Robert Clary, Corporal LeBeau on ‘Hogan’s Heroes,’ Dies at 96

The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 11/16/22 | Mike Barnes

[P.O.E.]

interesting life.

[Rummyfan]

Good for you! Have a great Thanksgiving!

[muir_redwoods]

“ I’m sure it helped that he didn’t play a very evil Nazi and Hogan outfoxed him at every turn.”

It was actually in Klemperer and Banner’s contracts that the Nazis always had to end up the fools no matter what

[Bonemaker]

👍

[UNGN]

My witchy Jewish Karen neighbor HATED Hogan’s heros when we talked about it in carpool, because “that wasn’t what Nazi POW camps were like”.

We were little kids and liked the show.

Robert Clary was in real NAZI death camps and he probably liked the show, too.

[irv]

Funny. I’ve recently watched quite a few clips of interviews with Robert Clary. He was a good man who found much joy in life.

RIP.

[irv]

The story goes that when Werner Klemperer was offered the role of Commandant Klink, he made one condition: Klink must never win.

[EinNYC]

RIP, little tough guy.

[MrLucky1966]

Clary was liberated from Buchenwald on April 11, 1945. Twelve other members of his immediate family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp; Clary was the only survivor.[5] When he returned to Paris after World War II, he learned that three of his 13 siblings had not been taken away and had survived the Nazi occupation of France.[3]

Makes me more proud my grandfather went from Omaha Beach to Buchenwald. He died when I was one year old in 1967, he served in the 83rd Ohio Infantry.

[MrLucky1966]

Leon Askin, who played General Burkhalter was also Jewish.

IIRC, the guy who played the Gestapo Major was a Jew as well. Klink and Schultz, I can't say they were full blown Nazis in the sent that the SS were or even Major Hochstetter was, maybe they were still party members but they were more like the rank and file Luftwaffe officer and non comm, just part of the military doing their assigned jobs.

[MrLucky1966]

Klink was played by Werner Klemperer, a WW II vet born into a Jewish family.

He was a very talented violinist too.

[skeeter]

I may be mistaken but I remember an interview with Clary in which he said Crane was the one conservative in the cast. The rest were all pretty liberal (for the time). Kinda odd considering how Bob went out.

[fella]

"Why did the Nazis tattoo arms? Was it just to humiliate?"

Identification, they were very meticulous record keepers.

[skeeter]

Ivan Dixon also directed a bunch of magnum PI episodes

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[nomorelurker]

” I was reading an article about Dick Van Dyke last month who is 96 now. He said he quit smoking when he was 78. That is the LAST thing I needed to hear lol lol”

OK I got 6 more years on the cigs, then quit and make 95.
Better than I deserve.

He was very good in “Mary Poppins”.

[Publius]

Dick Van Dyke started out as a dancer, and he still does a dancing workout every day. He’s also married to a woman half his age.

[jmacusa]

RIP ‘’Corporal Le Beau’’, Robert Clary.

Thanks for the laughs.

[jmacusa]

‘’willing to be happy’’.

A profound and very wise thing to say.

[cyclotic]

I’m 59 and act like an overgrown 12 year old. Summer 2021 I hurt my knee whitewater rafting in class IV rapids. This year I went skydiving twice.

Both first time activities.

Don’t act your age.