89 years old ... Hits keep.coming. known as SGT Baker on Hogans Heroes took over for Sgt Kinchloe ... Lasted 1 year on the series before the show was cancelled
RIP Ken Washington ... Last surviving cast member of Hogans Heroes
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Kenneth Washington, Last Surviving Main Cast Member of ‘Hogan’s Heroes,’ Dies at 88
Kenneth Washington, who was the last surviving main cast member of the CBS series 'Hogan's Heroes,' died on July 18 at 88.
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Hands down my favorite show as a kid. Was heart broken when Bob Crane was murdered
M*A*S*H* - in the latter years - could have learned something from Hogan's Heroes. Don't take your subject matter too seriously. Unless your show is a drama, it becomes less entertaining.
I just quickly read about Crane’s death. Zoinks. He had quite the career in “film.”
I still watch it on MeTV at night. Show still makes me laugh. To me that is a test of time show and Hogan's Heroes passes that with flying colors.
Yeah he enjoyed the ladies and filming them. Probably never find out the real story of his death and who did it.
Based on what I read, his film buddy, Carpenter, likely did it. They just botched the investigation and waited too long to try the case.
The wild thing to me always was most of the characters who played the German military Schultz, Klink, Hochstedder, Burkholder were all Jewish. Would have been an interesting interview IMHO to see their thoughts in dressing up in Gestapo and German military uniforms.
Robert Clary (LeBeau) was in a concentration camp ands lost half his family in the Holocaust.
Malcom Gladwell covered HH in this podcast. Great listen...
Chutzpah vs. Chutzpah | Revisionist History
You thought that there was only one kind of chutzpah. Wrong.
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Latter years MASH is as bad as sitcoms can get. Just brutal.
Robert Clary (LeBeau) was in a concentration camp ands lost half his family in the Holocaust.
Malcom Gladwell covered HH in this podcast. Great listen...
Chutzpah vs. Chutzpah | Revisionist History
You thought that there was only one kind of chutzpah. Wrong.
Amazing to think about for them.. I know Clary often talked about John Banner (Schultz) lost most of his entire family in concentration camps.
Another great little bit of trivia... The bomber jacket Hogan wore was same jacket Sinatra wore in three movie Von Ryan's Express
That is pretty cool trivia.
The leather jacket worn by Colonel Hogan (Bob Crane) in the TV series Hogan's Heroes is currently on display at the Liberty Aviation Museum in Port Clinton, Ohio. It's part of a larger Hogan's Heroes display that also includes Colonel Klink's uniform and Sergeant Schultz's overcoat, according to the museum's Facebook page.
It's actually the same jacket that was famously worn by Frank Sinatra in the movie Von Ryan's Express (1965). The Western Costume Co. in North Hollywood supplied the jacket for both productions.
I still watch it a lot. Binge watching at times on Pluto TV.
They agreed to do the show on the condition that the Germans never won the episode.
I thought at least one of them served in the US military. I might not be right there.
Similar thing with Conrad Veidt, who played Major Strasser in “Casablanca.” Veidt left Germany because his wife was Jewish (he was a big star there). In Hollywood he was typecast (understandably) as a Nazi and he insisted on always portraying his character as a villain.
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I try to catch it on MeTV at night every now and then around 10
No evidence it was carpenter.
The wife whose pending divorce was a few weeks away got all the money.
Pluto (free streaming service) will have it on for several straight hours different times of the day.
I read they found blood matching Crane’s type in Carpenter’s car. The prosecution also believed pictures showed brain tissue in the car, but the evidence was lost.
Carpenter also happened to be visiting from out of town when Crane was murdered.
It may have been the wife, but there’s reason to look at Carpenter.
Crane may have had other enemies doing what he did. Who knows?
No proof of anything. The blood was not DNA tested at the time. When it later tested for DNA it was inclusive and then again later tested it matched an unknown male. The brain tissue is total speculation based on a picture. A decade after the murder a new investigator speculated their was brain tissue in a picture.
Crane and carpenter went to a restaurant the night before and there were no problems according to witnesses.
It was the wife. She got all the money. Money and sex are the two main motives for everything. Crane was divorcing her and her son was probably not even cranes. Crane had a vasectomy before they were married.
The other son believed the wife was involved. All the other kids got nothing.
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I always thought is was odd that Hogan had a dress uniform at the Stalag for the fancy dinners. No sure how a shot down pilot would have a dress uniform.
But to Ken Washington, there was never an explanation of his arrival or Kinchloe's departure. It was just a nothing to see here moment.
But to Ken Washington, there was never an explanation of his arrival or Kinchloe's departure. It was just a nothing to see here moment.