But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun.
I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.
I'm very surprised at that, yes, because there were many chances for it to be in Germany once the syndication market started and it continually just did not happen.
That may be your question. It isn't mine.
The fact that I have such a problem that people... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing.
Well, I don't know if we thought that was possible at the time, but we knew we had a good thing. We didn't actually quite know how long it would run.
When you mean a show like this, you have to say to me a show exactly like this, the way it was done.
You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.
Klemperer first acted professionally at the Pasadena Playhouse in a production of The Trojan Horse.
Werner Klemperer's immediate family includes his daughter Erika Klemperer Webster, son Mark, and sister Lotte.
When CBS offered Klemperer the role of Colonel Klink in "Hogan's Heroes," he agreed only if Klink would never succeed in any of his schemes to undermine the Allies.
Klemperer played in the violin section of the November 8, 1964 New Philharmonic Orchestra's Otto Klemperer-- Beethoven Symphony No. 9.
From 1970 to 1978, Klemperer owned a Mercedes Benz 6.9 V8. When parked on the set of Hogan's Heroes, Bob Crane always joked about it being "The Colonel's staff car". Klemperer sold the car after Crane's murder, stating that it brought back too many memories of their friendship.
Klemperer's film credits included Death of a Scoundrel, The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, The Goddess, Judgment at Nuremburg, and Ship of Fools.
Klemperer won two Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Klink on
Werner was half Jewish. His family fled the Nazi regime in Germany in 1933, and moved to Los Angeles, CA.
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