Actor. Born Robert Max Widerman, he was a French-born American/Jewish actor that was the youngest of 14 children. When he was just 12 years old, he started his singing on French radio professionally. Because he was Jewish, he was arrested in 1942 and deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Ottmuth. While there, he was tattooed with identification number "A5714." He was transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp, from which he was liberated on April 11, 1945. After returning to Paris after the war, he learned that three of his siblings had not been arrested by the SS and had survived the Nazi occupation of France. In 1965, he was offered a role on a new TV sitcom that was to start airing on September 17, 1965 and would cease production on April 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The sitcom was "Hogan's Heroes" and the part he was offered, and eventually accepted, was Corporal Louis LeBeau, a French POW who was a member of an Allied sabotage unit operating from inside Stalag 13. He was the last surviving original cast member at the time of his death. He also took part in other TV and cinema productions such as "The High Chaparral" (TV 1967 to 1971), "Days of Our Lives" (TV 1972 to 1973, 1975 to 1983, 1986 to 1987), "The Bold and the Beautiful" (TV 1990 to 1992), "Ten Tall Men"(1951 film), "A New Kind of Love" (1963 film) and "Remembrance of Love (1982 film). He spent years touring Europe and Canada speaking about the Holocaust. He was also a painter and he published his memoirs called "From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary" in 2001. He passed away at his home in Los Angeles.
Actor. Born Robert Max Widerman, he was a French-born American/Jewish actor that was the youngest of 14 children. When he was just 12 years old, he started his singing on French radio professionally. Because he was Jewish, he was arrested in 1942 and deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Ottmuth. While there, he was tattooed with identification number "A5714." He was transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp, from which he was liberated on April 11, 1945. After returning to Paris after the war, he learned that three of his siblings had not been arrested by the SS and had survived the Nazi occupation of France. In 1965, he was offered a role on a new TV sitcom that was to start airing on September 17, 1965 and would cease production on April 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The sitcom was "Hogan's Heroes" and the part he was offered, and eventually accepted, was Corporal Louis LeBeau, a French POW who was a member of an Allied sabotage unit operating from inside Stalag 13. He was the last surviving original cast member at the time of his death. He also took part in other TV and cinema productions such as "The High Chaparral" (TV 1967 to 1971), "Days of Our Lives" (TV 1972 to 1973, 1975 to 1983, 1986 to 1987), "The Bold and the Beautiful" (TV 1990 to 1992), "Ten Tall Men"(1951 film), "A New Kind of Love" (1963 film) and "Remembrance of Love (1982 film). He spent years touring Europe and Canada speaking about the Holocaust. He was also a painter and he published his memoirs called "From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary" in 2001. He passed away at his home in Los Angeles.
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