A Game: Guess the TV character with biographical trivia

All of the following questions are about TV characters. (Note: It is about the characters themselves, not the actors who portrayed them.) First to I.D. the following wins a no-expenses paid trip to the Costco of his or her choice (not responsible for transportation costs or expenses incurred at said Costco).

Answer the following or feel free to submit your own. (All three of the following are WW2 related but that’s a coincidence.)

  1. He owned Schotzi, one of Germany’s leading toy companies, before his factory was militarized and he was inscripted into service as a non-commissioned Luftwaffe officer.

  2. He became the only American private to receive a medal from the Nazis for keeping “the neatest P.O.W. barracks in Germany”, but was proud of the fact that “I threw the medal back their faces!”

  3. (Two parter)- These two characters were played by the same actor-

A. He was injured in Italy in WW2, receiving shrapnel in his buttocks, before returning home to a northern metropolis and marrying his high school sweetheart whose maiden name was Baines. He faked his own death to play a joke on his army friends at a reunion, though the joke was turned around on him.

B. (Same character, different actor) He served in Italy during WW2 and returned to his small southern hometown with his Italian war bride. Long after her death he entered into an interracial marriage with a city councilwoman.

Your turn to guess or add.

Let me have a go at this…

  1. My guess is Col. Klink from “Hogan’s Heroes”.
  2. No idea here.
    3a. Archie Bunker
    3b. Chief Gillespie , both played by Carroll O’Connor. :slight_smile:
  1. Wrong (but very close)
  2. Hint: 25 years later the character was still a notorious neat freak
  3. a.b. both correct

1 is Sgt Schultz

I think, anyway. The line’s damn familiar, and Schultz is the only character I can think of who COULD fit it.

Yep. (This was revealed in an episode in which Schulz and Klink mistakenly thought the war was over and were eager to resume their lives; Klink, a former accountant, began sucking up to Schulz for post-war employment.)

  1. He became the only American private to receive a medal from the Nazis for keeping “the neatest P.O.W. barracks in Germany”, but was proud of the fact that “I threw the medal back their faces!”
    Felix Unger?
  1. Attended Siena College, Loudonville, NY – the place where I work. Hint: the show is currently on the air.
  1. Has a really hot daughter who has a thing for guys missing their left hands

Yep. (He was also the husband in the only divorce ever awarded in New York on grounds of pestiness.)

Raymond from Everybody Loves Raymond?

LOL. I should have realized “non commisioned” i.e. a seargent.

Al Bundy?6) His real name is Homer Deegan 7) “It all started at a little 5000-watt radio station in Fresno, California” 8) When he was a kid, he stole books .

  1. “It all started at a little 5000-watt radio station in Fresno, California”

Ted Baxter, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”

Harris from Barney Miller (who was the resident expert on everything until they brought in Dietrich).

Nope. It’s from a drama.

D1: 5-time winner of the Buckeye NewsHawk Award

D2: Had a pet armadillo named Clarice

D3: Was always seen wearing his brother’s shirt

D4: For a couple seasons, drove a Sunbeam Alpine

D5: Considers Kettle Chips to be the ultimate snack…for revenge.

Les Nessman!

Maxwell Smart

Sideshow Bob

D1, D4, D5 all correct.