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Dec 6, 2000 · Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was a German-American actor, stage entertainer, and singer. He was best known for the role of Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom Hogan's Heroes, for which he twice won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1968 and 1969. After serving in the United States Army during ...
Dec 11, 2000 · Werner Klemperer. Werner Klemperer, actor whose multi-faceted career included a memorable portrayal of Colonel Klink on the television series “Hogan’s Heroes,” died Wednesday at his home in ...
Werner Klemperer was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for his role in Cabaret. Get Werner Klemperer Email Alerts Be the first to get ...
Nov 7, 2013 · Kim Hamilton, an African American actress who appeared onstage, in films and on television and was the wife of the late actor Werner Klemperer -- Col. Klink on "Hogan's Heroes" -- at a time when ...
Werner Klemperer, an Emmy Award-winning actor in television, film and theater whose role as the bumbling Nazi Col. Wilhelm Klink on ''Hogan's Heroes'' dominated an eclectic career, died on Wednesday at his home in New York. He was 80. The cause was cancer, said John A. Anderson, his manager.
Dec 8, 2000 · NEW YORK (AP) — Werner Klemperer, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who went on to play the inept German prison-camp commandant Colonel Klink on TV's "Hogan's Heroes," has died. He was 80. Klemperer died of cancer Wednesday at his home in New York, said his publicist, Bernie Ilson.
Apr 1, 2023 · Werner Klemperer was a veteran actor who escaped Germany with his family prior to the start of World War II. Classically trained as a violinist and the son of noted conductor Otto Klemperer, he played Colonel Klink, the bumbling commandant of Stalag XIII on the 1960s television series "Hogan's Heroes," and was occasionally featured in the program playing violin badly.
