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10 Things You Don’t Know About Lorne Greene
This February we celebrate the centennial of our favorite Ponderosa patriarch with some little-known factoids.
More than four decades after Bonanza ended its year run as must-see TV on NBC, Lorne Greene continues to loom large in our collective pop-culture consciousness for his iconic performance as Ben Cartwright, proud owner of the vast Ponderosa ranch and sage father to three loyal sons — Adam (Pernell Roberts), Hoss (Dan Blocker), and Little Joe (Michael Landon).
Thanks to worldwide reruns of the enduringly popular series, Greene remains a beloved figure for millions of viewers — both longtime fans who were hooked from the uppstart and recent converts who were not yet born when Bonanza premiered in As Linda Greene Bennett notes in My Father’s Voice: The Biography of Lorne Greene (iUniverse, ), her affectionate in-depth portrait of her famous dad: “To me, he was a very private man with a public persona who happened to be extreme
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Dan Blocker was well known as an actor on the long running series, Bonanza. He was born Bobby Dan Davis Blocker to Ora and Mary Davis Blocker in DeKalb, Texas on December 10, He weighed 14 pounds at birth and is still believed to be the largest baby ever born in Bowie County, Texas. After suffering the effects of the Great Depression, in , the family moved to O&#;Donnell in West Texas, where his father ran a mercantile store.
He received his education in public schools until after his freshman year. He enrolled at Texas Military Institute in San Antonio, from which he graduated in the class of While at TMI, he served as class president, played on the football team and played in the band. He was a good student and besides athletics, he was a member of the Junior Historians Club and Literary Society and was also a cadet officer. After TMI, he enrolled at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene and played football. After a semester or two, Dan transferred to Sul Ross University
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Lorne Greene
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Lorne Greene, | |
| Born | Lyon Himan "Chaim" Green ()February 12, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | September 11, () (aged&#;72) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Cause&#;of death | Pneumonia |
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| Spouse(s) | Rita Hands (&#;&#; ) Nancy Deale (December 17, &#;&#; September 11, ; his death) |
| Children | Belinda Susan Bennet (née Greene) Charles Greene Gillian Dania Greene |
Lorne Greene (February 12, – September 11, ), was a Canadian actor and singer.
Career
[change | change source]Greene was born on February 12, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His first movie was Churchill's Island (), as narrator. He was in films such as The Silver Chalice (), Autumn Leaves (), with Joan Crawford, Peyton Place (), with Lana Turner, The Buccaneer (), with Yul Brynner, and Earthquake (), with Charlton Heston.
Greene also had roles in some low-budget westerns