RIP, Colonel Klink's secretary

And Bob Crane's wife:

http://television.aol.com/news/story/_a/hogans-heroes-actress-valdis-dies/20071120065509990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

 

Heaven needed another ......uh........ hmmmmmm......errrrrr..

 

nazi secretary?? : :

 

Nice to be that egotistical to assume your funeral would draw press.

 

...almost 40 years after you played a bit part in a sitcom.

She had less screen time than Millie Helper.

 

Wife of a dead bludgeoned closeted perv?

 

I've left detailed instructions to my heirs to conduct my funeral in absolute privacy to avoid the prying eyes of the pandering media.

I vant to be ahhh-lone.

 

Yet had far better assets

 

Did this woman ever have a line? Mostly, she posed for publicity stills.

 

I believe it was "Helga", not "Hilda" as the obit has it

 

oops...have since learned that (the now deceased) Hilda came after Helga...never mind...

 

That leaves Richard Dawson, Ivan Dixon, Kenneth Washington and Robert Clary as the only surviving marquee cast members. I thought Leon Askin, who played General Burkhalter, was still alive. Alas, he died at 97 two years ago.

Among the semi-regular cast, Bernard Fox (Col. Crittenden) is the sole survivor.

Speaking of Clary, it always amazed me that he could act in a series that portrayed the Nazis as bumbling oafs, considering he spent nearly 3 years in a concentration camp and was the only one of his family to make it out alive.