods. We don't want that to happen. So don't blame China dfor everything. We do all we can to keep enough people in China poor to keep getting all those cheap things, and to keep our companies who have moved there operating at a big profit, all at the expense of the very poor.
Anyway, China is a nasty, evil, extremely dangerous communist country, and capitalism has simply made them even more dangerous, and more evil.
Loved this guy, what a human being!
What a great human being, he was a staunch civil rights supporter also 👍🙏
Really????
He was. Very progressive, in terms of his politics.
@Skillz Sett Hardly.
@Skillz Sett
Really??? 😮😮😮
@Skillz Sett 😭😭😭
Not sure if it's been mentioned here, but I heard Dan Blocker had a photographic memory. They said he could look over a script one time and have all his lines memorized! Hoss was definitely the glue that held Bonanza together, and I still watch it daily all these years later
He moved to Southern California to work on his PhD in English Literature at UCLA in the 1950s.
Dan and all the actors on the show were great. They worked well with each other
@@rayjr62 WOW, MR. PHIPPS! LOOK at Lynn Wood's comment, and see if you don't see a VIDEO the two of YOU could create and dedicate to DAN BLOCKER'S LEGACY ? I always loved this guy (that's Dan Blocker, not YOU, sorry!) and I type 100 wpm, so I can help; but you guys would have to EDIT the words; (no time to look back you see!)I'll paste this for you btw on Lynn Wood (wondered if that was a female Lynn or the famous attorney, Lynn Wood ? Well, as John Wayne used to say, "I got my copy paste and I'm a GUNNA USE IT !" One of the few things Google did right/ Microsoft, duh?
Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ?
I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ?
such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prairie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character "
that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?)
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan !
I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?)
Thanks,
" Beauty is as Beauty Does"
the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into
Hank's office by mistake!
Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine"
"God Gave Them One More Day"
I Ain't no Middleman"
FredGold& LyndaFaye
"LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
@@rayjr62 Now that I review my comment, I think I see a COLLABORATION of writers here or at least admieres of this man, who could and SHOULD put these facts all, perhaps, into a BOOK? If not a video... How does JTO 0 below KNOW "ALL THE ACTORS worked well with each other ? was he back stage for any of the filming ? Perhaps as in the Barbara Streisand sequel, they did not, and just came together during the readings and filming ? I'm asking him... but all three of your comments are really inspiring... (Yes and I used to live two blocks away from the UCLA Law library, ha )
Bet he would be singing a different tune about China now!
IN OTHER WORDS HE WAS DEAD WRONG THEN. BUT HOW COME 99.999 PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE COMMENTING CAN'T UNDERSTAND THAT NOW.
THANKS
You got that right :)
It didn’t have to be this way. That it did has to as much to do with American leadership as with theirs. Compare Biden with Xi.
I don't recognize him without his hat.
Or his hair.
Me either.
@@cctrans29 I knew he was thinning but, I didn't know he was chrome-dome bald and that's said with respect to Mr. Blocker's memory!
@@thomasshort1784 So was Pernell Roberts and they say Lorne Green. Michael had the full head of hair.
I thought that was his son Dirk until I clicked and discovered it was actually Dan!😀 Hoss was my favorite Cartwright.
This video was great until she brought up Politics. :(
This was 50 years ago. We were immensely more powerful than China as late as thirty years ago.
Interesting that he sort of acknowledged that the show, going into it's 13th season, only had maybe a couple of more seasons left. At the time Bonanza's ratings were in steep decline. I also only recently discovered that he was the highest educated of the main cast.
he was wrong, china owns us now
Sadly he died just a year later at 43 years of age. RIP sir 🙏
EXTREMELY sad for a man who's "acting life" really had just begun ...I wondered if that COLLEGE DEGREE was WORK -when a man has a family to support AND a full-time-JOB ANYWHERE... IT'S LOTS OF STRESS.
Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ?
I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ?
such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character "
that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?)
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan !
I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?)
Thanks,
" Beauty is as Beauty Does"
the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into
Hank's office by mistake!
Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine"
"God Gave Them One More Day"
I Ain't no Middleman"
FredGold& LyndaFaye
"LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
That 13 season was a bad omen, I didn't know that, Thx
Dan Blocker was a true gentle man.
The 13th season would indeed be the darkest for the Cartwrights. Miss you Hoss.
I WOULD click the 13th LIKE!!!!!
He bummed a beer off my dad at riverside raceway in 60's then turned around and asked for another. My dad always said he was a great guy and very cordial and wished he would have asked for his autograph
Makes perfectly good sense. He reportedly bought a 1965 396 Chevelle SS.. great post btw!
He backed into my cousin’s family car at a grocery store in Glendale around the time of this interview. They said there was a split second where almost decided to drive off
I heard he was notorious for squeezing a dollar
@@YourFoodBank Remember though, fender benders were so overly indulged in big money by insurance companies; Most fender benders I'd heard of preferred to settle right there on the spot to avoid humungous stacks of paperwork just so insurance companies could RAISE YOUR PREMIUMS ? ? (Even some attorneys preferred those quick "settlement" processes ? Especially if they were busy with "much more IMPORTANT "cases ? Having driven those LA freeways while at CSUN, some of us even carried TOWELS and ICE in the trunks of our cars for the "many occasions." (Seriously-I logged my experiences too-Courts close down, she still has the accident paperwork hardcopies!)
Have you seen the comment above BY LYNN WOOD ? Like to see a BOOK about this man from some who personally knew him; or at least a well-assembled video ....A VIDEO of some public domain footage connected with DAN BLOCKER'S MILITARY EXPERIENCE ?
GREAT INTERVIEW; Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ?
I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ?
such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character "
that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?)
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " working full time to support a family AND working on a degree at UCLA , .....WHILE trying to enter the acting field, is allot of stress on allot of aspiring actors too; RIP Dan !
I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?)
Thanks,
" Beauty is as Beauty Does"
the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into
Hank's office by mistake!
Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine"
"God Gave Them One More Day"
I Ain't no Middleman"
FredGold& LyndaFaye
"LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
Being from rural Texas, sending his kids to Switzerland for broader education and culture was a wise decision. He had a lot of foresight in taking care of his family.
I don't remember having seen an interview with Dan. He was so intelligent. So articulate. Can you imagine? At the time of the interview he was speaking of China having 700 million people. Now it's more than twice that size.
Dan Blocker was the most educated of all the cast. He had a masters in Fine Arts.
@@ReggieCox he was also a teacher, before becoming an actor!👍
Yeah, they do alot of something over there
@C J 👋🤠
@@danpatch4751 Quite a lot.
He played one of the most likable characters in tv history . Bonanza was the only western I watched regularly.
Quite an intelligent man who didn't leave his time with his craft as an actor, and Mr. Blocker KNEW what he was talking about - A great actor, too!
He moved to Southern California to work on his PhD in English Literature at UCLA in the 1950s. To support himself and his family he took bit parts as an actor and his acting career took off so he put his academic pursuits on the hold. In retrospect, It turned out to be a wise decision.
@@rayjr62 Fascinating - Thank you for this information! I am awed by how many actors in decades past had another career, possibility that showed strength of character, intelligence, patriotism, and more. Many of today's actors - Legends in their own minds - are one-trick ponies who barely have high school educations, and liberal-to-socialists views. No doubt a HUGE factor that I watch considerably more movies and TV series from years past over the PC garbage of today! :-)
@@usaveteran-retired6464 SMH...
he was wrong, just ask taiwan
Thank you for your service btw: Have you seen the comment above BY LYNN WOOD ? Like to see a BOOK about this man from some who personally knew him; or at least a well-assembled video ....A VIDEO of some public domain footage connected with DAN BLOCKER'S MILITARY EXPERIENCE ?
GREAT INTERVIEW; Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ?
I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ?
such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character "
that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?)
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " working full time to support a family AND working on a degree at UCLA , .....WHILE trying to enter the acting field, is allot of stress on allot of aspiring actors too; RIP Dan !
I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?)
Thanks,
" Beauty is as Beauty Does"
the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into
Hank's office by mistake!
Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine"
"God Gave Them One More Day"
I Ain't no Middleman"
FredGold& LyndaFaye
"LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
I loved him a lot! He always seemed like a genuinely nice person!❤️🇨🇦
One of the most beloved Actors ever was our Hoss! !!
How bright Dan was! Thanks for posting this gem.
RIP. Dan Dlocker
Blocker
he was a legend rip Dan blocker from all here in Ireland
The interviewer is lovely. Reminds me of Sandy Duncan.
She was a Fort Worth legend.
When I was a child, I watched the show and Dan was my favorite actor. I was 5 years old when he died. A big loss for so many. God bless Dan.
Was an interesting interview. He demonstrated that he was a highly educated person. He had his M.A. degree & dropped out of the Ph.D program to pursue acting. It would be interesting to speculate where he would have ended up if he had lived. He had been a teacher, was interested in politics, & was a good actor. Would he have gone back to teaching? Would he have entered politics like Ronald Reagan or Sonny Bono? Would he have continued acting? One can only wonder.
"One can only wonder" I believe was the last line spoken in the original Movie "The Time Machine" starring Rod Taylor!!
Yes I was a kid when He died, well 17, that seems like a kid to me today, now we buy Refrigerators from "Them" & we better be good or "They" may just wipe "Us" out
No Reagan No Bono, Dan was a Democrat.
Bom dia , não tem a tradução dessa entrevista???
@@markwest3485
He wouldn't have been a democrat today because the democrats have turned too far left as they want socialism!!
Sorry but no can do!!
Thank you for sharing this VERY RARE interview footage with Dan Blocker here on RUclips. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Yes
My favorite actor on Bonanza. He was Bonanza to me. He was an educated, loving father that really seemed to care about his fans. He was called home too soon and I for one feel blessed to see him still on Bonanza. RIP Eric “Hoss” Cartwright/ Dan Blocker🙏❤️
Nice words.
Amazing. He served in the Korean War, had to lug the base for a fifty caliber, earned the Combat Infantry Badge and a Purple Heart.
I did not realize he was three weeks younger than my father, also a veteran of Korea.
RIP all.
LYNN maybe YOU should make a video ALL ABOUT your knowledge of this above. WAR is on peoples' mindS lately you know ?
Course some wars are just MASSACURES created by master egotistical narcissists? TRY IT the "footage is Public Domaine" too .
Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ?
I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ?
such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prarie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character "
that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?)
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan !
I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?)
Thanks,
" Beauty is as Beauty Does"
the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into
Hank's office by mistake!
Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine"
"God Gave Them One More Day"
I Ain't no Middleman"
FredGold& LyndaFaye
"LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
For Lynn Wood: 805-616-7394
WOW, MR. PHIPPS! LOOK at Lynn Wood's comment, and see if you don't see a VIDEO the two of YOU could create and dedicate to DAN BLOCKER'S LEGACY ? I always loved this guy (that's Dan Blocker, not YOU, sorry!) and I type 100 wpm, so I can help; but you guys would have to EDIT the words; (no time to look back you see!)I'll paste this for you btw on Lynn Wood (wondered if that was a female Lynn or the famous attorney, Lynn Wood ? Well, as John Wayne used to say, "I got my copy paste and I'm a GUNNA USE IT !" One of the few things Google did right/ Microsoft, duh?
Seems to me it's the ARROGANT HOSTS that elicit the inarticulate appropriateness of "today's" interview shows. They're moreover about the hosts needing a screen test sample to show , than the actors they're interviewing ?
I think he had "allot more under his belt" w/ more cleverness "up his sleeve" than he had time to express ?
such as Michael Landon "was" or "became" the Little House on the Prairie?" DAN WAS the "gentle heart character "
that WAS " Bonanza." I used to love to make up titles back then (and still , ha) and thought a whole show should have been devoted TO Dan Blocker, and title it " Gentle Heart?" Gee , maybe I'll copyright that tonight.(.Sounds like 'a song comin' ON" HERE yes ?)
Well, said, and this in regard to an actor whose private life wasn't displayed as so many video-makers do today to their actors. (Think I have a list of those inaccuracies somewhere by now!). TEXAN, huh? Bet he'd have allot to say TODAY about China, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Putin and the Fake Administration of Gangsters flopping around pretending they know anything about helping THEIR OWN PEOPLE ? What a great "character' he was-So now we see he was " Two Great Characters! " yes? RIP Dan !
I was sort of hoping that a commenter who knew Mr. Blocker personally, would come here, and I could ask if they KNEW, if the music agent " Don" Blocker -was related to Dan? His office was two doors down from "Hank" Mancini's" and he represented Dolly back when songwriters had to play their songs live for agents. (Long story short --ANYONE ?)
Thanks,
" Beauty is as Beauty Does"
the song I sang live for DON Blocker the day I accidentally walked into
Hank's office by mistake!
Praying for Afghanistan and the Ukraine"
"God Gave Them One More Day"
I Ain't no Middleman"
FredGold& LyndaFaye
"LyndaFayeSmusic@gmail.com) and at Yahoo, if I get censored for using the word God too often?
Always loved Dan " Hoss " Blocker , one of my all-time favorite actors and the show Bonanza was a favorite as well . R I P
Dan seemed like such a nice man from all I've read about him. & Bonanza made him a well deserved rich man. RIP Dan. You left the room way too soon.
I'm amazed at the intellect of Dan Blocker.
He moved to Southern California to work on his PhD in English Literature at UCLA in the 1950s. To support himself and his family he took bit parts as an actor and his acting career took off.
@@rayjr62 Wow..so cool!!
Not just a pretty face
@@charlesdesmond6510 And more brains before breakfast than most people have all fucking day.
Im on my 7th season watching Bonanza on RUclips
Dan Blocker should've gone into politics. He knows what he's talking about. Rip 'Hoss'. ❣️
he was wrong, china owns us now
Tragically... he was right about "Bonanza" only being on the air two more seasons. He died in 1973 and it was only Lorne Green & Michael Landon left. A sad, lonely ending to a great television show.
Everybody on the Ponderosa wore a hair piece except Little Joe and Hopsing
Actually hopsing also wore hair piece by wearing a long braided hair or ponytail lol.
Hell John Wayne did too. Sure fooled me I didn't know Dan lost his hair.
Oh! I thought you said everybody had Herpes except little Joe and Hopsing.
Hair Club for Men made a fortune off the Bonanza cast
@Filthy McNasty if you see an interview he did on Johnny Carson his hair was all white
And no idea he had less than a year to live. And typical NBC, they never explained or had a memoranda episode of how Hoss died, it was just mentioned in passing. Bonanza was an American institution known all over the world, made the network tons of money, and it will shock you how petty they could be behind the scenes. Only Gunsmoke ran longer, 20 seasons to Bonanzas 14.
I can’t believe how young he died. The poor guy. 😭
He just could not keep a healthy weight. His doctors had to have him lose weight before doing a simple gallbladder surgery because he was well over 300 lbs and at risk with his heart, blood pressure with surgery. He dropped some weight but not enough. As smart as he was one would think he would have loved his family enough to figure out how to eat properly to stay around longer.
@@alicephillips3214 Stop judging! He died of a blood clot after gall bladder surgery..ignorant and mean comment..
I wish she wouldn’t have asked about China; it kinda changed the vibe, and there’s SO many other better questions.
My thoughts exactly.
He talked very well and he said the Destruction of them or the Destruction of us he understood what it was like to be a Human Being Rest in Peace Dan Blocker
Underrated actor known primarily for his great role in bonanza but dan is extremely cerebral and socially aware
Well yeah, Dan had a Masters degree and was an educator for a time
@@lenarrowseller2419 i heard that he also played college football
In view of what we are experiencing with Red China today it is clear that Blocker was sadly mistaken about the benefits of dealing with Communists.
US companies (Apple, Tesla)love outsourcing work to China. No regulation, slave labor and big profits.
It's clear you didn't listen to his reasoning about China
I was 15 when he died it was on my dads birthday. Our family always watched Bonanza Sunday nights. How we liked forward to it. My sister and I had our own horses ad always pretended we were on the Ponderosa when we went riding. Wonderful times. My mom s favorite character was Boss a gentle giant.
His nickname on the show was "hoss" , that is the countrified version of "horse "....why is it being written as " haas " ?
Edit:
My favorite episode was when "hoss " was searching for a leprechaun and little joe was teasing him.
My brother and I have reenacted the funniest part of that episode throughout the years and it makes us laugh as hard as we laughed when we originally saw it.
That's also our favorite good choice.
Hoss's mother was Swedish and named him Haas, that was the Swedish spelling for Hoss. It had nothing to do with the word "horse".
@@deedeegreen8338 his nickname on the show was "hoss" . It had nothing to do with his real name.
deedee green I didn’t know that .
@@ronniebishop2496 she made it up. Look it up or google his name . Dan Blocker.
I firmly believe Bonanza would have run to 1975 or later had Dan lived. His death was the death of the show.
I was quite surprised when I learned that Dan played football at Tarleton State college in Stephenville Tx. I knew that he was a native Texan from the panhandle.
Hardin Simmons then Sul Ross.
God bless you Dan Blocker and the cast of Bonanza, RIP.
I knew that Lorne Greene, Parnell Roberts, and Dan Blocker all wore toupees on Bonanza, but I had never seen Dan Blocker without his hairpiece. He is almost unrecognizable. But the voice is pure "Hoss"!
His son Dirk looks exactly like his Dad especially now I’ve seen Dan without his toupé. I love the big guy 🤠
Back then if you were bald they wanted you to wear a hair piece to cover it up
He is the main character I loved to see on Bonanza. The Big guy who made it right. You're loved and from the town of ODonnell, Tx. and your birth place of DeKalb, Tx. RIP Hoss!
It is very hard for me to see this big huge loveable intelligent man sit here before my eyes and talk about China as if they are our best friends. Dan smoked. He was a staunch Democrat from the old school. He served his country in Korea. He was a highly educated man. His opinions are of the times. I have to believe today, if he were alive and in his prime, his views on China would be vastly different. He fought the Communist in Korea mind you, but he was a fair minded man with pretty strong convictions.
Bonanza, in my opinion, was, is and shall always be, the quintessential western TV show. Every time I see the opening sequence with Hoss, Adam, Little Joe and Ben, I cry because these men represented an amazing time in our countries history. Each is gone now and I pray they keep riding into that sunset in God's piece of the sky called
"*THE PONDEROSA*"🐎🐎🐎🐎🙏
No, he was right. We couldn’t ignore such a large population. The U.S. just made some bad deals along the way. If we had ignored them China would have made deals with the rest of the world and who knows what would have happened politically. It would most likely be a more aggressive China due to wanting more.
The Chinese Communists unlike the Soviets were fortunate in their leadership. After Mao died younger leaders took over and acted with the flexibility that Lenin showed during the years he was in charge after the Revolution.
Dan Blocker was the big brother that I think that we would have loved to have in our families.Just my view.
Gosh this is the only interview I have seen of Mr Blocker he was such an incredible actor. I know he appeared on talk shows but there are none on You Tube. I grew up in the UK with Bonanza but only up to 1970 as I then left home to do my registered nurse training so did not see the last few seasons. Since we have been in total lockdown I have been catching up rewatching all the episodes again and it reminded me of very happy days of my youth. So whoever posted this thank you.
Same here. One of my childhood hero's.
Wow good old boy Hoss. I remember anxiously waiting to get home from church on the Sunday evening just to watch Bonanza
One of my all time favorites. ❤