I've never seen Werner Klemperer out of his Klink character which was totally amazing. He accepted the gift of the monalce so graciously....classy dude.
Mark Marsh- I've seen him in two other roles that always stood out, in my mind at least. In the A-List film, "Judgement At Nuremberg," where he played a Nazi war criminal on trial. And in the B-List film, "Escape From East Berlin," where he plays a civilian who moves in on a group of people tunneling their way from one side of Berlin to the other.
I heard a man say this on a radio show : He was on an elevator with a man that looked just like Werner. The man was trying to sneak a peak at him, when the door opened. Werner stepped out, spun around on his heel, saluted and said" Dismissed!" It was him.
I respect the hell out of Werner Klemperer. No disrespect to the later Bob Crane or his boys, but Werner and John Banner were what made the show great. What a classy and gracious man. RIP werener klemperer and the other dead HH cast members.
Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 - December 6, 2000) was a very talented man. He was an accomplished violin player. He is best known, however, as Colonel Wilhelm Klink: the bumbling, cowardly and self-serving Kommandant of Stalag 13 on Hogan's Heroes, which aired from 1965-1971. Klemperer, conscious that he would be playing the role of a German officer during the Nazi regime, agreed to the part only on the condition that Klink would be portrayed as a fool who never succeeded. When Klemperer's father, the famous conductor, saw his first episode of Hogan's Heroes, he said to his son, "Your work is good . . . but who is the author of this material?" In addition to the character's bumblings, Klink was also remembered for his horribly screechy violin playing, spoofing Klemperer's talent for the violin. For his performance as Klink, Klemperer received six Emmy Award nominations for best supporting actor, winning in 1968 and 1969.
Robert Clary told a story that Werner related to him about leaving Germany before the war. The Nazis put very heavy restrictions on the amount of money families could take out of the country, but Werner's dad Otto got in touch with his wife and said "get out, now." So she, Werner, and his sister got on a train that would take them South and into Italy. At the border, the Nazi guards came on board and started searching the luggage for hidden valuables or money. At this point, Werner's mom opened a bag and took out a large cake, put it on the table between the seats, and said "okay, now we'll have some nice cake." Werner said he figured she'd done it to keep his little sister calm while the Nazi guards were rooting around. A while later the guards left and they went over the border, at which time Werner's mom cut the cake right down the middle to reveal a bag stuffed with money and valuables. She put it in her purse and they ate the rest of the cake. He said he admired the heck out of his Mom for thinking of doing that.
It's a shame he died at 80 years old, and in 2000. I would've loved to see him on TV again, or even meet him, that would've been a memory I could treasure for life.
Probably the finest sitcom actor of all time! A real stroke of genius to have him portray Col. Klink. If anyone was ever perfectly cast for a character, Klemperer was the one. He was absolutely brilliant throughout the series. Rest well Col. Klink!
Don't think I've ever seen him on a talk show or simply appearing as himself before. Really enjoyed watching this and listening to him. Seems like a very intelligent and dignified man. The world needs more people like that.
A few years before he died he had a speaking role at the Philadelphia Orchestra one night. My friend had extra tickets so we went to see him perform. I then saw him in the hallway after the performance he walked right by me, I also most said “Hey klink , did you know that Hogan had tunnels all over the camp” The funny thing was, when he walked by me he had the same walk as he did in Hogan Heroes .
I met Bob Crane in person as young man at the Derby Downs in Akron Ohio where the run the soapbox derby at. A few years later he was murdered. I had him to myself for around 20 minutes or so before anyone else recognized him. He was wondering when someone would recognize him he said to me. He was wearing a tan trench coat, dress pants and sunglasses but he had on tennis shoes. It took me a second or two to really be sure it was then I just walked over to him and said hey you're Bob Crane aren't you? I asked him some questions about himself and Hogan's heroes of they were going to maybe do a reunion show but he said no since Sgt. Schultz wouldn't be the same. I was in the boy scouts at the time and we were there preparing the flag poles for the opening ceremonies. I got his autograph on a ticket stub then we were swamped by others who saw us talking plus he had taken off his sun glasses. I'll never forget it.
+Fallout3ProHunter It seemed like an hour it was probably more like a half hour to 45 minutes but I wasn't wearing a watch. We talked a long time that's for sure.
You're a lucky guy, getting to talk to the late Bob Crane. He seemed like the average, sex-crazed guy! I hear he was very heavily into porn and music. I learned this from the special on his death.
Witty, warm, and personable, Werner Klemperer was a wonderful gentleman. A true class act. Hogan’s Heroes was pure laughs, and one of my all time favorite shows. RIP Werner, you were great.
Great interview, such integrity in this man Werner Klemperer, and Pat Sajak does a good job interviewing and keeping the show moving. Thank you for the share
Thanks for posting this. Klemperer had always said that he would have refused the role of Klink unless the premise of the show were to mock and lampoon the Nazis. Also, as an aside, he says that his father, Otto, an symphonic conductor, "was really very good" is quite an understatement. He is considered by many musical experts to be one the greatest conductors of the 20th century.
This man so highly respected by me, I loved the interview and also that he embraces his past with the show. I loved with he tried on the monocle and waved his finger haha
i met werner klemperer walking around broadway theaters just looking at the windows outside broadway theaters. this was late at night after the shows emptied out. i guess the year was early 90's maybe late 80's.
What a lovely man. A huge part of my youth was spent laughing with him on that great show. When he talked about jumping at the chance to make fun of the Nazis, who could resist, really?
It is amazing that werner was able to so convincingly play a "dumbkopf" in his role as Col. Klink. He was so believable and yet we learn he was an accomplished musician, and highly intelligent person. Hogans heroes is such a well written show, it amazes me the number of gags the writers managed to put into every episode. I watch it on RUclips and it always gets me laughing.
I had the pleasure of seeing Werner in Cabaret in San Francisco in the late 80's. He made His character on HH look easy. An amazing guy to see in character.
My dad spent three years in a POW camp in Poland. With Dad was a WW1 New Zealand veteran. He pointed to the nearest hut in a camp about a half mile away being used as a storage depot. He said he had spent 2 years in that hut as a POW in WW1 and when he left had sworn he would never return to this god forsaken place but 22 years later here he was again.
Until now, I had never seen Pat Sajak as a talk show host, but I must say he did a nice job. He actually let the great and wonderful Col Klink talk...were as many hosts interrupt their guest on a constant basis.
Wow, thank you for posting that interview! What an interesting and charming man. Would have LOVED to have met him! Col. Klink is one of television's most beloved characters and he embodied it. There could NEVER be another Werner K.
He was the son of the renowned conductor Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) and Johanna Geisler (1888-1956), a soprano, a very talented man, with a sense of humour, being Jewish he somehow was able to play the part in HH
A real classy guy. Too bad many of the cast passed too soon. It would have been awesome to have a closing episode or movie to tie up the end of the war. All the cast were great and live on in the reruns. I have seen every episode a dozen times, but still enjoy them.
He was a classy guy, i have watched every epidsode dozens of time too, His character as Klink had me in stiches as well as John banner, would have been great to see a closing episode, it was one of the best shows of it's time and towers above most sitcoms today
Yeah too many of them met untimely ends. John Banner was dead within 2 years after the show ended, Bob Crane was murdered in 1978. Howard Caine died in 1993, Werner Klemperer in 2000. Larry Hovis died of cancer in 2003, Leon Asking passed at age 97 in 2005. Ivan Dixon died the next year. Sigrid Valdis and Richard Dawson both died in 2012. It hasn't even been 45 years since Hogan's Heroes went off the air, and only Robert Clary is still alive.
Larry Hovis ran the theater department at SW Texas University (now Texas State University) for some time after the show's run, Great teacher and actor, and a very funny and unpretentious guy whom I had several very enjoyable encounters with over the years.
I have occasionally toyed with the idea of writing a fanfic in which, about 1950, Hogan is working for the CIA. Schulz, who has gone back to run the Schazie Toy Company, gets in touch with him. Klink is trapped in East Germany and Schulz wants Hogan to get him out. He has valuable information that would make this worthwhile. So, Hogan puts the band back together and they go rescue Klink. Too bad I'm not really a good enough writer to do it. Anybody who sees this and wants to take a whack at it, feel free.
It may not have been stolen but simply thrown away in the trash, thinking it was just an old used cloth. He really was a very well spoken and down to earth guy. Something that's missing in celebrity famous fountain Hollywood these days.
Hogan's Heroes was my favorite show as a child. There was no fast forward, you had to slog through Petticoat Junction to watch it. It was not obvious to me then, but as an adult I came to realize that Mr. Klemperer was the star and key to the success of the show. Mr. Crane was a really good straight man setting up well written jokes which Mr. Klemperer executed with brilliance.
Petticoat junction was funny too, especially when they would ocassionally add in the characters from GREEN ACRES... I have both on dvd but HOGAN'S HEROES was my favorite
I was just a kid but I remember seeing Herr Klemperer in a live stage production of "The Sound of Music"....he played von Trapp's aide....I could not believe it was the same man I saw on Hogan's Heroes...May his memory be for a blessing.....
Werner.K was a very good actor. plus he's right about embracing the fame of Kline. Not being in denial like say William shattner. Werner.K you will always be remembered. rip
Who would steal his monocle? The thief knew this would cause Werner a lot of grief. Anyway, he was such an important character on Hogan’s, and played the Klink role perfectly. Very funny man.
"SHULTZ!!!!" The famous line. I have to say being 30 years old I still love that show. Yeah its way before my time but these were good t.v. programs. Unlike today's programs which are complete crap.
My father and I just started watching Hogans Heroes together. We are hooked because it is so funny! Such a timeless show.... RIP Werner. You played a great Colonel!
werner Klemperer was a german born jew whose family fled Nazi Germany.he did serve in the us army during ww2.i don't know if he actually saw any combat,or was in special services,but he did serve in the European theatre during that war.i read somewhere that he knew the Luftwaffe did run pow camps where they did actually treat allied prisoners humanely,and said hed only star as a commandant of 1 of those camps and would only play a character like klink!
Thanks for posting this; years ago (1980's ?) I heard a radio broadcast of one of the major American symphony orchestras performing Beethoven's "Egmont Overture", with Werner Klemperer providing narration... and I prize all my recordings conducted by his father, Otto Klemperer. He seems such a sweet and charming man in this interview; thanks for allowing us to see beyond "Colonel Klink"...
Werner klemperer narrated the finest symphony concerts, from Copland's Lincoln Portrait to Prokoviev's Peter And The Wolf, which I will cherish until my breath goes away.
what a nice guy he was, even when he played coloneral clink I could see the good in him, hogans heros would would have failed without his briliance''..
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I've never seen Werner Klemperer out of his Klink character which was totally amazing. He accepted the gift of the monalce so graciously....classy dude.
Mark Marsh- I've seen him in two other roles that always stood out, in my mind at least. In the A-List film, "Judgement At Nuremberg," where he played a Nazi war criminal on trial. And in the B-List film, "Escape From East Berlin," where he plays a civilian who moves in on a group of people tunneling their way from one side of Berlin to the other.
I heard a man say this on a radio show : He was on an elevator with a man that looked just like Werner. The man was trying to sneak a peak at him, when the door opened. Werner stepped out, spun around on his heel, saluted and said" Dismissed!" It was him.
I respect the hell out of Werner Klemperer. No disrespect to the later Bob Crane or his boys, but Werner and John Banner were what made the show great. What a classy and gracious man. RIP werener klemperer and the other dead HH cast members.
+Will Capuano it was the best WW2 documentary ever made.
I think Robert Clary is the only one still alive. Being a survivor of Buchenwald, he is a tough old bird.
@@odysseusrex5908 not any more😢. We lost him late last year😢
@@jenpeterson3712 Yes, I heard about that. Of course, I posted that quite some time ago. RIP.
It warmed my heart to see Werner outside of his "Hogan's Hero's" world. A fine, kind gentleman.
I lived next door to Mr. Klemperer in New York. He was a wonderful, wonderful man. Such a great actor.
Werner Klemperer was a seriously cool guy that deserved a ton of respect!!!
Cool
Werner seems like a very nice man. He did a great job as Col. Klink
He and Vincent Price were nohting like the characters they played.
I was lucky enough to meet him in NYC..years ago..and he was a very sweet and gentle man.
@@kevinbutler1955NYC Wow you were very lucky indeed. I remember seeing him in a couple Alfred Hitchcock's TV shows.
Right. Back in 1972. This was 1989. LOL.
I SO loved Hogan's Heroes. Mr. Klemperer was one of my favorite actors on that show. It was great to see him, after all these years.
What a class act Werner was!
Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 - December 6, 2000) was a very talented man. He was an accomplished violin player. He is best known, however, as Colonel Wilhelm Klink: the bumbling, cowardly and self-serving Kommandant of Stalag 13 on Hogan's Heroes, which aired from 1965-1971. Klemperer, conscious that he would be playing the role of a German officer during the Nazi regime, agreed to the part only on the condition that Klink would be portrayed as a fool who never succeeded. When Klemperer's father, the famous conductor, saw his first episode of Hogan's Heroes, he said to his son, "Your work is good . . . but who is the author of this material?" In addition to the character's bumblings, Klink was also remembered for his horribly screechy violin playing, spoofing Klemperer's talent for the violin.
For his performance as Klink, Klemperer received six Emmy Award nominations for best supporting actor, winning in 1968 and 1969.
Robert Clary told a story that Werner related to him about leaving Germany before the war. The Nazis put very heavy restrictions on the amount of money families could take out of the country, but Werner's dad Otto got in touch with his wife and said "get out, now." So she, Werner, and his sister got on a train that would take them South and into Italy.
At the border, the Nazi guards came on board and started searching the luggage for hidden valuables or money. At this point, Werner's mom opened a bag and took out a large cake, put it on the table between the seats, and said "okay, now we'll have some nice cake." Werner said he figured she'd done it to keep his little sister calm while the Nazi guards were rooting around.
A while later the guards left and they went over the border, at which time Werner's mom cut the cake right down the middle to reveal a bag stuffed with money and valuables. She put it in her purse and they ate the rest of the cake. He said he admired the heck out of his Mom for thinking of doing that.
Thanx for copy and pasting Wikipedia....we would have been never able to
Call 1-800-WaaaaaH.
It's a shame he died at 80 years old, and in 2000. I would've loved to see him on TV again, or even meet him, that would've been a memory I could treasure for life.
+Uilliam Coorinna it certainly is !
80 years old is a great run. One of his lines from an episode was all the Kline men lived to be at least 80.
Probably the finest sitcom actor of all time! A real stroke of genius to have him portray Col. Klink. If anyone was ever perfectly cast for a character, Klemperer was the one. He was absolutely brilliant throughout the series. Rest well Col. Klink!
One of the best comedy shows EVER ! Colonel Klink lives forever in our hearts.
Always a terrific interview. Werner was the best. Always loved Hogan's Heroes.
Hogan's Heroes is STILL the funniest show on TV!
+FilmForger Schuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuultz!
I hear nothing, I see nothing, i was not here, I DID NOT EVEN GET UP ZIS MORNING.
tied with Beverly Hillbillies
What about I love Lucy?
ALL of them are good!
anyone else still watching hogans heroes in 2016??
we do whenever we get the chance. it's still a pretty good show, shame every cast member died
Robert Clary is still alive
Your right, just looked it up. thanks, my mistake
I do, i love it
My professor showed this show to me last year I've been obsessed ever since
Born in Germany, fought in WW2 for USA. Respect
Love Werner Klemperer. Great actor and great guy. Sure wish that he was still here with us.
Except for gaining some weight, Werner barely aged at all between the last HH episode and this Sajak interview.
Love me some Werner Klemperer and John Banner
RIP, the Pride of LuftStalag 13
Fuggin A!
Rip.Hogan hero's..you all where simply funny..you mad me laugh💖💖💖💖😥😥😥😥
stalag luft
These shows and actors were so funny and they never had the filthy language or sick morals and they have never been topped in my opinion.
Klink is the best! He's the real hero.
Don't think I've ever seen him on a talk show or simply appearing as himself before. Really enjoyed watching this and listening to him. Seems like a very intelligent and dignified man. The world needs more people like that.
A few years before he died he had a speaking role at the Philadelphia Orchestra one night. My friend had extra tickets so we went to see him perform. I then saw him in the hallway after the performance he walked right by me, I also most said “Hey klink , did you know that Hogan had tunnels all over the camp” The funny thing was, when he walked by me he had the same walk as he did in Hogan Heroes .
I met Bob Crane in person as young man at the Derby Downs in Akron Ohio where the run the soapbox derby at. A few years later he was murdered. I had him to myself for around 20 minutes or so before anyone else recognized him. He was wondering when someone would recognize him he said to me. He was wearing a tan trench coat, dress pants and sunglasses but he had on tennis shoes. It took me a second or two to really be sure it was then I just walked over to him and said hey you're Bob Crane aren't you? I asked him some questions about himself and Hogan's heroes of they were going to maybe do a reunion show but he said no since Sgt. Schultz wouldn't be the same. I was in the boy scouts at the time and we were there preparing the flag poles for the opening ceremonies. I got his autograph on a ticket stub then we were swamped by others who saw us talking plus he had taken off his sun glasses. I'll never forget it.
+Lucas I agree. He is the ultimate Sgt. Schultz.
Ya said you had him for an hour on another video, what gives?
+Fallout3ProHunter It seemed like an hour it was probably more like a half hour to 45 minutes but I wasn't wearing a watch. We talked a long time that's for sure.
You're a lucky guy, getting to talk to the late Bob Crane. He seemed like the average, sex-crazed guy! I hear he was very heavily into porn and music. I learned this from the special on his death.
+John Dearing very cool
He seems like a very nice man. RIP Werner.
How can you not love this man. Honor to meet you sir.
Witty, warm, and personable, Werner Klemperer was a wonderful gentleman. A true class act. Hogan’s Heroes was pure laughs, and one of my all time favorite shows. RIP Werner, you were great.
I met Werner Klemperer at the lyric opera house in Chicago in 1976. he was very nice
Great interview, such integrity in this man Werner Klemperer, and Pat Sajak does a good job interviewing and keeping the show moving. Thank you for the share
Thanks for posting this. Klemperer had always said that he would have refused the role of Klink unless the premise of the show were to mock and lampoon the Nazis.
Also, as an aside, he says that his father, Otto, an symphonic conductor, "was really very good" is quite an understatement. He is considered by many musical experts to be one the greatest conductors of the 20th century.
One of the best shows ever, after school on the lounge, watching Hogan's Hero's👍
This man so highly respected by me, I loved the interview and also that he embraces his past with the show. I loved with he tried on the monocle and waved his finger haha
Absolutely wonderful,. A truly great man. Thank you so much for bringing back the great memories.
i was young kid when Hogans Heroes First aired and threw the Decades still watch them Occasionally Major Hochstetter he is one of my favorites
i met werner klemperer walking around broadway theaters just looking at the windows outside broadway theaters. this was late at night after the shows emptied out. i guess the year was early 90's maybe late 80's.
What a class act. Sadly missing in a lot of performers today.
What a lovely man. A huge part of my youth was spent laughing with him on that great show. When he talked about jumping at the chance to make fun of the Nazis, who could resist, really?
It is amazing that werner was able to so convincingly play a "dumbkopf" in his role as Col. Klink. He was so believable and yet we learn he was an accomplished musician, and highly intelligent person.
Hogans heroes is such a well written show, it amazes me the number of gags the writers managed to put into every episode.
I watch it on RUclips and it always gets me laughing.
I had the pleasure of seeing Werner in Cabaret in San Francisco in the late 80's. He made His character on HH look easy. An amazing guy to see in character.
Love that show...Have watched the entire series from beginning to end at least 2 dozen times..
My dad spent three years in a POW camp in Poland. With Dad was a WW1 New Zealand veteran. He pointed to the nearest hut in a camp about a half mile away being used as a storage depot. He said he had spent 2 years in that hut as a POW in WW1 and when he left had sworn he would never return to this god forsaken place but 22 years later here he was again.
Werner is very modest of his father being a 'very good' conductor--Otto Klemperer was one of the best conductors of all time.
Cheers to you for knowing that!!!
Colonel Klink was just hilarious on that show. I still love to watch reruns whenever available. Perfect casting!!
It's a shame that someone would steal such a treasured memento from him. It surely meant very much to him and to the thief nothing but personal gain.
Wonder if the thief brings it to Pawn Stars. 😕
Until now, I had never seen Pat Sajak as a talk show host, but I must say he did a nice job. He actually let the great and wonderful Col Klink talk...were as many hosts interrupt their guest on a constant basis.
I noticed he said "Indian giver". If he'd said that today, the usual suspects would go apeshit.
I loved Hogan's Heroes. Perfect cast.
1972, I was still a toddler when it ended.
But I became a fan by watching the reruns.
So his dad was... Maestro OTTO KLEMPERER??? My GOD, I never made the connection!!! (Duh!).
Yes and Werner plays a mean violin.
+Ronbo710 This I can definitely believe! I would love recordings of Werner playing the violin!
+Robert Littlejohn I should've looked it up myself. Good move!
Werner Klemperer was a beautiful soul. R.I.P good man.
Wow, thank you for posting that interview! What an interesting and charming man. Would have LOVED to have met him! Col. Klink is one of television's most beloved characters and he embodied it. There could NEVER be another Werner K.
It’s amazing.
As soon as he receives the monocle, he immediately went into his Klink!
He was the son of the renowned conductor Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) and Johanna Geisler (1888-1956), a soprano, a very talented man, with a sense of humour, being Jewish he somehow was able to play the part in HH
Still watching...Love this show and what an incredible cast!
A real classy guy. Too bad many of the cast passed too soon. It would have been awesome to have a closing episode or movie to tie up the end of the war. All the cast were great and live on in the reruns. I have seen every episode a dozen times, but still enjoy them.
He was a classy guy, i have watched every epidsode dozens of time too, His character as Klink had me in stiches as well as John banner, would have been great to see a closing episode, it was one of the best shows of it's time and towers above most sitcoms today
Yeah too many of them met untimely ends. John Banner was dead within 2 years after the show ended, Bob Crane was murdered in 1978. Howard Caine died in 1993, Werner Klemperer in 2000. Larry Hovis died of cancer in 2003, Leon Asking passed at age 97 in 2005. Ivan Dixon died the next year. Sigrid Valdis and Richard Dawson both died in 2012. It hasn't even been 45 years since Hogan's Heroes went off the air, and only Robert Clary is still alive.
Will Capuano according to wiki Robert Clary is 89!
Larry Hovis ran the theater department at SW Texas University (now Texas State University) for some time after the show's run, Great teacher and actor, and a very funny and unpretentious guy whom I had several very enjoyable encounters with over the years.
I have occasionally toyed with the idea of writing a fanfic in which, about 1950, Hogan is working for the CIA. Schulz, who has gone back to run the Schazie Toy Company, gets in touch with him. Klink is trapped in East Germany and Schulz wants Hogan to get him out. He has valuable information that would make this worthwhile. So, Hogan puts the band back together and they go rescue Klink. Too bad I'm not really a good enough writer to do it. Anybody who sees this and wants to take a whack at it, feel free.
Very nice interview. Pat Sajak did a good job and Werner Klemperer was very interesting.
Well spoken and such a sweet man, God Bless...
It may not have been stolen but simply thrown away in the trash, thinking it was just an old used cloth.
He really was a very well spoken and down to earth guy. Something that's missing in celebrity famous fountain Hollywood these days.
No way it was mistaken for garbage, someone gotta prize for themselves or sold it. Some guy is showing it to his friends, I'd bet on it.
too heavy for that
Hogan's Heroes was my favorite show as a child. There was no fast forward, you had to slog through Petticoat Junction to watch it. It was not obvious to me then, but as an adult I came to realize that Mr. Klemperer was the star and key to the success of the show. Mr. Crane was a really good straight man setting up well written jokes which Mr. Klemperer executed with brilliance.
i am 65 and i know exactly what u mean, "slog"
Petticoat junction was funny too, especially when they would ocassionally add in the characters from GREEN ACRES... I have both on dvd but HOGAN'S HEROES was my favorite
This is the first time I've seen Werner Klemperer interviewed and he seems a pretty genuine sort of guy. He was so funny in the show.
On the show, I was scared of him, thought he was mean. Schultzie now he was a cuddly ignorant bear.
I was just a kid but I remember seeing Herr Klemperer in a live stage production of "The Sound of Music"....he played von Trapp's aide....I could not believe it was the same man I saw on Hogan's Heroes...May his memory be for a blessing.....
Werner Klemperer was a "Class Act" and a Very Cool Guy!
awww. we watched hogan's heroes growing up and we loved klink.. he was a riot.. very sweet man i see..
Werner.K was a very good actor. plus he's right about embracing the fame of Kline. Not being in denial like say William shattner. Werner.K you will always be remembered. rip
I hope the guy who took his original monocle sees this and feels bad for himself.
His comedic acting was genius.
A Truly classy person, not only as an actor, but conductor. You will be missed Col Klink.
Werner Klemperer was a very astute, educated gentleman.
Quite the converse of his character " Colonel Klink."
Excellent posting and 5 stars to Mr. Klemperer!
In todays America a clever sitcom like this could never happen. We seem to be losing our rights....little by little...censor by censor...
Wrong. The Office and Parks and Recreation were very clever and funny. Lots of good shows since then.
You know what i mean, and if you dont, then you arnt too clever.
I don't think he knows what you mean - but I do.
TheCanadianBiker; OMG, the SJWs would lose their ever loving minds
poor you, need a tissue? Feel like crying some more?
I was going to open up a Greek Restaurant and call it 'Hogan's Gyros.'
There is a sandwich shop named "Logan's Heroes" in Logan, UT
Schultz, bring my schnapps.
Werner Klemperer was a class act and understanding the irony, probably never used the phrase "indian giver".
I have seen all of them and still love the TV show classic
Is it just me, or was Mr. Klemperer just pure class.
Who would steal his monocle? The thief knew this would cause Werner a lot of grief. Anyway, he was such an important character on Hogan’s, and played the Klink role perfectly. Very funny man.
Hogans Heroes was the best WW2 documentary.
Rest in peace all round mensch and hilarious artist, Werner Klemperer, thanks for all the laughs.
"SHULTZ!!!!" The famous line. I have to say being 30 years old I still love that show. Yeah its way before my time but these were good t.v. programs. Unlike today's programs which are complete crap.
No disrespect to Hogan and his boys but the Gerry's rocked that show.
"COME IN COME IN" "YES HOGAN WHAT IS IT"
I love you Klink :) RIP xx
Thirteen years old, and loving that a channel airs Hogan's Heroes. MeTv Boston MA. So much Class. He's somebody that i'd like to have met.
I respect the hell out of this man.
My father and I just started watching Hogans Heroes together. We are hooked because it is so funny! Such a timeless show....
RIP Werner. You played a great Colonel!
What a legend Werner was. This guy made me laugh so much. Loved his acting
Class act. Wonderful man. Terribly missed.
werner Klemperer was a german born jew whose family fled Nazi Germany.he did serve in the us army during ww2.i don't know if he actually saw any combat,or was in special services,but he did serve in the European theatre during that war.i read somewhere that he knew the Luftwaffe did run pow camps where they did actually treat allied prisoners humanely,and said hed only star as a commandant of 1 of those camps and would only play a character like klink!
He seems to have a rare commodity in the acting world; honesty and humility
This show was one of the best ever.
Given that Werner is such a class act in real life - goes to show how well he could act in a bumbling role. Amazing talent.
what a lovely man and excellent interview......loved it....thanks for sharing this gem.
What a CLASS Act. I miss celebrities like him.
Thanks for posting this; years ago (1980's ?) I heard a radio broadcast of one of the major American symphony orchestras performing Beethoven's "Egmont Overture", with Werner Klemperer providing narration... and I prize all my recordings conducted by his father, Otto Klemperer.
He seems such a sweet and charming man in this interview; thanks for allowing us to see beyond "Colonel Klink"...
" Hogannnnn......"
If your not watching Hogans Heroes regularly your not living or laughing ,awesome show
In fact Robert Clary (LeBeau) is a Concentration camp survivor, (even has the Identification tattoo)
Werner klemperer narrated the finest symphony concerts, from Copland's Lincoln Portrait to Prokoviev's Peter And The Wolf, which I will cherish until my breath goes away.
the best show ever, I've been watching since 1967
He's one of the very few ACTOR that I truly appreciate...very best.
what a nice guy he was, even when he played coloneral clink I could see the good in him, hogans heros would would have failed without his briliance''..
Watching it now on August 12, 2024, Adelaide, South Australia.