| Hogan's Heroes |
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| Created by | Bernard Fein Albert S. Ruddy |
| Starring | Bob Crane Werner Klemperer John Banner Robert Clary Richard Dawson Ivan Dixon Larry Hovis Kenneth Washington |
| Composer(s) | Jerry Fielding |
| Country of origin | United States |
John Banner. Banner as Sergeant Hans Georg Schultz on Hogan's Heroes, 1965. John Banner (born Johann Banner, 28 January 1910 – 28 January 1973) was an Austrian-born American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Master Sergeant Schultz in the situation comedy Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971).
Clary became one of the last two surviving principal cast members of Hogan's Heroes, with Kenneth Washington (Sergeant Richard Baker, final season), when Cynthia Lynn (Helga, first season, 1965–1966) died on March 10, 2014. He is the last surviving original principal cast member.
Bob Crane: Life & Legacy: 'I Know Nothing!' Sergeant Schultz — Sidekick to Colonel Klink.
Werner Klemperer, an Emmy Award-winning actor in television, film and theater whose role as the bumbling Nazi Col. Wilhelm Klink on ''Hogan's Heroes'' dominated an eclectic career, died on Wednesday at his home in New York. He was 80.
Werner Klemperer, born in Cologne in 1920, built his career playing a Nazi criminal Emil Hahn on trial in Judgment at Nuremberg, and the mass murderer Adolf Eichmann in Operation Eichmann. Then, he was the bumbling, hyper-Teutonic, Colonel Wilhelm Klink in the TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes from 1965 through 1971.
(Bill Cosby was another.) While he reportedly left the show because he felt he was underutilized, and he considered other acting roles more definitive of his career, he didn't mind being recognized for the role of Kinchloe, his daughter, Nomathande Dixon, told The Associated Press after his death.
When Hogan's Heroes ended, it just ended. No “finale.” No closure. On April 4, 1971, CBS aired “Rockets Or Romance,” a Hogan's Heroes episode so unexceptional that Brenda Scott Royce's book Hogan's Heroes: Behind The Scenes At Stalag 13! estimates that its basic plot had been used 11 times before.
Stalag XIII-C was a German Army World War II prisoner-of-war camp (Stammlager) built on what had been the training camp at Hammelburg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany.
1 (UPI) —John, Banner, who played Sergeant Schultz, the rotund guard in the “Hogan's Heroes” television series, died Sunday in his native Vienna. Mr. Banner, who was 63 years old on Sunday, suffered an abdominal hemorrhage on Saturday and was taken to Sofien Hospital, where he died shortly before midnight on Sunday.
