While Bonanza was still on TV, Dan Blocker (“Hoss”) died of a pulmonary embolism. His death eventually led to the cancellation of the series. The other leading actors Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts and Michael Landon have also already passed away. But two actors who were part of the main cast are actually still alive.Click to see full answer. Regarding this, is anyone alive from Bonanza?Pernell Roberts, the outspoken actor who played Adam Cartwright, the thoughtful eldest son on television’s seminal western series “Bonanza” and who was the last surviving member of the show’s original family, died Sunday at his home in Malibu, Calif. He was 81.Secondly, what years did the cast of Bonanza die? “Bonanza,” with its three remaining stars, continued until 1973, making it second to “Gunsmoke” as the longest-running Western on TV. Blocker died in 1972, Greene in 1987 and Landon in 1991. Subsequently, question is, how did they kill off Hoss on Bonanza? Only 43 at the time of his death, Blocker died on May 13, 1972, of a pulmonary embolism (a post-op blood clot to the lungs) following a “routine” gall bladder surgery. After Blocker’s unexpected death, it was decided that his character Hoss would be killed in an accident in an episode of the show.Is the Ponderosa Ranch still there?Ponderosa Ranch was the fictional home of the Cartwright family from 1959 to 1973. On September 27, 2004, Sacramento, California’s Channel 10 News reported that the Ponderosa Ranch gate closed permanently after real estate developer David Duffield bought the land.

ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7pLHLnpmroaSesrSu1LOxZ5ufonuotI6wn5qsXZ2usbzEp5ydZaSkerW0xGaqrZmiqHqwsoybpqeZnq%2BucA%3D%3D