RIP Robert Clary aka Corporal LeBeau

[MRP]

Robert Clary, the actor best known for playing Corporal LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes passed yesterday. He was 96.

-M

[Earth 2 Chris]

I will forever see him coming out of that trap door underneath the German Shephards. RIP.

[apes3978]

Always liked him on 'Hogan's Heroes'...

96, that's a good run for sure. Hopefully he wasn't really sick at the end or anything like that.

[rykerw1701]

I think he was the last one of the show principles still alive. Crazy as it sounds, Clary was a French Jew who actually spent time in a real Nazi prison camp as a child. Maybe mocking the Nazi's made him deal with his childhood trauma better.

[Mikey]

Loved his character Louis LeBeau !!!

Also was enthralled reading and listening to his experiences as a true Nazi concentration camp survivor.

Man, i'm tearing up for our world's loss

Clary was/is an irreplaceable icon

RIP

[Megotastrophe]

Auschwitz survivor.

[apes3978]

He had an even longer run in the industry than I thought, which I read about here: https://lite.aol.com/entertainment/s...6354794ac7cdf4

[Mikey]

Loved his response to Bob Crane being a Republican conservative

"that's his problem"

Man, this gent had class

[apes3978]

Bob Crane being a Republican conservative

Surprising in a way, considering some of his extra-curricular activities.

[Megotastrophe]

Not really surprising at all.

[jwyblejr]

I think he was the last one of the show principles still alive. Crazy as it sounds, Clary was a French Jew who actually spent time in a real Nazi prison camp as a child. Maybe mocking the Nazi's made him deal with his childhood trauma better.

It's kind of ironic how many on the show were. Leon Askin(Gen.Burkhalter) was one. It's how he got his scar. Werner Klemperer and John Banner were Jewish too. Not sure if they were any camps.

[apes3978]

It's kind of ironic how many on the show were. Leon Askin(Gen.Burkhalter) was one. It's how he got his scar. Werner Klemperer and John Banner were Jewish too. Not sure if they were any camps.

Werner Klemperer, Leon Askin & John Banner all managed to escape Nazi persecution during WWII.

[Jorge Galvan]

https://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/life/2022/12/01/robert-clarys-journey-from-the-holocaust-to-hollywood/69668008007/

and if your REALLY interested on Mr. Clary's life journey, check out the following, you won't regret it.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-from-the-holocaust-to-hollywood-the-robert-clary-story/35934670?ean=0810071441233

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/from-the-holocaust-to-hogans-heroes-robert-clary/1141380930?ean=9781589793453

and if any one is curious, Kenneth Washington who played Sgt. Robert Baker in the last series, series 6, is the last surviving member of the cast.