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Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) 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.
Werner Klemperer was a versatile performer who played Col. Wilhelm Klink on Hogan's Heroes and Emil Hahn in Judgment at Nuremberg. He was also a violinist, a conductor and a narrator, and the son of a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany.
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- Cologne, Germany
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- New York City, New York, USA
Learn about the life and career of Werner Klemperer, the actor who played Col. Wilhelm Klink on Hogan's Heroes. Find out his family background, military service, awards, and musical achievements.
- March 22, 1920
- December 6, 2000
Sep 17, 2023 · Learn about the life and career of Werner Klemperer, who played Colonel Wilhelm Klink on Hogan's Heroes and won two Emmys. Discover how he escaped from Nazi Germany as a child, served in World War II, and became a versatile actor and musician.
Dec 8, 2000 · Werner Klemperer, an Emmy Award-winning actor in television, film and theater whose role as the bumbling Nazi Col. Wilhelm Klink on ''Hogan's Heroes'' dominated an...
Aug 5, 2017 · 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.
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Werner Klemperer, the character actor of theatre, film and TV who tried to shake his image as exasperated Nazi Col. Klink, from the TV series, "Hogan's Heroes," died Dec. 6 in his...
