RIP Robert Clary

[OrangeXtreme]

Au revoir, LeBeau...

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

I find it odd/compelling/ intriguing (can’t really find the word) that his death camp background (that I didn’t know until I read the obituary) he had the stomach to act in a sitcom set in Nazi Germany, especially as it didn’t touch on the Holocaust and portrayed the Nazis as bumbling oafs rather than evil incarnate.

 

[CA Monk]

I don't drink or do drugs. Instead I am a passionate Hogan's Heroes-phile. This is my story: For the Love of Hogan's Heroes
Loved me some LeBeau: Robert Clary.
I suppose if you "lived/survived" for 31 months in Auschwitz, you can act in anything you damn well please.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

I don't drink or do drugs. Instead I am a passionate Hogan's Heroes-phile. This is my story: For the Love of Hogan's Heroes
Loved me some LeBeau: Robert Clary.
I suppose if you "lived/survived" for 31 months in Auschwitz, you can act in anything you damn well please.

Oh no. Sacre Bleu. Loved that show.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

I don't drink or do drugs. Instead I am a passionate Hogan's Heroes-phile. This is my story: For the Love of Hogan's Heroes
Loved me some LeBeau: Robert Clary.
I suppose if you "lived/survived" for 31 months in Auschwitz, you can act in anything you damn well please.

I’m with ya, just found it a compelling bit of information. Maybe that was his “revenge”.
As a passionate fan, who killed Bob Crane?

 

[CA Monk]

I’m with ya, just found it a compelling bit of information. Maybe that was his “revenge”.
As a passionate fan, who killed Bob Crane?

Likely his video porno cohort John Henry Carpenter.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Stayed at a hotel in Scottsdale in 2001 for the Insight Bowl vs K-State.

Crane's apartment was right around the corner.

 

[upperdeck]

he made it clear here

"I had to explain that [Hogan's Heroes] was about prisoners of war in a stalag, not a concentration camp, and although I did not want to diminish what soldiers went through during their internments, it was like night and day from what people endured in concentration camps."

 

[CuseFaninVT]

This is interesting as well.

Making matters even more bizarre, three of Heroes' funny fascists—Werner Klemperer (Colonel Klink), John Banner (Sergeant Schultz), and Leon Askin (General Burkhalter)—were Jews who survived the Holocaust, while Robert Clary (Corporal LeBeau) had been interned at Buchenwald and lost his parents at Auschwitz. Still, Clary, the only living member of the cast, makes no apologies. "It was well-written, well-directed, and well-acted," says the 93-year-old, whose concentration-camp tattoo, A5714, is still visible on his left forearm. "It was a great group to work with. Bob never said, 'Hey, I'm Hogan and I'm the star.'"

 

[MSOrange]

MeTV remembers Robert Clary with some of LeBeau's best 'Hogan Heroes' episodes

Tune in as we remember Cpl. LeBeau, November 21-23 at 10P | 9C.

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