Au Revoir, LeBeau

Bwifan

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Last surviving Hogan’s Heroes cast member, Robert Clary, has passed

https://ew.com/tv/robert-clary-dead-hogans-heroes-auschwitz-survivor/

I still watch Hogan's Heroes every now and then on MeTV at 10pm. Recently I looked up who was alive still and was sad to see only LeBeau was left. In researching some characters I saw most of them were Jewish especially the actors who played the Germans. Always thought that was a little ironic.... Alas we are all getting older and many of our childhood actors are now passing.
 

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"I Know Nothing", about this until you posted. Great tv show.

I know he was a Holocaust survivor though.

Shabbat Shalom
 
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I was a huge huge HH fan as a kid, even bought entire show on vcr tapes in the early 90s. Crazy to think that the actors playing the Nazi characters were Jewish.

There is a great episode on the background of the show's development on Revisionist History podcast.

RIP
 

GrimReaper

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I was a huge huge HH fan as a kid, even bought entire show on vcr tapes in the early 90s. Crazy to think that the actors playing the Nazi characters were Jewish.

There is a great episode on the background of the show's development on Revisionist History podcast.

RIP
Werner Klemperer's father, Otto, was one of the great orchestra conductors of the 20th Century.
 

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LionJim

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Klemperer would only play stupid Germans, never a good German. This is somewhat like Conrad Veidt, who would play only evil Germans such as Major Strasser in “Casablanca.”
 
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GrimReaper

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Klemperer would only play stupid Germans, never a good German. This is somewhat like Conrad Viedt, who would play only evil Germans such as Major Strasser in “Casablanca.”
Veidt was an interesting character. He was steadfastly ant-Nazi and because of his political stands and the fact that his wife was Jewish he fled Germany shortly after Hitler came to power. Among his first roles in British-produced films, he portrayed Jews.
 

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Klemperer would only play stupid Germans, never a good German. This is somewhat like Conrad Veidt, who would play only evil Germans such as Major Strasser in “Casablanca.”
You need to watch Judgement at Nurembourg . He played a very solid role as a character actor in that movie . Klemper was solid in that role .
 

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You need to watch Judgement at Nurembourg . He played a very solid role as a character actor in that movie . Klemper was solid in that role .
Yeah, seen it, forgot about that one. He was a fine actor.