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Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) [1] 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.
Bob Crane as Colonel Hogan. Colonel Robert E. Hogan (portrayed by Bob Crane) – United States Army Air Forces Colonel Robert E. Hogan is the main protagonist of the series, senior officer among the prisoners of war at Stalag 13, and leader of a group of prisoners who secretly sabotage the German war effort and help allies to flee Germany.
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.
Colonel Klink boasts that the Nazis' new tiger tank will lead the Germans to victory. Hogan wants to steal one of the tanks, have it dismantled and send its blueprints to the Allies. Newkirk dresses up as a Gestapo Agent in order to get out of the camp. He steals a tank and brings it back to the camp.
She appeared in one episode of Hogan's Heroes as a different character before landing the role of Hilda, Colonel Klink's secretary, replacing Cynthia Lynn ("Helga") who played the role in the first season.
Lynn portrayed "Fräulein Helga", Colonel Klink's original secretary in Hogan's Heroes during the first season (1965–1966). The role was played by Sigrid Valdis as "Hilda" in the next five seasons. Lynn returned to the series in the 1968 and 1971 episodes "Will the Blue Baron Strike Again" and "Easy Come, Easy Go", respectively.
Burkhalter was the gruff and portly commanding officer of Colonel Klink, the bungling commandant of a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp, manipulated by American Colonel Hogan so that the prisoners would get away with clandestine activities.
He initially takes the form of Isaac Newton, but since Homer has no idea who that is, he instead takes the form of Colonel Klink, and shows Homer what his life would be like without Marge (à la It's A Wonderful Life). Klink is a character on Hogan's Heroes and Klink's actor, Werner Klemperer, voiced Klink in this episode. Mirkin said Klemperer ...