# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-blocker
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:37:05.400Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-blocker"
name: "Dan Blocker"
slug: "dan-blocker"
description: "Bobby Dan Davis Blocker was an American television actor and Korean War veteran, who played Hoss Cartwright in the NBC Western television series Bonanza."
tagline: "American actor (1928–1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan_Blocker_Bonanza.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1928-12-10"
deathDate: "1972-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.494582471376196
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump