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From Köln to Bel Air|
Werner Klemperer was born 22 March, 1920 to the soprano Johanna née Geisler and the conductor Otto Klemperer, in Köln (Cologne) in the Weimar Republik. "Weimar Republik" was the name of the bold experiment in self-transformation by which Germany was then known. Otto Klemperer was the name of one of its leading transforming forces. (more...) LA is the place best designed to cause culture shock in anyone not from there. But for 15-yr.-old Werner, who was greeted at the station with his sister and mother by a chauffeur-driven limosine and whisked away to a home in Bel-Air, "it was like fairyland." (more...) He'd been told only that he'd be reading for the part of the commandant of a POW camp. Klemperer was stunned when he saw the script. Perhaps out of concern that this serious actor would reject such a part, no one had said anything about comedy. (more...) By the time Hogan's Heroes ended in 1971, Klemperer had made his mark so distinctively as to emerge forever from the shadow of his famous great conductor father. From now on, the cultural icon which would overshadow his career and by which he would be defined would be the one of his own creation: Colonel Wilhelm Klink. (more...) |
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Date | Show | Episode | Role |  |
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| 9.17.65- 4.4.71 |
Hogan's Heroes | Colonel Wilhelm Klink | ||||
| 1986 | Mr. Sunshine | Dean | ||||
| 9.14.64 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | Dr. Gamma | ||||
| 10.6.81 | Return of the Beverly Hillbillies | Charles Edward Medford | ||||
| 1980 | Steve Martin: Comedy Is Not Pretty | |||||
| 1988 | American Experience | "The Vanishing Frontier" | narrator | |||
| 7.11.90 | Live from Lincoln Center | "The Mostly Mozart Festival" | commentator | |||
| 1993 | Barenboim Conducts Strauss | voice of Richard Strauss | ||||
| 2.8.53 | Philco Television Playhouse | "The Reluctant Citizen" | ||||
| 9.20.53 | Philco Television Playhouse | "Holiday Song" | ||||
| 1953 | The Secret Files of Captain Video | "The Box" | foreign scientist | |||
| 4.5.54 | Studio One | "Stirmugs" | ||||
| 12.31.54 | The Red Buttons Show | |||||
| 2.19.56 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | "Safe Conduct" | ||||
| 10.18.57 | M Squad | "Face of Evil" | ||||
| 12.19.57 | Maverick | "Comstock Conspiracy" | Alex Jennings | |||
| 2.8.58 | Gunsmoke | "Sunday Supplement" | Clifton Bunker | |||
| 3.22.58 | Perry Mason | "The Case of the Desperate Daughter" | ||||
| 1959 | Playhouse 90 | "The Dungeon" | ||||
| 3.5.59 | Steve Canyon | "Iron Curtain" | ||||
| 5.12.59 | Alcoa Presents One Step Beyond | "Haunted U-Boat" | Herr Bautman | |||
| 10.4.59 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | "The Crystal Trench" | ||||
| 12.4.59 | Troubleshooters | "Tunnel to Yesterday" | ||||
| 1959 | Have Gun Will Travel | "Fragile" | Etienne Ledoux | |||
| 1960 | The Untouchables | "The Purple Gang" | Ian Tornek | |||
| 1.17.60 | The Alaskans | "Gold Fever" | Baron | |||
| 2.14.60 | Perry Mason | "The Case of the Two-Faced Turnabout" | ||||
| 4.3.60 | Overland Trail | "Vigilantes of Montana" | Arnold Braun | |||
| 4.18.60 | Alcoa Theater | "The Observer" | ||||
| 1960 | Rawhide | "Incident of the Music Maker" | Kessle | |||
| 3.19.61 | The Islanders | "The Pearls of Ratu" | ||||
| 6.3.61 | Have Gun Will Travel | "The Uneasy Grave" | Leander Johnson | |||
| 11.18.62 | G.E. True | "Man in a Suitcase" | ||||
| 1.8.63 | Lloyd Bridges Show | "The Wonder of Wanda" | ||||
| 1.31.63 | My Three Sons | "The Dream Book" | ||||
| 2.22.63 | 77 Sunset Strip | "Escape to Freedom" | ||||
| 3.25.63 | The Dakotas | "Trial at Grand Forks" | Colonel von Bleist | |||
| 5.9.63 | My Three Sons | "Total Recall" | ||||
| 1964 | Insight | "The Prisoner" | ||||
| 11.24.64 | Man from U.N.C.L.E. | "The Project Strigas Affair" | Balkan diplomat | |||
| 11.26.64 | Perry Mason | "A Place Called Midnight" | Hurt | |||
| 12.7.64 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The Blizzard Makers" | Cregar | |||
| 2.22.65 | Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | "The Saboteur" | brainwasher | |||
| 4.3.66 | Lost in Space | "All that Glitters" | ||||
| 11.30.66 12.1.66 |
Batman | "Come Back, Shame - It's the Way You Play the Game" | Colonel Klink | |||
| 1.5.72 | Night Gallery | "The Funeral" | ||||
| 2.28.72 | The Doris Day Show | "Gowns by Louie" | Joe Mell | |||
| 12.22.72 | Love, American Style | "Love and the Unbearable Fiancee" | ||||
| 10.21.73 | McMillan and Wife | "The Devil, You Say" | Dr. Ernest Bleeker | |||
| 12.5.76 | McMillan and Wife | "All Bets Off" | Van Doren | |||
| 9.22.79 | The Love Boat | John Perkins | ||||
| 2.25.81 | Vega$ | "Heist" | ||||
| 1.9.83 | Matt Houston | |||||
| 1.7.92 | Law and Order | Unger | ||||
| The Simpsons | voice of Col. Klink | |||||
| The Red Green Show | ||||||
| Politically Incorrect | ||||||
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 THEATER OPERA SYMPHONY |
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| Date | Production | Location | Role | ||||
| 5.47 | Heads or Tails | Cort Theatre, NY | Eric Petersen | ||||
| 1947 | Galileo | Maxine Elliot's Theatre, NY | Infuriated Monk | ||||
| also appearing: Charles Laughton | |||||||
| 1948 | The Insect Comedy | City Center, NY | Soldier Ant | ||||
| 4.50 | Lucky Sam McCarver | DeWitt Clinton Community Center, NY | Archie Ellis | ||||
| 12.50 | Twentieth Century | ANTA Playhouse, NY | 1st Beard | ||||
| also appearing: Jose Ferrer | |||||||
| 9.54 | Dear Charles | Morosco Theatre, NY | Jan Letzaresco | ||||
| also appearing: Tallulah Bankhead | |||||||
| 1964 | The Sound of Music | Max Detweiler | |||||
| various | The Sound of Music | Los Angeles & San Francisco Light Opera Companies | Max Detweiler | ||||
| 1970 | A Shot in the Dark | Ivanhoe Theatre, Chicago | |||||
| 1973 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles | Count de Guiche | ||||
| also appearing: Richard Chamberlain | |||||||
| 1974 | The Great Sebastians | Ivanhoe Theatre, Chicago | |||||
| also appearing: Eileen Herlie | |||||||
| 1976 | Slow Dance on the Killing Ground | Boston | |||||
| 1977 | The Night of the Tribades | Helen Hayes Theatre, NY | Viggo Schiwe | ||||
| also appearing: Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Eileen Atkins | |||||||
| 1978 | The Prince of Grand Street | Shubert Theatre, NYC | Julius Pritkin | ||||
| also appearing: Robert Preston | |||||||
| 7.83 | The Visions of Simone Machard | La Jolla Playhouse, CA | |||||
| 1984 | Hang on to Me | Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis | Peter | ||||
| 2.86 | Idiot's Delight | Kennedy Center, Washington | Achille Weber | ||||
| also appearing: Stacy Keach, JoBeth Williams | |||||||
| 6.86 | Master Class | Roundabout Theater, NY | Prokofiev | ||||
| also appearing: Austin Pendleton, Len Cariou, Philip Bosco | |||||||
| 87-88 | Cabaret | Imperial Theatre NY, Minskoff Theatre NY, tour | Herr Schultz | ||||
| also appearing: Joel Grey, Regina Resnick | |||||||
| 1990 | The Sound of Music | New York State Theatre, NY | Max Detweiler | ||||
| 2.95 | Uncle Vanya | Circle in the Square | Serebryakov | ||||
| also appearing: Tom Courtenay | |||||||
| (Johann Strauss, Jr.) Die Fledermaus |
Seattle Opera | Prince Orlofsky | |||||
| summer 77 |
(Lehar) The Merry Widow |
touring production | Baron Mirko Zeta | ||||
| also appearing: Roberta Peters | |||||||
| 79-80 82-83 |
(Mozart) Abduction from the Seraglio |
Metropolitan Opera House | Pasha Selim | ||||
| 1993 | (Beethoven) Fidelio |
Ravinia Festival | narrator | ||||
| 1993 | (Richard Strauss) Le bourgeois gentilhomme |
Ravinia Festival | narrator | ||||
| 1997 | (Schubert) Fierrabras |
Carnegie Hall | narrator | ||||
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Date | Production | Studio | Role |  |
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| 1956 | Death of a Scoundrel | RKO | Lawyer | |||
| Dir: Charles Martin Cast: George Sanders, Yvonne de Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor | ||||||
| 1956 | Flight to Hong Kong | United Artists | Bandesh | |||
| Dir: Joseph M. Newman Cast: Rory Calhoun, Barbara Rush | ||||||
| 1956 | The Wrong Man | Dr. Bannay | ||||
| Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle | ||||||
| 1957 | Five Steps to Danger | United Artists | Dr. Frederick Simmons | |||
| Dir: Henry S. Kesler Cast: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden | ||||||
| 1957 | Istanbul | Universal | Paul Renkov | |||
| Dir: Joseph Pevney Cast: Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers | ||||||
| 1957 | Kiss Them for Me | Twentieth Century-Fox | Commander Wallace | |||
| Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield | ||||||
| 1958 | The High Cost of Loving | MGM | Joseph Jessup | |||
| Dir: Jose Ferrer Cast: Jose Ferrer, Gena Rowlands | ||||||
| 1958 | Houseboat | Paramount | Harold Messner | |||
| Dir: Melville Shavelson Cast: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren | ||||||
| 1958 | The Goddess | Columbia | Mr. Woolsy | |||
| Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Kim Stanley, Lloyd Bridges | ||||||
| 1961 | Judgment at Nuremberg | United Artists | Emil Hahn | |||
| Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland | ||||||
| 1961 | Operation Eichmann | Allied Artists | Adolf Eichmann | |||
| Dir: R.G. Springsteen Cast: Ruta Lee, John Banner | ||||||
| 1962 | Escape from East Berlin(US) The Tunnel(UK) |
MGM | Brunner | |||
| Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann | ||||||
| 1964 | Youngblood Hawke | Warner Brothers | Mr. Leffer | |||
| Dir: Delmer Daves Cast: James Franciscus, Genevieve Page, Suzanne Pleshette, Eva Gabor | ||||||
| 1965 | Dark Intruder | Prof. Malaki | ||||
| Dir: Harvey Hart Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Judi Meredith | ||||||
| 1965 | Ship of Fools | Columbia | Lieutenant Heebner | |||
| Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Vivian Leigh, Oskar Werner, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer | ||||||
| 1968 | The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz | United Artists | Klaus | |||
| Dir: George Marshall Cast: Elke Sommer, Bob Crane, John Banner | ||||||
| 1991 | Queen Esther | Paramount Pictures | voice of Haman | |||
| 10.14.69 | Wake Me When the War Is Over | Yahoo! broadcast | Major Erich Mueller | |||
| 4.30.72 | Assignment: Munich | Inspector Hoffman | ||||
| 3.10,17, 24.77 |
The Rhinemann Exchange | Franz Altmuller | ||||
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| Honors, awards, recordings go here; under construction | |||