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Watching Hogan's Hero's....... (Original Post) a kennedy Aug 2019 OP
Remember the good old days when it was the Germans abusing the Geneva Convention? dem4decades Aug 2019 #1
Lots 1966-70 Historic NY Aug 2019 #2
Robert Clary is still alive. edbermac Aug 2019 #3
My father was a dead-ringer for Bob Crane. Aristus Oct 2019 #11
Definitely a fun show world wide wally Aug 2019 #4
I SEE NOSSING! pansypoo53219 Aug 2019 #5
Many nights I watch an ep before turning in. Dagstead Bumwood Aug 2019 #6
You get no deride from me.....I still love it, plus not as many damn advertisements. a kennedy Aug 2019 #7
Werner Klemperer LessAspin Aug 2019 #8
I always hated that show. Maybe I was too young to get the concept of humor in a POW camp. nt Still Blue in PDX Sep 2019 #9
Ivan Dixon LessAspin Oct 2019 #10

dem4decades

(11,282 posts)
1. Remember the good old days when it was the Germans abusing the Geneva Convention?
Fri Aug 23, 2019, 10:53 PM
Aug 2019

Instead of the United States. Good times.

Aristus

(66,316 posts)
11. My father was a dead-ringer for Bob Crane.
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 10:53 AM
Oct 2019

His name, like mine, was Bob, too. So often, when we'd go out to eat and patrons near our table heard my mother call him Bob, there would be a flurry of whispers in the air, and on at least one occasion, someone came up to the table to ask my Dad if he was Bob Crane.

That stopped after Crane was murdered, of course. But people marveled at my Dad's resemblance to Crane until he died, too.

Dagstead Bumwood

(3,621 posts)
6. Many nights I watch an ep before turning in.
Sun Aug 25, 2019, 07:50 PM
Aug 2019

I was too young to have seen it when it originally aired, but reruns were a staple on our local UHF station when I was a kid, and I still enjoy it to this day.

Saw the black & white pilot ep a little while back, and Werner Klemperer's performance was amazing, and he was this close to playing Klink straight. He and John Banner were born to play their roles.

I know it's popular to deride the show now, but it will always be a classic to me.

LessAspin

(1,152 posts)
10. Ivan Dixon
Fri Oct 11, 2019, 05:23 PM
Oct 2019

Ivan Nathaniel Dixon III (April 6, 1931 – March 16, 2008) was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, for his role in the 1967 television film The Final War of Olly Winter, and for directing many episodes of television series. Active in the civil rights movement since 1961, he served as a president of Negro Actors for Action...

Hogan's Heroes[edit]
In his best-known role, Dixon appeared as POW Staff Sergeant James "Kinch" Kinchloe in the ensemble cast of the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes. "Kinch" was the communications specialist, a translator of French, and Hogan's default second in command. Dixon played Kinchloe from 1965 to 1970, the only one of the series' long-time cast not to remain for the entire series. Kenneth Washington replaced Dixon for the last year of the show's run, as a different character filling a similar role.

Film work and directing[edit]
From 1970 to 1993, Dixon worked primarily as a television director on such series and TV movies as The Waltons, The Rockford Files, The Bionic Woman, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, Magnum, P.I., and The A-Team. Dixon's first feature film as director was the blaxploitation thriller Trouble Man.[6] He also directed the controversial 1973 feature film The Spook Who Sat by the Door, based on Sam Greenlee's 1969 novel of the same name, about the first black CIA agent, who takes his espionage knowledge and uses it to lead a black guerrilla operation in Chicago. The New York Times wrote in 2008:
Although The Spook caused controversy and with suppression facilitated by the F.B.I., was soon pulled from theaters, it later gained cult status as a bootleg video and in 2004 was released on DVD. At that time Mr. Dixon told The Times that the movie had tried only to depict black anger, not to suggest armed revolt as a solution.[2]

Occasionally returning to acting, Dixon played a doctor and leader of a guerrilla movement in the 1987 ABC miniseries Amerika, set in post-Soviet invasion Nebraska.

He also served as Chairman of the Expansion Arts Advisory Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Dixon




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