Die dikke acteur HOSS wilde nog een landgoed/boerderij kopen in de heuvels net onder het canadian warfield, maar voordat het rond was ging die goede man dood.
Anders had Groesbeek nog een bekende/beroemde inwoner erbij gehad.
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Dan Blocker – Eric "Hoss" Cartwright
Dan Blocker as 'Hoss' Cartwright
Dan Blocker was 6-foot-4, 320-pounds[11] when chosen to play the gentle middle son Eric, better known as Hoss. The nickname was used as a nod to the character's ample girth,[12] an endearing term for "big and friendly", used by his Swedish mother (& Uncle Gunnar),[13] or a rib to his humiliating, failed attempt to break a horse.[14] In the Bonanza flashback.[15] his mother Inger names him Eric after her father. To satisfy young Adam, Inger and Ben agree to try the nickname Hoss and "see which one sticks." Inger says of "Hoss", "In the mountain country, that is the name for a big, friendly man." According to a biography,[7] the show's crew found Blocker to be the "least actor-ish as well as the most likeable" cast member. According to producer David Dortort: "Over the years he gave me the least amount of trouble."[7]
In May 1972, Blocker died suddenly from a post-operative pulmonary embolism following surgery to remove a failing gall bladder. The producers felt nobody else could continue the role. It was the first time a TV show's producers chose to kill off a major male character (though it was done twice previously with female leads- in 1956 on Make Room For Daddy, and again in 1963 with The Real McCoys). Not until the TV-movie Bonanza: The Next Generation was it explained that Hoss had drowned attempting to save a woman's life.
