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"Hogan" Actors in other Nazi Prison Camp Films

posted 9 years ago by greendahlias
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In an early 1st season episode, Lawrence Montaigne played a Nazi soldier guarding a barrel of "heavy water"used in A-bomb development.

I recognized him from The Great Escape as a prisoner who escaped the stalag in a Nazi army uniform. Later, he met the same,tragic fate as Big X and the others.

Any other examples of Hogan's Heroes performers who were also cast in Stalag 17, The Great Escape, The MacKenzie Break, or other WWII military prison camp films, European Theater?

[–] DontBogartMe 9 years ago

Richard Erdman, recognizable by his Mr. Magoo-like nose, played a war correspondent who sort of spilled the beans on Hogan's operations. But a decade earlier, he was cast as the top sergeant who spoke for the other prisoners in Stalag 17.

[–] tseybert 9 years ago

It doesn't count because it's a Japanese-run internment camp in Singapore, but Richard Dawson was in the 1965 film King Rat. Dawson isn't a prisoner, if I recall correctly. He wanders up at the end of the movie to tell them the Japanese have left and they aren't prisoners anymore.

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[–] greendahlias 9 years ago

That is a worthy entry here, involving a series regular. I do remember Richard at the end of King Rat when he wasn't far removed from being billed as "Dickie Dawson."

[–] mark.waltz 8 years ago

It's not quite a prison camp film, but Werner Klemperer plays one of the Nazi's on trial in "Judgment at Nuremberg", and quite a nasty one, a far cry from the inept Klink who probably secretly hated being on the side he was. Ironically, he also played Herr Schultz, the Jewish grocer in a 1988 Broadway revival of "Cabaret". His versatility really makes me respect him more as an actor.

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