[C. Edmund Wright]

(look at “Hogan’s Heroes” for that matter, where the actor Robert Clary, who played Cpl. Lebeau, had been in a real Nazi Concentration Camp for 3 years !).

Ahhh, that must be why Hogans Heroes was so realistic - damned near a documentary in fact!!

Just kidding - GREAT show! And FTR, the monocle and riding crop of Colonel Klinks? Those were affects that the actor, Werner Klemperer, added himself.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The point being, some of the cast members had more than enough real-life credibility to be playing those characters. Can’t say that about too many actors today, especially ones in ridiculous war films.