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Werner Klemperer

1920 - 2000

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Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was an American actor. He was best known for playing Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom Hogan's Heroes, for which he twice won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1968 and 1969. Klemperer served in the United States Army during World War II, then began performing on the Broadway stage in 1947. He appeared in several films during his early acting career, such as The Wrong Man (1956), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and Houseboat (1958), and he had numerous roles on television shows such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956), Perry Mason (1957), Maverick (1957), Gunsmoke (1958), The Untouchables (1960), and Have Gun – Will Travel (1961), prior to his Hogan's Heroes role. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Werner Klemperer is the 3,381st most popular actor (down from 3,352nd in 2019), the 3,908th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,886th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular German Actor.

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Among actors, Werner Klemperer ranks 3,381 out of 13,578. Before him are Kyōko Kagawa, Lya De Putti, Hayley Mills, Tapio Rautavaara, Chelo Alonso, and Yoko Shimada. After him are Barbara Hale, Joel McCrea, Eugenio Derbez, Tom Mix, Slava Polunin, and Christopher Eccleston.

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Among people born in 1920, Werner Klemperer ranks 247. Before him are Virginia Mayo, Gabrielle Wittkop, Paul Mebus, Edmonde Charles-Roux, Bruno Ruffo, and Nilde Iotti. After him are Jadwiga Piłsudska, Ignacio Eizaguirre, Heleno de Freitas, Ronald Speirs, Frances Ames, and Nadir Afonso. Among people deceased in 2000, Werner Klemperer ranks 166. Before him are Bruno Zevi, Franco Donatoni, Basil Bernstein, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Stephanos Christopoulos, and Robert Dienst. After him are Frédéric Dard, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Charles Gray, George Segal, Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, and Patricia Jones.

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Among people born in Germany, Werner Klemperer ranks 3,910 out of 7,253. Before him are Dirk Nowitzki (1978), Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1846), Johanna Klier (1952), Sophie Menter (1846), Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746), and Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926). After him are Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (1923), Rudi Fischer (1912), Gabriel Biel (1418), Joshua Kimmich (1995), and Wilhelm Hofmeister (1824).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Werner Klemperer ranks 102. Before him are Corinna Harfouch (1954), Ralf Moeller (1959), Margit Carstensen (1940), Holger Meins (1941), Peter Carsten (1928), and Rolf Hoppe (1930). After him are Sheryl Lee (1967), Dora Gerson (1899), Michel Auclair (1922), August Diehl (1976), Gustav Knuth (1901), and Irm Hermann (1942).

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