'Hogan's Heroes' Actor Leon Askin Dies
VIENNA, Austria - Leon Askin, the actor who played General Burkhalter in the 1960s television comedy "Hogan's Heroes," has died, Austrian officials said Friday.
The actor was 97. Neither city officials nor the Vienna hospital where he died disclosed the cause or date of his death.
Askin was best known for his role as the Nazi general who constantly threatened to send the prisoner of war camp's inept commander, Col. Wilhelm Klink, to the Russian front because of his stupidity.
"Beverly Hills school children would call after me, 'Klink, Klink!'" Askin wrote on his Web site. "People driving through Beverly Hills who saw these children raising their arms in the Hitler salute couldn't continue out of sheer shock and amazement and brought traffic to a standstill
VIENNA, Austria - Leon Askin, the actor who played General Burkhalter in the 1960s television comedy "Hogan's Heroes," has died, Austrian officials said Friday.
The actor was 97. Neither city officials nor the Vienna hospital where he died disclosed the cause or date of his death.
Askin was best known for his role as the Nazi general who constantly threatened to send the prisoner of war camp's inept commander, Col. Wilhelm Klink, to the Russian front because of his stupidity.
"Beverly Hills school children would call after me, 'Klink, Klink!'" Askin wrote on his Web site. "People driving through Beverly Hills who saw these children raising their arms in the Hitler salute couldn't continue out of sheer shock and amazement and brought traffic to a standstill
