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General Burkhalter's German Army rank was
General
der Infanterie.
General Burkhalter wore the following decorations:
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| General Burkhalter trivia • During the pilot
episode "The Informer," General Burkhalter's rank was Colonel.
• In episode #161, "That's No Lady, That's My Spy" (1971),
General Burkhalter's wife, Berta, appears. |
Leon Askin as
General Burkhalter
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• It was stated in episode
#75, "An Evening of Generals" (1967) that General Burkhalter played the
mandolin.• General Burkhalter suffers from hay
fever. (episode #125 "Bombsight", 1969)
• General Burkhalter's niece,
Lottie, appeared in episode #30, "Cupid
Comes to Stalag 13" (1966).
• General Burkhalter's niece, Frieda, appeared in episode #137, "Gowns
by Yvette" (1970).
• It was stated in episode #150, "The Gestapo Takes Over"
(1970) that General Burkhalter was the head of the Luft-Stalag Administration.
• Berta Burkhalter, General Burkhalter's wife, had a brother in the German Army.
He was Captain Kurtz. (episode #55, "Everyone Has a
Brother-in-Law" 1967) |
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| pictured...Leon
Askin from his days during World War II as a Sergeant in
the US Army Air Force.
Thanks:
The Leon Askin Web Page. |
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| Austrian actor Leon
Askin began his stage career in Germany, then left Europe as
abruptly as possible when Hitler came to power. He reactivated his
career in New York in 1940, becoming an American citizen three
years later. In 1952, Askin
made his first Hollywood film, Assignment
Paris; though not quite as heavy or menacing-looking as he'd
be in the 1960s, the actor was typecast from his first movie as a
villain, usually fascist. One of his best early film roles was in Road
to Bali (1953), a Hope-Crosby farce in which he played a South
Seas witch doctor named Ramayana. Askin
later appeared in Danny
Kaye's Knock
on Wood (1954), this time (typically) cast as a trenchcoated
Teutonic spy. More of Askin's
"shifty foreigner" characterizations could be enjoyed in
The
Bowery Boys' Spy
Chasers (1955), Billy
Wilder's One
Two Three (1961), and the notorious political sex farce John
Goldfarb Please Come Home (1964), in which the actor played a
turbaned arab. As a Nazi officer (surprise, surprise) in What
Did You Do In the War, Daddy?, Askin
dropped dead in anticipation of an evening in bed with a pretty
young Italian girl, whereupon the local underground was forced to
tote his corpulent corpse all around town to hide the fact that
he'd expired. Active in films and as a drama teacher and lecturer
into the 1980s, Leon
Askin is best known to American TV addicts as the gross (and
gross-kopfed) officer Burkhalter on the 1960s sitcom Hogan's
Heroes. — Hal Erickson |
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Production team: Jeremy
Joe Kronsberg (Screenwriter), Norman
Panama (Director), Billy
Wilder (Screenwriter), William
J. Tuttle (Makeup), Bud
Westmore (Makeup), Henry
Mancini (Composer), Marlin
Skiles (Composer), Rolf
Thiele (Director), Edith
Head (Costume Designer), Alexander
Golitzen (Art Director), Jack
Martin Smith (Art Director), J.
McMillan Johnson (Art Director)
Actors: Mari
Blanchard, Mario
Adorf, Rudolf
Forster, O.E.
Hasse, George
Lewis, Hamilton
Mitchell, Jay
Novello, Gregg
Palmer, Charles
Regnier, Vito
Scotti, Chuck
Preiffer |
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1999 |
Kubanisch
Rauchen
aka Smoking Cuban Style |
Actor |
F |
|
1995 |
OcchioPinocchio |
Actor |
F |
 |
1994 |
Hoehenangst
aka Fear of Heights |
Actor [Starring] |
F |
|
1985 |
Odd
Jobs |
Actor |
F |
 |
1983 |
Frightmare |
Actor [Starring] |
F |
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1982 |
Airplane
II: The Sequel  |
Actor |
F |
|
1981 |
Going
Ape! |
Actor |
F |
|
1979 |
Savage
Island |
Actor [Starring] |
F |
 |
1974 |
Young
Frankenstein
aka Frankenstein Jr. |
Actor |
F |
| |
1974 |
Perahim
- Die Zweite Chance |
Actor |
F |
|
1973 |
The
World's Greatest Athlete |
Actor |
F |
|
1973 |
Genesis
II [TV] |
Actor |
F |
|
1972 |
Doctor
Death: Seeker of Souls |
Actor |
F |
|
1972 |
Hammersmith
Is Out |
Actor |
F |
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1969 |
A
Fine Pair
aka Una Coppia Tranquilla |
Actor [Starring] |
F |
|
1969 |
The
Maltese Bippy |
Actor |
F |
|
1968 |
La
Bataille de San Sebastian
aka Guns for San
Sebastian (U.S. title) |
Actor |
F |
|
1968 |
Funkstreife
Gottes
aka God's Police Patrol |
Actor [Starring] |
F |
|
1967 |
The
Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz |
Actor [Starring] |
F |
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1967 |
The
Perils of Pauline |
Actor |
F |
|
1967 |
Double
Trouble |
Actor |
F |
|
1967 |
The
Caper of the Golden Bulls
aka Carnival of Thieves |
Actor |
F |
| |
1967 |
The
Monkees: The Card Carrying Red Shoes [TV] |
Actor |
T |
|
1966 |
What
Did You Do in the War, Daddy? |
Actor |
F |
|
1965 |
The
Terror of Dr. Mabuse |
Actor |
F |
|
1965 |
Do
Not Disturb |
Actor |
F |
|
1964 |
John
Goldfarb, Please Come Home |
Actor |
F |
|
1962 |
Lulu |
Actor |
F |
|
1962 |
Sherlock
Holmes und das Halsband des Todes
aka Sherlock Holmes and
the Deadly Necklace
aka Valley of Fear |
Actor |
F |
|
1962 |
Das
Testament des Dr. Mabuse
aka Last Will of Dr.
Mabuse
aka The Testament of Dr. Mabuse |
Actor |
F |
|
1961 |
Unter
Ausschluss Der Oeffentlichkeit |
Actor |
F |
|
1961 |
One,
Two, Three |
Actor |
F |
|
1960 |
Bis
Dass Das Geld Euch Scheidet
aka Until Money Departs
You |
Actor |
F |
|
1960 |
Weit
Ist Der Weg |
Actor |
F |
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1958 |
The
Last Blitzkrieg |
Actor |
F |
|
1957 |
My
Gun Is Quick |
Actor |
F |
|
1956 |
Spy
Chasers |
Actor [Starring] |
F |
 |
1955 |
Carolina
Cannonball |
Actor [Starring] |
F |
|
1955 |
Son
of Sinbad
aka Nights in a Harem |
Actor |
F |
|
1954 |
Knock
on Wood |
Actor [Starring] |
F |
|
1954 |
Valley
of the Kings |
Actor |
F |
|
1954 |
Secret
of the Incas |
Actor |
F |
|
1953 |
Road
to Bali |
Actor |
F |
|
|
1953 |
Desert
Legion |
Actor |
F |
|
1953 |
The
Robe |
Actor |
F |
|
1953 |
The
Veils of Bagdad |
Actor |
F |
|
Leon Askin as Ramayana from the
1952 motion picture "Road to Bali" starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. |
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1953 |
China
Venture |
Actor |
F |
|
1953 |
South
Sea Woman |
Actor |
F |
|
1952 |
Assignment
- Paris |
Actor |
F |
| * Film Types:
F-Feature, D-Documentary, A-Animated, T-Television, P-Performance,
S-Series, V-Video |
Notable TV appearances
Glück auf Raten (1995) (TV)
... aka Bliss by Installments (1996) (TV) (USA)
Steirische Fernsehgeschichte, Eine (1995) (TV)
... aka Fernsehsage, Die (1995) (TV)
... aka Styrian Television Story, A (1995) (TV)
Genesis II (1973) (TV) .... Overseer
"Hogan's Heroes" (1965) TV Series .... General Albert
Burkhalter
"Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The" (1977)
in episode: "Hardy
Boys And Nancy Drew Meet Dracula: Part 2" (episode # 2.2) 9/18/1977
"Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The" (1977)
in episode: "Hardy
Boys And Nancy Drew Meet Dracula" (episode # 2.1) 9/11/1977
"Mission: Impossible" (1966) playing "Riva"
in
episode: "Death Squad" (episode # 4.24) 3/15/1970
"It Takes a Thief" (1968) in episode:
"Matter of Grey
Matter, A: Part 2" (episode # 2.17) 2/11/1969
"It Takes a Thief" (1968) in episode:
"Matter of Grey
Matter, A: Part 1" (episode # 2.16) 2/11/1969
"Rogues, The" (1964) in episode: "Plavonia, Hail and
Farewell" (episode # 1.11) 11/29/1964
"Restless Gun, The" (1957) in episode:
"Shooting of Jett
King, The" (episode # 1.6) 10/28/1957
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