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Werner Klemperer, born in Cologne in 1920, built his career playing a Nazi criminal Emil Hahn on trial in Judgment at Nuremberg, and the mass murderer Adolf Eichmann in Operation Eichmann.
Dec 6, 2000 · Born in Cologne, Germany, his father was famed German conductor Otto Klemperer. During the mid-1930s, the Jewish Klemperer family was forced to flee Nazi Germany, and arriving in the United States, young Werner Klemperer studied music, becoming an accomplished concert violinist, and determined to be an orchestra conductor like his father.
Dec 6, 2000 · Biography. An actor who fled Nazi Germany with his family at age 13 because of the his father's Jewish birth, the USA-raised Werner Klemperer (like so many other emigres from fascism) ironically spent a good part of his acting career playing Nazis. Klemperer is perhaps best recalled as the monocled, vain, and rather foolish Colonel Klink from ...
Dec 7, 2000 · N E W Y O R K, Dec. 7 -- Werner Klemperer, a Jewish refugee from NaziGermany who went on to play the inept German prison-camp commandantCol. Klink on TV ’ s Hogan ’ s Heroes, has died. He was ...
Werner Klemperer. Kim Hamilton (m. 1997–2000; his death) }} Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) [1] was a German -born American stage, movie, and television actor and musician. He won an Emmy Award in 1968 and in 1969. Klemperer died of cancer on December 6, 2000, aged 80, at his home in Manhattan, New York City.
The actors who played the four major German roles—Werner Klemperer (Klink), John Banner (Schultz), Leon Askin (General Burkhalter), and Howard Caine (Major Hochstetter)—were all Jewish. In fact, Klemperer, Banner, and Askin had all fled the Nazis during World War II (Caine, whose birth name was Cohen, was an American).
Werner and Lotte. Otto Nossan Klemperer (14 May 1885 – 6 July 1973) was a German conductor and composer, originally based in Germany, and then the United States, Hungary and finally, Great Britain. He began his career as an opera conductor, but he was later better known as a conductor of symphonic music . A protégé of the composer and ...
