Dan Bilzerian
A venture capitalist by trade, Dan Bilzerian (a.k.a. "Blitz") has made a name for himself as a high-stakes poker player, thrill seeker and, more recently, Hollywood actor. His lavish lifestyle, penchant for danger and carefree attitude has gotten him attention around the world as an international playboy. Bilzerian, 32, is a regular on the high-stakes poker scene, playing in private games with the rich and famous where every hand is more than most people's yearly salary. He has played in games where the minimum buy-in has been millions of dollars. Bilzerian is a relentless gambler who makes some of the most outrageous bets that are regularly the talk of the gambling world. From swimming across an alligator infested lake or jumping off a 90-foot cliff to simply betting on a random person's opinion or the flip of a coin, Bilzerian will take almost any wager. He made headlines when he competed in what has to have been the highest-stakes drag race in history, winning $385,000 at the Las Vegas Speedway. Bilzerian was driving a 1965 A/C Cobra and beat a 2011 Ferrari 458, which was considered at the time to be one of the fastest cars in the world. As an actor and stuntman, Bilzerian's credits include "Olympus Has Fallen," starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman, as well as three films to be released in 2014:"Lone Survivor," starring Mark Wahlberg; "The Equalizer," starring Denzel Washington; and "The Other Woman," starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Upton. True to his nature, Bilzerian spends his free time doing extreme sports around the world as well as training MMA, scuba diving, mountain biking, snowmobiling and racing cars. Bilzerian was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. Along with his brother Adam, Bilzerian invests in and manages business interests across a wide array of industries, including real estate, oil and entertainment. He enlisted in the Navy for four years and went directly into SEAL training. After completing 2 hell-weeks and 500 days of training, Bilzerian was dropped from the program for a safety violation two days before graduation. He received an honorable discharge and spent the following four years at the University of Florida majoring in business and criminology. Bilzerian left college after achieving significant financial success and focused his time on funding start up companies. Bilzerian divides his time between homes in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Diego.
Dan Bishop
Dan Bishop is a director and actor, known for Raptor Ranch (2013).
Dan Bittner
Dan Bittner is known for That Awkward Moment (2014), Law Abiding Citizen (2009) and Adventureland (2009).
Dan Blacka
Dan Blacka is an actor, known for Flipside, Invincible and Outsiders (2022).
Dan Blankenship
Dan Blankenship was born on May 23, 1923 in Nova Scotia, Canada. He is known for The Curse of Oak Island (2014), Forbidden History (2013) and The Curse of Oak Island: Drilling Down (2015). He was married to Jane. He died on March 17, 2019 in Nova Scotia.
Dan Blizzard
Dan Blizzard is an actor, known for The Snarling (2018) and CollegeHumor Originals (2006).
Dan Blocker
Dan Blocker is one of the true television immortals, having played Hoss Cartwright -- the heart and soul of Bonanza (1959) -- for 13 seasons, before his untimely death in 1972 at the age of 43. "Bonanza" was the most popular TV series of the 1960s, ranked #1 for three straight seasons (1964-65 through 1966-67) and spending a then-unprecedented nine seasons in the Top 5. After Blocker's death, "Bonanza" -- still in the Top 20 with Hoss after being #8 the previous year -- didn't last another entire season. The character of Hoss was conceived as a stereotype: The Gentle Giant. The 6'4", 300 lbs. Blocker filled Hoss's cowboy boots and ten-gallon hat admirably but brought something extra to the role, a warmth and empathy that helped ground the show. Personal accounts of Blocker testify to the fact that the man was gregarious and friendly to everyone. He brought that upbeat personality to the character of Hoss. Hoss originally had been conceived as dull-witted, but ironically, Blocker's professional acting career was assured after he moved his family to California so he could pursue a PhD at U.C.L.A. A native of West Texas, he reportedly was discovered while making a call in a phone booth while outfitted in Western garb, including a straw cowboy hat, his standard dress being a native son of Texas, soon after arriving in California. Even after being cast in "Bonanza", he intended to complete his PhD, but the great success of the series made that impossible, due to the workload of 30+ episodes per year necessitating a 7AM-9PM work schedule five days a week. Donny Dany Blocker made his debut on December 10, 1928 in De Kalb, Texas, weighing in at 14 lbs. He reportedly was the biggest baby ever born in Bowie County. By the age of 12, he already was 6' tall and weighed 200 lbs. (Towards the end of "Bonanza", he reportedly had ballooned past his stated weight of 300 to as much as 365 lbs.) A "TV Guide" story after his death reported that back in Texas, the young Dan once lifted a car off of a man after it slid off a jack and pinned him under the auto. "My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon to," Blocker said, "no good for a damn thing". His father, Ora Blocker, a poor Texas farmer, was hurt by the Great Depression that began the year after Dan's birth. Ora Blocker lost the farm and later went into the grocery business. He moved his family to O'Donnell, which is just south of Lubbock, where he ran a grocery store. His "no good" son went to the Texas Military Institute, and in 1946 started his undergraduate work at Hardin-Simmons University (Abilene, Texas), where he played football. It was there he fell in love with acting when he was recruited by a girlfriend to play a role in campus production of Arsenic and Old Lace as they needed a strong man to lift the bodies that the spinster aunts had dispatched up from the cellar. After graduating in 1950 with a degree in English, Blocker went east where he did repertory work in Boston. A 1960 "TV Guide" article says that he appeared on Broadway in the 1950-51 production of King Lear, which starred Louis Calhern. The draft soon ended his apprenticeship, and he served in the Army in the Korean War, making sergeant. After being demobilized in 1952, he attended attended Sul Ross State Teacher's College (Alpine, Texas), earning a master's degree in dramatic arts. He taught English and drama at a Sonora, Texas high school before moving to Carlsbad, New Mexico, where he taught sixth grade. He then moved his family to California, where he again taught school while preparing for his PhD studies. Blocker picked up bit parts in television, making his debut as a bartender in The Sheriff of Cochise (1956). His career rise was steady and rapid, and he appeared on many Westerns, including Gunsmoke (1955), Have Gun - Will Travel (1957), The Rifleman (1958), and Maverick (1957). He claimed his turn as Hognose Hughes on "Maverick", the comic Western starring James Garner, was the seminal role of his career. As Hoss, Blocker would often star in light-hearted episodes on "Bonanza". He was cast in the recurring role of "Tiny" Carl Budinger in the short lived Western series, Cimarron City (1958). Its cancellation after one season made him available for "Bonanza", which was "Cimarron City" creator David Dortort's next project. He had previously appeared on Dortort's Western series, The Restless Gun (1957). "Bonanza" debuted in September 1959, shot in color, and R.C.A. made color TV sets and saw the program as a good advertisement for its wares. The company sponsored the first two seasons of the show, and the sponsorship and R.C.A.'s ownership of N.B.C. was likely why it wasn't cancelled after its shaky first season, when it placed #45 in the ratings for the 1959-60 season. The following year, it cracked the top 20 at #17, but it wasn't until it was shifted to Sundays at 9PM in the 1961-62 season that it became a ratings phenomenon, coming in at #2. It was the first of nine straight seasons in the top 5. Once "Bonanza" was ensconced as America's favorite Western, Blocker and his three co-stars, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts and Michael Landon were paid an extremely handsome salary that eventually rose to approximately $10,000 per episode each by the time Roberts quit after the sixth season, its first at #1. Commenting on Roberts' departure, Landon said, "After he left we took one leaf out of the dining room table and we all made more money because we split the take three ways instead of four." Salary, royalties from Bonanza-related merchandise, and business ventures (Blocker started the Bonanza Steak House chain in 1963), and an eventual $1-million payout from NBC to buy out the residual rights of each of the three remaining stars made them all rich. "Bonanza" made Blocker a very wealthy man, but more importantly, it made him a television immortal. The series continues to be re-run in syndication 40 years after Hoss exited the stage.
Dan Boie
Dan Boie was born on March 21, 1985. He is an actor, known for Shorta (2020), Bedrag (2016) and Charmøren (2017).
Dan Bottomley
Dan Bottomley is an actor and director, known for It's Grimm! (2020), Some Adult Content (2020) and Peterloo (2018).
Dan Bradford
An actor and a new film producer, coming from a military and federal government background is now focused on acting and film producing full time. Dan was born in Edmonton, Alberta, to Yvonne Sutton, a social worker, and Eric Fayant. Dan is of Native Cree Tribe of Canada and English descent. His family moved to Vancouver, British Columbia when he was 7 years old. He attended Lord Selkirk Elementary School in Vancouver then eventually to Port Moody Elementary School and eventually graduating from Port Moody Senior Secondary School in Port Moody, British Columbia. Bradford got into acting while attending Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. Dan went onto a career in law enforcement while acting part time in various commercials, TV Series and Feature Films. He also did various background roles in films which most not listed on IMDb. While in law Enforcement, Bradford approached an Edmonton Production Company and spearheaded the TV Documentary, " Behind the Badge- Working in Aboriginal Communities" This aired nationally several times, a copy was distributed across Canada to every RCMP detachment across Canada, and eventually became mandatory viewing at the RCMP Academy for recruits. Bradford was credited as co-producer and creator which won him the Alberta Centennial Medal for his contribution on this project. Bradford landed his first role in a German TV series with Hardy Kruger (Sr) called, " Weltenbummler" in 1992 where he played a Mounted Police Officer. He then went on to land his second role in a TV Series called," Blackstone", where he played the role of the Band Lawyer in the pilot episode. Bradford was supposed to be the band lawyer on the entire series, however, a mix up by his agent at the time cost him the role for the remaining episodes and seasons. Also, Bradford was also given a written reprimand from his RCMP employer at the time, for being part of this TV Pilot as his employer did not wish to associate their organizational name to this film due to its controversial topics. Continuing his work with Placebo Love Story, he joined the cast of Isaac Thomas' controversial film as one of the lead actor's where Bradford played a corrupt immigration lawyer. After that he took a role on Kevin Matlo's debut feature film, Forbidden Playground, where Bradford played the role of Sergeant West, a detective with an interesting past. Dan went on to play the role of Dave, an under cover agent in the TV film Life Undercover. Bradford also played the role of a Mafia backed diamond dealer in the Czech Feature film called Gangster Ka bringing Bradford into the International actor status. He then went on to act in the Feature Film, Underworld Blood Wars, where he played one of the Lycan leaders along side with Tobias Menzies. Later the next year, Bradford went on to play a terrorist opposite John Malkovich and Orlando Bloom in the feature film, "Unlocked". Dan acted in his third TV Series, Crossing Lines, where he played a Romanian politician teamed against Donald Sutherland. Bradford then went onto play the role of George Malliband a shady business associate and first murder victim of Richard Kuklinski in his fourth TV Series called, " American Monsters". His fifth TV series, "Dabing Street', where he plays an American Football player, is aired in the Czech Republic. Bradford recently acted in his sixth TV series, "The Alienist" where he plays Holy Joe the priest of the Santorelli family. Dan has done dozens of TV Commercials, voice over narrations, and Corporate TV/ Documentaries also. He recently acted in his seventh TV series, a Canadian comedy called "Necessary Evil" written and created by Randy Brososky, where he plays the fierce demon, Mammon. A talented voice artist also, Bradford has also done various narrations for films, documentaries and commercials. Bradford just recently co-wrote three TV Series still in development. Bradford is based in Prague Czech Republic but works all over Europe, Canada and the US.