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Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000)〔Weinraub, Bernard ("Werner Klemperer, Klink in 'Hogan's Heroes,' Dies at 80" ) ''New York Times'' (December 8, 2000)〕 was a German-born American stage, film, and television actor and musician. Born in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Klemperer and his family fled Germany in 1935. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he began his professional acting career on the Broadway stage in 1947. Klemperer appeared in several films and numerous guest starring roles during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1965, he won the role of Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom ''Hogan's Heroes''. The series aired for six seasons with Klemperer receiving a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nomination for each year, winning the award in 1968 and 1969. ==Early life== Klemperer was born in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, to a musical family. His father was renowned conductor Otto Klemperer and his mother was soprano Johanna Geisler. He had a younger sister named Lotte (1923–2003).〔Klemperer was a cousin of Victor Klemperer.〕 His father was a Jew who converted to Catholicism but later converted back to Judaism; his mother was Lutheran.〔http://www.hogansheroesfanclub.com/articleWernerKlempererCaptainSpaulding.php〕 The Klemperer family emigrated to the United States in 1935, settling in Los Angeles, where Otto Klemperer took up work as a conductor. Werner Klemperer began acting in high school and enrolled in acting courses at the Pasadena Playhouse〔 before joining the United States Army to serve in World War II. While stationed in Hawaii, he joined the Army's Special Services unit, spending the next years touring the Pacific entertaining the troops. At the war's end, he performed on Broadway before moving into television acting. Klemperer was also a violinist and an accomplished concert pianist.〔Erickson, Hal ("Werner Klemperer" (Allmovie biography) )〕 He broadened his acting career by performing as an operatic baritone and a singer in Broadway musicals. He can also be heard as the Speaker in Arnold Schoenberg's ''Gurrelieder'', in a 1979 live performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Werner Klemperer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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