(Ivan Dixon)'Hogan's Heroes' actor dies in Charlotte

wcnc.com ^ | Tuesday, March 18, 2008

[Charles Martel]

Leon Uris (Gen. Burkhalter) and Howard Caine (Maj. Hochstetter) were Jews, too.
Not unexpected in “show business”, but a delicious irony nonetheless.

[Callahan]

“Nothing But a Man” was playing on HDnet a couple weeks ago. Forgotten classic.

[Charles Martel]

Just saw him in a Twilight Zone episode, and I mean today

Funny how that happens.

[Cyman]

I also liked to watch the show as a kid but never around my mom who had been in a concentration camp in Austria. She hated the show. She simply could not stand to see Germans portrayed with any human quality especially humor.

[MinuteGal]

Robert Clary is 82 years old, and, I believe, is living in France.

Leni

[buccaneer81]

I wonder who’s still alive from that show.

Robert Clary (LeBeau), Richard Dawson (Newkirk.) I believe Larry Hovis (Carter) died a few years ago.

[buccaneer81]

First Arthur C. Clarke and now Ivan Dixon. What a day

They come in threes. Someone else we know will be gone in the next couple of days.

[buccaneer81]

a famous conductor - Werner Klemperer .

Werner was Klink. His father, the conductor, was Otto Klemperer.

[Tex Pete]

The show made a total mockery of all things Nazi. They were hapless dolts, constantly outwitted by their prisoners.

It was also one of my favorite shows.

[traderrob6]

Brother Serling could write.

[dighton]

All you can eat here.

[PzLdr]

Werner Klemperer. His father was a symphony conductor who fled when Hitler started tightening the screws. If I recall correctly “Col. Klink” served in the U.S Army in WW II.

[traderrob6]

You’re my hero, Thanks.

[21twelve]

Every day after school I’d get to watch Gilligan’s Island and Hogan’s Heroes. My old man would come in to do something and watch for a while. When he’d leave he would always chuckle and say “what a crazy show” or “those crazy guys”. Only until I was older did I realize what he, a WWII vet, had going through his head as he watched the show with me.

[wizr]

Carwash..George Carlin..”Have you seen a tall blond black chick?”..My favorite line.

[Political Junkie Too]

Leon Askin's thread got 77 posts.

Larry Hovis' thread only got 21 posts. See picture in link.

Search finds Werner Klemperer's thread, but it won't open for me.

-PJ

[bajabaja]

The actor who played French prisoner, LeBeau, in the sitcom, was reportedly in a concentration camp, and survived. Klink and Schultze (in real life) were Jews, though I think Werner von Kemperer (sp) had only one Jewish parent. He was a conductor, but I forget which orchestra.

It’s like Gorbachev doing a pizza commercial for the Superbowl.

That’s how we know who won the Cold War.

[bajabaja]

LeBeau, in real life, survived a concentration camp. Buchenwald. See Robert Clary if you don’t believe me. Klink ‘s Werner Kemperer had one Jewish parent, I believe.

[onedoug]

53! RIP. He was the cool one.

33 for us today.

[Wacka]

Werner Kemperer told the network that if they ever wrote a script where Klink actually came out on top over Hogan et al, that he would quit on the spot. The only way he'd do it is if the Nazis were buffoons.