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Robert Edward Crane [1] (July 13, 1928 – June 29, 1978) was an American actor, drummer, radio personality and disc jockey known for starring in the CBS sitcom Hogan's Heroes. Crane was a drummer from age 11, [ 2 ] and began his entertainment career as a radio personality, beginning in Hornell, New York and later in Connecticut .
Actor Bob Crane, shown in character in 1965 as Col. Robert Hogan from "Hogan's Heroes," was murdered in Scottsdale in 1978. John Henry Carpenter became the prime suspect soon after Crane's badly ...
During the run of Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971), actor Richard Dawson introduced Bob Crane, star of the series, to Carpenter, then a regional sales manager for Sony Electronics. [4] Carpenter often helped famous clients with video and audio equipment. [9] The two men struck up a friendship and began going to bars together.
Auto Focus tells a dramatized story of actor Bob Crane, an affable radio show host and amateur drummer who found success on the popular sitcom Hogan's Heroes, and his dramatic descent into the underbelly of Hollywood after the series was cancelled and he formed a friendship with videographer John Henry Carpenter.
Valdis' second marriage was to Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane on the set of the series on October 16, 1970. Co-star Richard Dawson served as Crane's best man. Following the birth of their son Robert Scott Crane in 1971, Valdis retired from acting. In 1978, she moved from the Los Angeles area after Crane was murdered. [3]
Hogan's Heroes centers on U.S. Army Air Forces Colonel Robert Hogan and his staff of experts who are prisoners of war (POW) during World War II.The plot occurs during the permanent winter season in the fictionalized Stalag 13 just outside Hammelburg in Nazi Germany, though details in the show are inconsistent with the real-life camp and city's location in Franconia.
He made eight guest appearances on Hogan's Heroes, starring Bob Crane, from 1965 to 1971. He also made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, first as murder victim David Cartwell in the 1964 episode, "The Case of the Paper Bullets," and Dan Swanson in "The Case of the Dead Ringer," in 1966 when star Raymond Burr doubled as Mason and murderer ...
A few months after a video of a Boeing plane flying with a gaping hole in its side stunned the country, Boeing whistleblower John Barnett died of an apparent suicide.A quality manager in North ...