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Werner Klemperer (1920-2000) |
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- John Banner, Hogan’s Heroes, TV, 1965-1971. The actor son of famous orchestral conductor Otto Klemperer, auditioned for Master Sergeant Schulz in a comedy riff on Billy Wilder’s Stalag 17 – while Banner tested for the Stalag 13 prison’s Commandant Klink. CBS liked them - but in each other’s roles! Both actors were Jewish and served in the US Army Air Force during WWII. They also co-starred in Safe Conduct, 1956, the 21st story among the many in Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Operation Eichmann in 1960.
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