Footage of Werner Klemperer at the 1969 Emmy Awards. Werner Klemperer was best known for playing Colonel Wilhelm Klink in the hit CBS Sitcom "Hogan's Heroes".
Barney and Klink! Seriously, he was a true professional. No politics, just grateful and acknowledging his costars. Just an incredible actor. RIP Werner Klemperer... you were one of the greats...
According to the Wikipedia bio, Werner Klemperer was also a very accomplished musician -- violinist, concert pianist and operatic baritone. He came from a musical family. His mother was an operatic soprano and of course his father was the famous conductor Otto Klemperer. I guess he (Werner) most enjoyed acting.
I agree with all but the operatic baritone. He did work in opera but they tended to be non-singing parts. I actually did a production with him in Seattle in the early 80s of Die Fledermaus and he performed his role (Count Orlovsky) has Rex Harrison did his in My Fair Lady. Needless to say it was a wild production and included Buddy Hackett and Paul Sorvino (about 8 years before Good Fellas).
I just love this guy. He was so elegant and un-2020-like. His demeanor and speech will tell you all you need to know. And for a guy who was never a comedic actor, he was funny as hell as Colonel Klink. Never watched this show till a couple months ago, and now I can't get enough of it!
A very humble and charitable man, who makes most of today's actors" seem rather pathetic. I agree, he was the star of the show; he had most of the dialog or at least as much as Bob Crane. It seems to me that folks back then were very much into the craft of being a performer and not necessarily so much into being famous. Thanks much for the upload.
Morris, Nimoy, and Klemperer--all three truly deserved the award, but unfortunately only one could be the winner. No regrets at all that Werner won. Wonderful people, all of them! Mission Impossible, Star Trek, and Hogan's Heroes were such awesome shows!
He died before I was born but still had a great impact in my life. 'Wilhelm Klink' was one of my first role models.. Loving, kind, respectful... I'll never forget that/him He was the best actor I've ever seen
The one underlying thing about this man and all the interviews he did over the years was his humbleness. It was so sad to hear that someone stole that monocle he kept from the TV series...I hope whoever took it rots in hell.
Dissssssmmmmisssssssed, These are the fellas from funniest to funny imho.Klink, Schultz, Carter, LeBeau, Newkirk, Hogan, Kinch. I'm loving the fact that i get to watch two episodes a night five nights a week on MeTV #HogansHeroes #MeTV
I think that He accepted the applause for himself and gave the award away with his speech to Bob and Company. Either way, a very good acceptance speech. I really loved the show, I was to busy for television when it first ran, but thanks to Nick a t Night and now RU-vid I can make-up for lost time. Shalom.
Ivan actually left the show in 1970 after the 5th season because at that time he felt there was nowhere else for Kinch to go. HH was supposed to have gone on until at least 1972 but the 1-2 punch known as the rural purge and the Primetime Access Rule put paid to plans for a 7th season.
I thought it was very classy of him to mention all the other co stars in the way he did. And although he was deserving of the award, it's hard to imagine John Banner not winning the same award because anyone who has seen Hogan's Heroes would probably agree that Sgt. Schultz was easily as important and good a character as Klink was.
So damn great watching them accept awards back then w/o given a stupid speech about political agendas and demanding we, the pubic, think like them. What a generation.
YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN AND FOR NOT BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT. WE ALL THOUGHT THOSE WERE BAD TIMES HERE THET WERE THE BEST TIME. OUR PARENTS AND GRAND PARENTS WERE ALL.STILL ALIVE AND CHRISTMAS WAS SO SPECIAL NOW EVERYONE IS GONE. WELL.THANKS YOUR MAKING ME CRY NOW.
He was great in a Twilight Zone as an escaping Nazi on a submarine that hears a knocking noise. Eventually, he goes mad! When they captured and dismantled the sub they found a skeleton in between the inner outer hull. Theory was a Jewish man got sealed in their holding... you guessed it. A metal wrench
So well deserved and the right choice, but how in the heck did Greg Morris get nominated??? Werner and Don Knotts were two of the best television character actors ever.
I noticed that, too. And he was reading something, so it wasn't like he absent-mindedly forgot him. Bummer. Dixon won an Emmy for a different category in 1967 (not for Hogan's Heroes).
+Bender IsGreat I thought of that but am not sure - it's right on the edge. Dixon only missed season 6 which was 1971 but it may have started in 1970, and this award series was in 1969. Either way, probably not significant, just something I noticed.
Ivan Dixon left the show at the end of season five (March 27, 1970). The 1969 Awards ceremony was telecast on June 8, 1969. Thus, Dixon was part of the cast at the time of this video.
I believe Dixon had left the show by '69. He was replaced by Kenneth Washington. It was a tumultuous time and EVERYTHING seemed to have a political undercurrent to it. Dixon later regretted leaving the show. Kinch was a very positive black character who was an ammunition and espionage master, when their weren't too many blacks on TV AT ALL. Thanks for Ivan Dixon heads up.
He didn't. Hogans Heroes ran for 6 years. Ivan Dixon was in every season except the last which I believe was 1971 so nah whoever trying to make excuses for WK should probably try a different argument then Ivan Dixon might have already left the show. Look i grew up during the 60s + 70's + the racial animus towards black people was still in a fever pitch. So maybe WK just a product of the times even after what he witnessed in Nazi Germany against himself + his people. But hell you had slave owners who couldn't stand black people but were raping black women every chance they got. Not gonna lie it was a little disappointing to hear him leave out the 1 black guy but named every other character, even the secretary
Terrible to overlook Dixon. At least Dixon won his own Emmy for something outside of Hogan's Heroes. Such a great talent, including directing and singing.
+Chief Kurtz Ivan Dixon was written out of the show, when his character was accidentally shot by the prison guards when Hogan were setting up another Nazi who knew of his war operations at Stalag 13 to be killed. Sergeant Kinchloe ended up dying in Col. Hogan's arms. Kenneth Washington was a new arrival at Stalag 13 in that episode, and took over Dixon's spot in the cast of the series.