Besides his title role in Hogan’s Heroes, Bob Crane was also a radio personality and a drummer. Below is the cover to “Bob Crane, His Drums and Orchestra” playing the theme to Hogan’s Heroes and the Theme to F-Troop on side B
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John Banner
John Banner as Sergeant Schultz
January 28, 1910 – January 28. 1973
Published obituary below:
Hogans Heroes on TV Guide
Bob Crane (Capt. Hogan) & Cynthia Lynn (Fräulein Helga) on the Nov 27-Dec 3rd, 1965 edition of the TV Guide
Remembering Werner Klemperer
Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) is best known for his role as the bumbling Colonel Wilhelm Klink, a role he only agreed to take on with the condition that none of Klink’s schemes would ever succeed and that he would always wind up looking foolish. Klemperer, son of conductor Otto Klemperer, was born in Cologne, Germany in 1920. In 1935, while he was a teenager, he and his family emigrated from Germany and settled in Los Angeles. He later served in the U.S. Army from 1942-45. He has 95 acting credits to his name, including an uncredited cameo appearance the Batman episode called “It’s How You Play the Game.” (below)
Stalag 13
Outstanding map of Stalag 13 by Corey Hatch, as presented in CBS’s show Hogan’s Heroes.
The map was originally hosted on the servers at The School of Computing at the University of Utah, but has since been deleted.
Hogan’s Heroes
55 Years ago today, a comedy was introduced to the television world about a group of allied “prisoners” of war, in a concentration camp, who ran an underground operation for the allied war effort.
The show ran for 6 seasons, from 1965 until 1971, but for some reason I thought it was newer than it was, as I remember watching it growing up in the late 70s, apparently as reruns. It is currently playing over the airways on MeTV.
Col Klink (Werner Klemperer), Sgt Schultz (John Banner), Hilda (Sigrid Valdis), Col. Hogan (Bob Crane), Carter (Larry Hovis), LeBeau (Robert Clary), Kinchloe (Ivan Dixon), Newkirk (Richard Dawson)