Klink and was one of the show’s several Jewish actors who served in the American military during World War II, assumed Hogan’s Heroes would be a drama. But although loosely based on the 1953 ...

Hogan and his Heroes turned the tables in the ‘60s sitcom was by turning the officiousness of the Germans against them – first and foremost, playing the puffery of Klink’s “no successful ...

But in "Hogan's Heroes," set in the fictionalized Stalag ... The prison camp is overseen by Colonel Wilhelm Klink (Werner Klemperer) and his sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz (John Banner).

In addition to its great cast, Hogan’s Heroes also had great scripts. POW Colonel Robert Hogan was the main character while incompetent German soldiers Colonel Wilhelm Klink and Sergeant Hans Schultz ...

Werner Klemperer as he looked in the '60s on Hogan's Heroes and in 1996. Getty Images You cannot talk about Werener Klemperer's role as Colonel Wilheim Klink as part of the Hogan's Heroes cast ...

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 ...

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 ...