RIP Robert Clary aka Cpl. Lebeau

[Zeedox]

Robert Clary, last of the ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ stars, dies at 96

Robert Clary, who played a prisoner of war in the TV sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” has died. Clary sported a beret in his role as the feisty Corporal Louis LeBeau in “Hogan’s Heroes,” which aired from 1965 to 1971.

apnews.com

Robert Clary, a French-born survivor of Nazi concentration camps during World War II who played a feisty prisoner of war in the improbable 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” has died. He was 96.

A documentary about Clary’s childhood and years of horror at Nazi hands, “Robert Clary, A5714: A Memoir of Liberation,” was released in 1985. The forearms of concentration camp prisoners were tattooed with identification numbers, with A5714 to be Clary’s lifelong mark.

I did not know he had been a POW himself.

 

[Gomez Adams]

I did not know he had been a POW himself.

I didn't either. I didn't know he was really French either.