Hogan's Heroes alum Robert Clary dies at 96 … Holocaust survivor played Corporal LeBeau on series
dailymail.co.ukActor Robert Clary, who played the role of Corporal Louis LeBeau on the TV series Hogan's Heroes, died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home at the age of 96.Clary's granddaughter Kim Wright confirmed his death to The Hollywood Reporter.Clary, a Holocaust survivor, was the last living member of the principal cast of the CBS sitcom which ran for six seasons from September 1965 to April 1971.
The latest: Actor Robert Clary, who played the role of Corporal Louis LeBeau on the TV series Hogan's Heroes, died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home at the age of 96.
He was pictured in 2016 in LA The series starred Bob Crane in the titular role of Colonel Robert E. Hogan, an American leading a group of Allied prisoners of war in a mission to beat the Nazis from the Luft Stalag 13 camp.Clary was born Robert Max Widerman on March 1, 1926 in Paris as the youngest in an Orthodox Jewish family with 14 children.
He started singing and entertaining at the age of 12, and was 16 when his family was sent to Auschwitz, where his parents were murdered in the gas chamber.'My mother said the most remarkable thing,' he told THR in 2015. 'She said, "Behave." She probably knew me as a brat.
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