The military sitcom centered around a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during World War II drew audiences in for six seasons.

During its run, Hogan's Heroes garnered twelve Emmy nominations, two of which Werner Klemperer won for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Comedy, in 1968 and 1969, ...

During its run, Hogan's Heroes garnered twelve Emmy nominations, two of which Werner Klemperer won for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Comedy, in 1968 and 1969 ...

Bob Crane as Hogan and Werner Klemperer as Col. Kling.©CBS/courtesy MovieStillsDB.com One of the show's saving graces, according to Crane's son, Robert, was the fact that it was a prisoner of war ...

These clownish antecedents were possibly the real inspiration for Hogan’s Heroes. Nevertheless, Klemperer aspired to high culture. He had a late-career success in a 1987 Broadway revival of the ...

8 -- 'Hogan's Heroes' star Klemperer dead at 80 Werner Klemperer ... "It's so difficult for me to understand that a person would stop and say, 'God, how could he play a part like that?' ...

Werner Klemperer, 80, was a refugee from Nazi Germany who went on to play the bumbling German prison-camp commandant Colonel Klink on TV's Hogan's Heroes. He died of cancer this week at his home ...

the orchestra conductor Otto Klemperer (whose son, Werner, became famous in 1960s America for playing Colonel Klink on Hogan’s Heroes). There is one more important detail about Victor Klemperer: he ...