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Dan Blocker

1928 - 1972

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Bobby Dan Davis Blocker (December 10, 1928 – May 13, 1972) was an American television actor and Korean War veteran, who played Hoss Cartwright in the NBC Western television series Bonanza. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dan Blocker has received more than 6,251,413 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Dan Blocker is the 1,960th most popular actor (down from 1,903rd in 2019), the 3,274th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,280th in 2019) and the 940th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dan Blocker ranks 1,960 out of 9,996. Before her are Steve Harvey, Rebecca De Mornay, Lee Young-ae, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dylan McDermott, and Tyga. After her are Choi Eun-hee, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Tate Donovan, Fiona Shaw, Diana Douglas, and Dakota Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Dan Blocker ranks 203. Before her are Horace Silver, William Peter Blatty, Édouard Glissant, Tahir Salahov, Yury Yakovlev, and Luigi Colani. After her are Nguyễn Văn Thuận, Nodar Dumbadze, Rosemary Clooney, Ara Güler, Alejandro de Tomaso, and Bill Mollison. Among people deceased in 1972, Dan Blocker ranks 93. Before her are James F. Byrnes, Lee Morgan, Paul Goodman, Leo G. Carroll, Ángel Romano, and Fulbert Youlou. After her are Joseph Paul-Boncour, Milton L. Humason, Robert Casadesus, Max Fleischer, René Mayer, and Lillian Moller Gilbreth.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dan Blocker ranks 3,274 out of 18,182. Before her are Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), Richie Ginther (1930), Dylan McDermott (1961), Tyga (1989), Eric Roth (1945), and Jay Rockefeller (1937). After her are Charles Duke (1935), Maurice Hilleman (1919), Lawrence Block (1938), Louis Farrakhan (1933), Tate Donovan (1963), and Richard Axel (1946).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Dan Blocker ranks 940. Before her are Michael C. Hall (1971), Steve Harvey (1957), Rebecca De Mornay (1959), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), Dylan McDermott (1961), and Tyga (1989). After her are Tate Donovan (1963), Dakota Johnson (1989), Joan Cusack (1962), Wayne Knight (1955), Jo Van Fleet (1915), and Kevin Peter Hall (1955).

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