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  • Leon Askin, Werner Klemperer, Robert Clary ( happy 86th birthday today BTW), and John Banner were all victims of nazi atrocities or perecutions as well.  What an amazing cast!

  • Richard Dawson and Robert Clary are still alive. Of course those two would outlive everyone haha. Leave it to Newkirk and LeBeau to keep plugging on LOL

  • Only a few things.. All the crosses on John Banner, Werner Klemperer and Leon Askin, all these actors were actually Jewish. :) But, very nice!

  • What happened to Kinch'es replacement......Baker......fo­r the last season? I assume he's still alive then?

  • Sigrid Valdis's real name was Patty Olson and sehe was married to Bob Crane.

  • I loved this show!!

  • hilda used to be married to hogan in real life!

  • Thanx!!!

  • BAH!!! Howard Caine died 18 years ago today (today is December 28 2011, he died December 28 1993). Well, what I am going to do all through out today is watch movies and T.V shows H.C was in. I'm going to watch stuff like HH, Get Smart, Rat Patrol, Gunsmoke, etc. The one thing I am not going to watch is Judgement at Nuremburg because it makes me so sad to see H.C with a "dead" stare on his face and tell the guy "The hell w/ them and the hell w/ you". R.I.P Hochstetter (and everybody else)

  • @Hochstetter4Life "WHO IS DIS' MAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!?!"

  • Very kind. Thank you and Merry Xmas. :) Songs

  • What an awesome tribute to an incredible show. Each and every character was so memorable that to this day, I still quote many of them.

  • People have probably said this already, but that was beautiful!

  • Wow, thanks for this.  I have great memories of watching this show with my Dad. It's interesting to know the actors birth/death. They will always be apart of my childhood.

  • @clintonearlwalker What video was it that had the comment by Howard Caine's wife? That's so cool! As for Robert Clary, he wrote a very fascinating autobiography called "From The Holocaust To Hogan's Heroes". I don't know if it's still in print, but I found it used online. :)

  • I've loved Hogan's Heroes since I was a kid, & my love hasn't diminished as I've gotten older. I miss all those who have passed away & am grateful that Richard Dawson & Robert Clary are still with us. <3

  • @APearce41 I was thumbing through the "list of famous prisoners" from Buchenwald one night and I seen the name Robert Clary on it. The vid I watched just before this one had a comment left by "Major Hochstetter's" wife in real life posted 1 year ago.

  • One of the best shows on television. All of the main actors that are no longer with us will surely be missed. Thanks for sharing a wonderful tribute to these good men.

  • In some scenes in the german tanslation, the english "dismissed" is translated as "so ein Mist", which in turn can be tranlated as "crap" or "blast it" or something like that. But funny enough, the phrase fits to the movement of Klink's mouth when he sais "Dismissed" ;-)

  • Great memorial video. Now someone will have to make a new one to include Langenscheidt as well...

    Oh, and regarding Kinch: both the names Ivan and James were used on the show. In fanfiction, we tend to agree that his name was simply James Ivan Kinchloe :-)

  • i grew up watching reruns of this show lol

  • Wow i just started getting this show off Netflix and its amazing i cant stand the stupid modern cartoons and crap shows. This is good comedy that is great to watch all the actors that have died from this show will be missed dearly

    Rest In Peace!

  • Very nice.

  • A wonderful tribute!

  • I didn't know that they used dead actors on that show. Typical Hollywood liberals.

  • Curse my timing. I was introduced to Hogan's Heroes about a year after Ivan Dixon died. By the time I wanted to meet them, I found that they had all died.

  • BOB CRANE FOREVER!!

  • I liked them more when they were alive...

  • Great Tribute to those who brought us many laughs. Even the "Bad Guys" were funny in their own way. So long, we will miss you.

  • The film ~ (1961) "Judgment at Nuremburg" was a classic drama. Besides an all-star cast and music, you can see Werner Klemperer, Howard Caine, as well as (Folger's coffee's) "Mrs. Smith" and even a young William Shatner. It won 2 Academy Awards and was nominated for many more. Not a fun show, but deeply thoughtful.

  • A great series! I was in high school for part of it. I noticed "Gen. Burkhalter" (Leon Askin) in one of James Cagney's last films, I think it was the comedy "One, Two, Three!" playing a Coca Cola representative that was trying to import the cola into East Berlin, I think. Askin played a communist official who was on the opposite side of the bargaining. A memorable line was "Totally unacceptable - full of holes!" Great comedy if you can catch it.

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  • @banjocordian part3: Leon Askin was a truly likable person, and delivered the moving eulogy at Bob Crane’s funeral in 1975. He moved back to Austria later on in the late 1980's. He deeply wanted to return to his theatrical roots, playing Shakespearian roles. I sent him a note on his web-page at the time. Leon Askin sent me a heartfelt note back. I copied it & treasure it. Leon Askin was a superb character actor and a nice person. Again, I thank you for your post. Peace. Bear.

  • @banjocordian Part two: Leon Askin, whose real name was Leon Aschkenasy; born to Jewish parents in Austria on September 18, 1907. In fact, young Leon sang the requiem for Emperor Franz Josef in the city mall in 1916, after the Emperor’s death. In 1940, Leon escaped to the west and began a career as a character actor. Always playing the mean German or Russian, due to his heavy accent in English. Billy Wilder always referred to Leon as “Here comes my professional!”

  • @banjocordian Part One: Hi, I loved your post. You are 100% correct. One, Two, Three with James Cagney is one of the finest films produced during the Cold War, concerning the actual Cold War. Directed by Billy Wilder, (Screenplay by Billy Wilder & I..A.L. Diamond), from a Ferenc Molnár, play of an earlier period.

  • i believe the man who played Karl Langenscheidt died only a few months ago we have lost another actor who played in the series.

  • unforgettable series and people

  • i miss carter and his Hitler impersonation

  • Absolutely brilliant...

  • Howard Caine could of lived longer if it wasn't for his murder

  • @jorcastify I believe that is Bob Crane your are referring to, who was actually murdered. Howard Caine died from a heart attack.

  • @ECO473

  • @ECO473 Do you know how Hilda died?

  • @fh346 Sigrid Valdis (Hilda), who was Bob Crane's widow, died from lung cancer in 2007.

  • Thank you for this memorial

  • I think it's awesome that Leon Askin lived so long! A talented guy who broke at least one stereotype!

  • @Jermster17 Yep!

  • So Robert Clary still alive ?

  • @jermster17 Yes. He is live

  • Bahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

    

  • Thanks so much for posting this! I LOVED Hogan's Herroes. Such a shame so many of the actors died so young.

  • To this very day, "Hogan's Heroes" remains one of my VERY FAVORITE "Old-School" TV programs. After reading up on Bob Crane, and also viewing the movie "Auto-Focus" (based on Mr. Cranes life), I discovered that this man had some SERIOUS "Sexual Addiction" issues......issues that eventually destroyed both of his marriages, as well as his career & ultimately....his very life. Very painful "reality-check" on the various pitfalls everyone is vulnerable to in life....and the subsequent consequences.

  • why did u put a cross my some of the names if they were jewish?

  • I wouldn't have thought that Leon Askin would live to be 97 or 98 years old!

    Burkhalter arrives in Klink's office...Klink rubbing hands exclaims, "AHHH GENERAL BURKHALTER, WHAT A GREAT PLEASURE TO SEE YOU SIR!!"

    Burkhalter.."SHU TUP, KLINK!!"

    Klink.."YES, SHUT UUUP!"

  • Interessant ist, dass der dicke Burkhalter mit 98 am ältesten geworden ist ;)

  • Love General Burkhalter: "Klink, how would you like to spend next winter at the Russian Front? -- Sorry my General. --Shut up, Klink!"

  • Great tribute and yes, I had heard there were lyrics never used

  • Best show ever made.

  • I always like Hochstetter's two favorite lines. "WHO IS DIS MAN" and "vAT IS HE DOING HERE"

  • A nice wrap up of all the actors that are no longer with us. Thanks :) Its my favourite show.

  • Well done!

    Gut gemacht!

    DISSSSSSSSS-missed.

  • @Fersomling Danke/Thanks! :)

  • To them all, I drink. Salud amigos.

  • @alexzivo Yep! :)

  • @alexzivo Alive & well & living in Beverly Hills, California at the age of 78. The only other remaining cast member is Robert Clary, who is now 85 & living in Paris.

  • One mistake that I noticed is that Ivan Dixon played Sgt Ivan Kinchloe, not James Kinchloe.

  • @joanie134 Oh yeah, you are right! Sorry.

  • @slashimport

    The previous poster has it wrong, Ivan Dixon played James Kinchloe. In one episode the black actress called him Ivan Kinchloe, it's a famous blooper from the show that the directors didn't catch., here's a link with the casts names.

  • @joanie134

    Sorry but your wrong, Ivan Dixon played James Kinchloe. In one episode the black actress called him Ivan Kinchloe, it's a famous blooper from the show that the directors didn't catch, go to the IMDB website and you can find all of the casts names.

  • Surly would have been a shorter posting had they made it a tribute to the "surviving"

     actors of Hogan's Hero's.

  • Leon Askin {Gen. Burkhalter} was a Austrian jew who fled europe in the 1930's. He lost all of his family in the holocaust. Imagine what it must have felt like for him to put on the uniform of a werhmacht general.......

  • @papawx3 Apparently, the paycheck made the difference in his decision. Ya think? ;)

  • They all died pretty young, except the one guy 98 when he passed.

  • We miss you Bob Crane and the entire cast of Hogans Heroes thankyou for the laughs

  • RIP Bob Crane....I still remember your death!

  • RIP people. We could not have won the War without you.

  • @CoolasIce2 You do mean the real people in the war I hope. And not the TV cast. ;D

  • Leon Askin 98. What a great innings. Doesn't look like he did a bit of exercise??????

  • It`s so sad that Bob Crane was not only murdered, but the killer was never found :(

    We`ll all miss you Bob.

  • @MaxDamageProductions O he was found but even though they had his blood type, motive, and him calling the police at the crime scene to see if he was for some reason dead.. they couldn't trial him for lack of evidence

  • @ChaseSpeer Wow. I didn`t know that. :(

  • Perfect song for this tribute! I beleave that John Banner, died on his birthday,of an aortic anyerism.Bob cranes death was the sadest of them all, both being a murder,and that the killer was never brought to justice.

  • Thank you for such a great tribute, growing up it was one of my favorite tv series!

  • Watching these shows again, (this time on YouTube) sure brings back memories as a kid growing up and watching H.H's on TV. All the actors were still alive and performing for this show. I still have this "feeling" that I'm watching these shows for the first time and all the cast and crew are alive and kickin' ... Thank you for posting this tribute to our TV Friends.

  • By the way, it sounds like the Hogan's Heroes crew is singing the song in the video. I mean like Robert Clary, Richard Dawson, Larry Hovis, and Ivan Dixon. Anyone know if they were the ones singing it?

    Those guys were all such great singers. :) Gonna miss 'em still.

  • I love Hogan's Heros! I have watched almost all of them, and I can play the theme song on my Cello! :D What were the words to it? I heard words. Does anyone know what they were?

  • Thanks for making this! It is so cool! I love this series! My parents introduced Hogan's Heros to me, and I am now 14 and have watch pretty much all of them. We also have almost all of the seasons! :D May they R.I.P.

  • sympa comme vidéo, mais triste , bien que certains est quand même bien vécu .

    Le colonel Hogan a eu certains épisodes de sa vie assez glauque je trouve .

    Sur le net, certains souligne le fait que l'acteur "Lebeau" est été dans un camp de concentration étant jeune, mais c'est plus "étonnant "pour Shultz car lui aussi a été déporté, et il jouait un Allemand. Bref, merci pour cette jolie vidéo en tout cas :)

  • May they forever rest in peace. I think Robert Clary is the only one still alive.

  • @Arkatox Richard Dawson is alive too. They're the only ones left. 

  • @dawoool Yes, why do I keep forgetting that he is still alive?

  • @poke9998 I'm 13 and I've seen almost every episode. ;)

  • Great to hear again. 5 episodes are aired each week (Fridays) on Universal TV. WHAT A GREAT SERIES!

  • nicely done  thanks

  • nicely done  thanks

    now......disssssmissssed !

  • when i see these pictures i can tell wut episode they are from XD. Long live Hogans Heroes

  • RIP too all u awesome actors

  • hehe im the 40,000th veiwer

  • @silvr90210 Too bad you don't win anything.

  • Thanks for putting on this tribute. I didn't realize so many of the cast were dead. It's amazing the Burkhalter lived to nearly 100. Maybe someone has already put it here, I haven't the time to dig through all the comments, but did they ever catch the murderer of Bob Crane? Is Helga still iving? If not, do you know when she was born/died?

  • @KMW52 As far as I've read, Bob Crane's murderer was supposivly a friend of his by the name of John Carpenter, though there wasn't solid proof, he Carpenter passed away in 98, so its an unsolved case.. Helga is still alive, she is played by Cynthia Lynn and she is now 74 I believe.

  • Bel hommage,Richard Dawson (Newkirk) et Larry Hovis('Carter) sont ils encore en vie ?

  • Long live Col. Hogan, Sgt Carter, Sgt Kinchloe, & Helga. Let's not forget Col. Klink, & Sgt Schultz, Forever in our hearts.

  • wow

  • sehr schön, interessant und traurig.

  • im a big fan of this show but i cant find it on any channel

  • omg i never new all those people were dead

  • im surprised burkhalter lived till he was 97 he was a pretty big dude lol i talk alot.

  • you know whats ironic about col.Klink? in episode "the reluctant target" hogan convinced klink into thinking he was being hunted by the gestapo, and klink said "everyone in my family has lived to be at least eighty" and the actor who played klink died when he was eighty exactly! freaky huh?

  • I love LeBeau! It's funny he is one of the oldest actor in Hogans Heroes, he is older than Hogan!

  • Great job putting this together and great score, only need to update with other secretary - Hilda.

  • I love this show and im acually 15! imagine that a 15 year old liking this show? anyways my favorite character would have to be Col. Klink (Werner Klemperer) thanks for posting this.

  • @pokefan9998 Haha awesome, yeah im 15 and I LOVE this show!

  • Schultz will be missed "I Know Nussing!!"

  • fantastic show great actors just loved it......

  • they sure did they will be missed and i hope their show goes on forever!!

  • they went to the stalag 13 in the sky

  • What a great cast..!

  • This was SO cool! Very few people have ever heard the vocal version of the theme (which I found quite by accident in the late 70s in a used record store on "Hogan's Heroes Sing The Best of WWII"). Great work, a treat to watch and remember.

  • Thank you

  • what does the asterix mean by some of the names?

  • @tenyardrambo i dont know what you mean?!

  • for example: the asterix by John Banners year of birth it looks like this * 1910-1973

  • thanks for the hint, now i know what you mean :)

    i use the asterik, cause its used as an "shortcut" for "born" ;)

  • i guess frenchy is still doing soap operas?

  • No idea lol ain't that freaky fan that knows the age,where they were born or w/e .. just like it thats all.. lately i was never such a freak fan of anything.. i like things or don'T but im to lazy to fill my brain with lately usless informations, since if you do not know that much about something it makes the thing much more interesting :P however..

  • Is that the music of the english or w/e version? Well the german one is much better :p and here it isn't called "hagans heroes" here its called "ein käfig voller helden" wich would mean "A Cage full of Heros" xD or similar .. anyway i always luved Fw. Schulz xDD  and i needa say the world stands the other way around cause this was/is. the onliest Sitcom wich was really funny!!

  • @lovemylady89 - he we life in the street who is colonel klink - werner klemmper - born

    in colonge -köln

  • wow the General almost reached 100 years. God bless em

  • SS is not wehrmacht soldier, is diferent about wear, ranks ecc, i specified only this

  • Wolfang is a SS standartenfuhrer(colonel) not major

  • hey, thanks for the hint ;) some of us know that.

    but if we place value to reality we cant laugh about this great sitcom, cause this and other mistakes (that he's sometimes of the schutzstaffel, sometimes of the gestapo, that the heroes can impersonate as a german and some other things) of the production which we condone.

    we have fun anyway :)

    best regards!

  • @MrPanzergrenadier

    In the german version he is major. But nobody know is he a gestapo man or a ss-man

  • @lordsaddler89 so  they can learn that is astandartenfuerer

  • @lordsaddler89 @lordsaddler89 so they can learn that is astandartenfuerer

  • @lordsaddler89

    In the American version he is called Major Hofstater...not Colonel or standartenfuerer....usually as a member of the Gestapo. It was probably done this way to emphasize to American audiences Hofstater's inherent power over Klink even though Klink technically outranked him.

  • Love this show still!

  • R.I.P to them all!!! they were all so wonderful!! so sad that they're gone :(

    this was the best show ever... i hate how cbs got rid of it...

    also where did you get the song? i love this one with the words... ive tried to get it everywhere but i cant find it...

    awesome vid!!!

  • my father introdued me to the show i loved it! a great cast but i haved to say werner klemperer ( hopefully spelled wight)

  • What a great cast and I remember werner Klemperer as a regular patron at the Mayflower. Thanks for posting.

  • You're welcome! :)

  • Good idea. Bit of a quibble though. You should have used the star of david and not a cross for most of those actors.

  • yeah, but its pity: i dont have the original project file anymore :( but thanks for your comment and great idea :)

    and i dont know how to paste the star of david into the text field of windows movie maker, is the star available in the charmap of ms windows?

    cause all the text is not fixed on the image, its just a text-layer above.

  • It bears repeating this truly is a nice video.

    By the way I found it. on my MS Notepad WINGDINGS uppercase Y . Have a look at the histories of these actors in wikipedia.

    It's fascinating.

  • @Casablanca1939 I know Klink was Jewish in real life who else?

  • @tenyardrambo Schultz, LeBeau, Burkhalter, and Hochstetter were all played by Jewish actors. Robert Clary, who played LeBeau, was actually a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp as a boy. He and Richard Dawson are the only ones still living.

  • @dawoool would you known if bob craines 2nd wife is still alive?

  • @planthi80 Died in 2007.

  • @Casablanca1939 I was about to say the same thing. Sort of fascinating fact most of the actors in Hogan's Heroes, including the Germans, were Jewish. In fact, Robert Clary actually spent time in a concentration camp and has the tatoo to prove it.

  • Best show EVER!!!! its so sad to think that they all are gone now!! too bad they couldnt have made more but the shows they left us keep us all laughin!! those were the shows that made life good

  • I have all the shows. I watch them all the time. This show is great.

  • my dad went to the same high school as larry hovis(not at the same time) R.I.P

  • rest in peace! love the show

  • Best show I have ever seen=)

  • I'll miss that show... rest in peace, Hogan's Heroes.

  • vut is this man doing here!!!

  • Leon Askin lived to be 98? damn good for him, thats long time.

  • So the actors who did Carter and LeBau are still alive

  • no. the actor who played carter (larry hovis) died in 2003 :(

    but the actor of Corporal Louis LeBeau (Robert Clary) and the actor of Corporal Peter Newkirk (Richard Dawson) are still alive! ;) :)

  • My bad

  • The video description says "dead Actors who played on Hogan's Heroes". That's interesting, they didn't look dead!

  • I'm sure that you all that Werner Klemperer's father was the Symphony Conductor Otto Klemperer of the early 20th century.

  • yep, sure! as a fan you know it, of course! :)

  • A little side tidbit........................

    Howard Caine also played the part of Mr. Louis Morris of New York in the movie version of 1776. Some of the others in that movie were James Noble (SOAP and BENSON) as the Reverend John Witherspoon from NJ, Ken Howard (TV show White Shadow) as Thomas Jefferson, and William Daniels (the voice of KITT from the original TV show Knight Rider) as John Adams.

  • Howard was also the bartender in the original "Marty," telecast live in the 1950s. He played opposite Rod Steiger, Betsy Palmer, and Nancy Marchand. I believe both Steiger and writer Paddy Chaevsky won Emmys for that drama.

    As the bartender, Howard spoke in his normal voice, which sounded like something out of "Top Cat," really.

  • The only man whose still alive that i can remember from the series is corpral NEWKIRK & BAKER, just wondering. did ivan die or resign halfway through the series?

  • he left after season 5 to pursue other shows.(Ivan)

  • Ivan left the series after the next-to-last season to pursue a career as a director.  He was replaced by Baker (Kenneth Washington) for the final season.

  • Did you know, BTW, that ALL of the American airmen shot down and captured by the Germans were either sergeants or officers? It was USAAF policy to make all non-officer aircrew sergeants because they received better treatment than privates or corporals if they were shot down.

  • really? i didnt know that! thanks for sharing your knowledge :)

  • Brownie points to anyone who can name the actors who played Corporal Langenscheit and Captain Gruber, Klink's adjutants! ;-)

  • Also, referring to Hochstetter as "Major," as they did on the show, is not quite right. If he had been in the SS/Gestapo, his rank would have been Sturmbannfuehrer. (Just thought I'd insert a bit of historical trivia here.... :-))