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Werner Klemperer ( March 22, 1920, Cologne, Germany - December 6, 2000, New York City) was an actor.Born into a musical family, his mother was Johanna Geisler , a soprano, and his father the conductor Otto Klemperer. A jew, his family fled the Nazi regime in 1933, making their way to Los Angeles, California in the United States.
Klemperer began acting in High School and although an accomplished concert pianist, he enrolled in acting school in Pasadena before joining the U.S. Army to fight in World War II. While stationed in HawaiiFor the 1959 novel and 1966 movie, see Hawaii (novel). Hawaii ( Hawaiian/ Hawaiian English: Hawai‘i with the ‘okina is the archipelago of the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii constitutes the 50th state of the United States, and as of the 2000, he joined the army’s Special Services unit, spending the next few years touring the Pacific entertaining the troops. At the end of the war, he worked on BroadwayThis article is about the street in New York City. For other articles with the name Broadway, see: Broadway (disambiguation). Broadway as the name implies, is a big, wide avenue in New York City, New York, and is one of the main north-south thoroughfares and the advent of rapid growth in the television industry opened new doors to him. Most remembered as Colonel Klink in Hogan's HeroesHogan's Heroes was a television sitcom that ran on the CBS television network from 1965 to 1971. Starring Bob Crane as Colonel Robert Hogan, the show was set at Stalag 13, a German prisoner of war camp for Western Allied prisoners during World War II., which ran on CBS from 1965 to 1971, Klemperer was very conscious of the fact that he was playing a Nazi and agreed only to play Klink on the condition that he would be portrayed as a fool and that he never succeeded. For his performance, Klemperer received four Emmy AwardThe Emmy Awards are United States television production awards, similar to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment. There are two types of Emmy Awards, the Daytime Awards and the Primetime Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sci nominations for best supporting actor in each of the show's six seasons, winning in 1968 and again in 1969.
With his famous father’s passing in 1973, Werner Klemperer felt confident enough to enter into a musical career as an operaCharles Garnier's Opera, Paris, opened 1875 Opera is an art form consisting of a dramatic stage performance set to music. The drama is presented using the typical elements of theater such as scenery, costumes, and acting. However, the words of the opera, baritone and a singer in Broadway musicals, earning a Tony AwardWhat is popularly called the Tony Award but is formally the Antoinette Perry Award is an annual American award celebrating achievements in theater, including musical theater. Awarded by a panel of approximately 700 judges from various areas of the industr nomination for his performance in CabaretCabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (often dining or drinking) watc. A member of the Board of Directors of the New York Chamber Symphony , Werner Klemperer served as a narrator with many other U.S. symphony orchestras.
Werner Klemperer passed away on December 7, 2000. His body was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea.
Klemperer, Werner
Klemperer, Werner
Klemperer, Werner
