Once every week for seven years on television’s Hogan’s Heroes, actor Werner Klemperer spoke the following line as the bumbling Colonel Klink: “Nobody ever escapes from Stalag 13.… ...

Initially, the idea for the comedy raised eyebrows. When pitched the series, both Bob and Werner Klemperer, who played Germany’s Col. Klink and was one of the show’s several Jewish actors who ...

'Colonel Klink' Is Dead December 7, 2000 / 4:46 PM EST / AP Werner Klemperer, a refugee from Nazi Germany who went on to play the bumbling German prison-camp commandant Col. Klink on TV's Hogan's ...

Colonel Klink might make third choice,” tweeted Taylor, seemingly making a reference to John Fletcher, Calgary-Elbow Wildrose candidate and a retired Canadian Forces colonel. Article content ...

WERNER Klemperer, the classically trained Jewish actor who played the bumbling Nazi Colonel Klink on “Hogan’s Heroes,” died Wednesday in his apartment on the Upper West Side. He w… ...

NEW YORK -- Werner Klemperer, 80, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who went on to play the inept German prison-camp commandant Col. Klink on TV's "Hogan's Heroes," died of cancer Dec. 6 at his ...

In the highest pop culture compliment, he reprised his role as Colonel Klink on the camp classic Batman and, decades later, as Homer’s guardian angel in The Simpsons.