Who cares about the “on” part?
Well, Crane was, anyway. There’s proof.
Considering that Crane was involved, much more on than off, I reckon.
Oooh, yeah! 
Are you saying that Hilda and Helga appeared in Crane’s home movies?
Are you saying they didn’t? 
Watch the Crane biopic sometime. All your questions **will **be answered. 
I’ll believe it when I see it. That’s what I’m-a saying.
I saw Klemperer on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. IIRC he said he might not have taken the role except for a misunderstanding. He was given the impression that it was about a concentration camp and refused. When he found out that it was a POW camp it seemed so benign in comparison that he began to seriously consider it.
About twenty years ago I was reminiscing about watching shows like Hogan’s Heroes and Dragnet in syndication, and it occured to me for the first time that the name of the humorless character, Grupenfuhrer Freitag, was German for Sgt. Friday! The overhead whooshing noise was deafening, having been building up for decades.
I really enjoyed “Auto Focus” and the actor who plays Werner Klemperer could pass for his DOUBLE!
Ah right! My memory placed Carter in Newkirk’s role. I think at one point they had a whole rack full of uniforms somewhere in the tunnel or hidden in closet. Carter was a common trope of a simple minded or goofy technical expert.
I’d forgotten about Newkirk altogether. Dawson may have achieved the most post-Heroes career success on Family Feud. One of his early roles was in the movie King Rat, a small part at the end, you can barely tell it’s him. LeBeau also spent time on a soap opera (Days?), surprising to me when I ran across it on TV one day.
Kurt Fuller. He’s been in a ton of things. Currently in a reoccuring role role on Psych.
Looking at his IMDB page, it seems like he’s been in everything.
all this time i had been thinking this was a documentary.
next think you know someone will say Officer Muldoon wasn’t an accurate portrayal.
McHale’s Navy was an excellent documentary, as well.
Believe it or not, I once spent an afternoon trying to find the island of Taratupa on a map. :rolleyes:
All well and good for you armchair QB’s to cast aspersions on a fine police officer, but do you think for one minute you’d be able to handle it when, all in one day, there’s a scout troop short a child, but simultaneously across town, Kruschev’s due at Idlewild…
I did that when I was a kid too. I figured it couldn’t be too far from New Caledonia. Could have been any little island around there if it wasn’t fictional. At least they had a storyline for dropping Fuji when they went to Italy.
Fuji stowed away on the PT73, didn’t he? :dubious:
IIRC, he didn’t “successfully” escape; at the end, he was going to be transferred to a much more secure facility. I think the last two lines of the show were something like:
(Newkirk) If anybody can get out of there, he can, but I’d lay 1000-1 against it.
(Flood, in one of the bunks): I believe I’ll take that bet!
There were two escapes, but in one, Klink explained it away as, “Officially, I do not consider him a prisoner,” and in the other, Hogan convinces Klink that the “prisoner” was really put there by the Germans to spy on Klink.
I remember one episode where Hogan is looking for someone to play a German officer, and Kinch says, “How about me?”, to which Hogan replies, “Don’t be ridiculous!”
As for actors playing bit parts who would later become more famous, didn’t William Christopher (Father Mulcahy on MASH*) play both Allied and German soldiers in different episodes? I know Gavin MacLeod played a German officer at least once (he was stealing works of art from France), but can’t remember if he played any Allied soldiers or not.
No. They can’t even agree on his last name. (It’s James in one episode, and Ivan in another.)
Then again, an early episode took place on D-Day, which was in 1944, but later episodes took place in 1943.
Well, in one episode, they said he was a private in World War I; maybe he just wasn’t officer material. (Klink was a pilot in WWI, so presumably he was already an officer.)
One final bit of trivia: there really is a Hammalburg, Germany, and Luft-Stalag 13 really was located there, but its only claim to fame was that General Patton’s son-in-law was there at one point, and supposedly Patton went out of his way to try to liberate him.
Yeah. Once in Italy he joined the Japanese American troops there. One of the guys was his cousin.