ACTOR

Werner Klemperer

1920 - 2000

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Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was an American actor. He was known for playing Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom Hogan's Heroes, for which he twice won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1968 and 1969. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he began performing on the Broadway stage in 1947. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Werner Klemperer has received more than 3,087,096 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Werner Klemperer is the 3,355th most popular actor (down from 3,168th in 2019), the 3,886th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,546th in 2019) and the 117th most popular German Actor.

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  • 20

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  • 2.14

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  • 3.37

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Werner Klemperer ranks 3,355 out of 13,578. Before him are James Coco, Daniel Baldwin, Yevgeny Morgunov, Caroline Goodall, George Burns, and Rhonda Fleming. After him are Ty Burrell, Coline Serreau, Gale Sondergaard, Lawrence Tierney, Nehemiah Persoff, and Kathryn Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Werner Klemperer ranks 241. Before him are Andrew V. McLaglen, John Lewis, Siegfried Buback, Antonina Makarova, Michel Audiard, and Lygia Clark. After him are Jadwiga Piłsudska, Nilde Iotti, Tony Randall, Eiji Okada, Julien Ries, and Heleno de Freitas. Among people deceased in 2000, Werner Klemperer ranks 170. Before him are Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, Carmen Martín Gaite, Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen, Walter Berry, So Yamamura, and Anne Hébert. After him are Paula Wessely, Carlos Guastavino, Ansumane Mané, Rinaldo Martino, Johannes Virolainen, and Herbert Friedman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Werner Klemperer ranks 3,886 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg (1864), Heinrich Gelzer (1847), Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1681), Karoline von Günderrode (1780), Johann Theile (1646), and Eberhard Vogel (1943). After him are Robert Spaemann (1927), Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744), Maximilian von Montgelas (1759), Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (1765), Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839), and Wilhelm Jordan (1842).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Werner Klemperer ranks 117. Before him are Friedrich Ludwig Schröder (1744), Petra Schürmann (1933), Albert Bassermann (1867), Mathieu Carrière (1950), Peter Carsten (1928), and Dora Gerson (1899). After him are Curt Bois (1901), Hans Clarin (1929), Theo Lingen (1903), Hannelore Elsner (1942), Charles Régnier (1914), and Martina Gedeck (1961).

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Television and Movie Roles

Judgment at Nuremberg
Emil Hahn
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
Dec 18th 19618.1 / 10
Hogan's Heroes
Wilhelm Klink
Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.
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The Wrong Man
Dr. Bannay (uncredited)
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Dec 22nd 19567.1 / 10