Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) [1] was an American actor. He was known for playing 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.

Colonel Wilhelm Klink (portrayed by Werner Klemperer) – Kommandant Oberst (Colonel) Wilhelm Klink is an old-line Luftwaffe officer of Prussian descent. He is gullible, cowardly, vain, inept, and often clueless.

Werner Klemperer as German Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the POW camp. He is completely unaware of Hogan's operation and is proud the camp has a perfect no-escape record under his command.

Oberst (Colonel) Wilhelm Klink is one of the main fictional characters who appeared in the 1960s television sitcom, Hogan's Heroes. He is the Kommandant of Stalag 13. He was played by Emmy Award-winning actor Werner Klemperer. Wilhelm Klink was born in 1893, and raised in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Werner Klemperer, everyone's favorite TV German Air Force colonel, was best known for his role as the bumbling Col. Wilhelm Klink on the comedy series Hogan's Heroes (1965).

Werner Klemperer, everyone's favorite TV German Air Force colonel, was best known for his role as the bumbling Col. Wilhelm Klink on the comedy series Hogan's Heroes (1965).

Dec 13, 2014 · Cast as the bumbling head of Stalag 13 (complete with monocle) was Colonel Wilhelm Klink, portrayed by Werner Klemperer – who was always being threatened with losing his command …. but for that “perfect escape record”, which his (supposedly) bright superiors had no clue was a figment.

Dec 6, 2000 · Werner Klemperer (Cologne, Germany, March 22, 1920 — December 6, 2000 in New York City) was an Emmy Award -winning comedic actor. He is best known for his role as Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the Hogan's Heroes television sitcom. Werner was born into a …

Colonel (Oberst) Wilhelm Klink is a character from the comedy series Hogan's Heroes, which Homer is a fan of. Klink is an Luftwaffe officer of aristocratic descent, who runs a German prisoner of war camp in the Second World War, with many American prisoners.

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.