![]() There, he secured a contract with Capitol as a singer and made his TV debut on 1949's "Hollywood on Television."Ĭlary's film debut arrived in the Burt Lancaster action flick "Ten Tall Men" (1951). When the war ended, Clary became a performer in France before moving to L.A. ![]() ![]() He managed to avoid being put to death over his 30+ months in Auschwitz and Buchenwald by singing for his captors, and also attributed his survival to his youth and health. It nearly lasted longer than the conflict in which it was set, running 168 episodes from 1965-1971.Ĭlary, whose character's cooking skills often helped run interference with the camp's menacing Colonel Klink, had been the last surviving member of the cast, which was headed by Bob Crane.īorn in Paris on March 1, 1926, Clary performed as a child before being interned with his family at Auschwitz, where his parents were immediately killed and the rest of his family perished. ![]() Launched just 20 years after the end of WWII, "Hogan's Heroes" was set in a German POW camp, where a group of Allied prisoners was attempting to liberate the camp and defeat the Nazis from within. Robert Clary, familiar to TV fans as Corporal LeBeau on the classic sitcom "Hogan's Heroes," died Wednesday at his L.A. ![]()
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