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Robert Clary (born Robert Max Widerman; March 1, 1926 – November 16, 2022) was a French actor mainly active in the United States. He is best known for his role in the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes as Corporal Louis LeBeau (1965–1971). He also had recurring roles in the soap operas Days of Our Lives (1972–1987), and The Bold and the Beautiful (1990–1992). Early life and Holocaust survival[edit]Born in 1926 in Paris, France, Clary was the youngest of 14 children, 10 of whom died in the Holocaust.[1] His parents, Baila and Moishe Widerman, were Polish Jewish immigrants.[2] At age 12, he began a career singing professionally on a French radio station and also studied art in Paris.[3] In 1942, because he was Jewish, he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Ottmuth, in Upper Silesia (now Otmęt, Poland). He was tattooed with the identification "A5714" on his left forearm. He was later sent to Buchenwald concentration camp.[1] At Buchenwald, Clary sang to an audience of SS soldiers every other Sunday, accompanied by an accordionist. He said, "Singing, entertaining, and being in kind of good health at my age, that's why I survived. I was very immature and young and not really fully realizing what situation I was involved with ... I don't know if I would have survived if I really knew that."[4] Writing about his experience, Clary said:
Clary was liberated from Buchenwald on April 11, 1945. Twelve other members of his immediate family had been sent to Auschwitz concentration camp; Clary was the only survivor.[6] When he returned to Paris after World War II, he learned that three of his 13 siblings had not been taken away and had survived the Nazi occupation of France.[4] Career[edit]Clary c. 1950, as a Capitol recording artist Clary returned to the entertainment business and began singing songs that became popular not only in France, but in the United States as well.[1] Clary made his first recordings in 1948; they were brought to the United States on wire and were issued on disk by Capitol Records.[3] He went to the U.S. in October 1949. One of Clary's first American appearances was a French-language comedy skit on The Ed Wynn Show in 1950. Clary later met Merv Griffin and Eddie Cantor. This eventually led to Clary meeting Cantor's daughter, Natalie Cantor Metzger, whom he married in 1965, after being "the closest of friends" for 15 years.[1] Cantor later got Clary a spot on The Colgate Comedy Hour.[1] In the mid-1950s, Clary appeared on NBC's early sitcom The Martha Raye Show and on CBS's drama anthology series Appointment with Adventure.[citation needed] Clary's comedic skills were quickly recognized by Broadway, where he appeared in several popular musicals, including New Faces of 1952, which was produced as a film in 1954.[citation needed] In 1952, he appeared in the film Thief of Damascus which also starred Paul Henreid and Lon Chaney Jr. In 1958, he guest-starred on The Gisele MacKenzie Show (NBC). He guest-starred on The Munsters Today (1989) as Louis Schecter, Lily's acting coach, in the episode "Green Eyed Munsters".[citation needed] In 1959, he was cast in the title role of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in a British production of an Edward Chodorov play, Monsieur Lautrec.[7][8] The play ran for two weeks at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry.[9] Although The Stage panned the play, it praised Clary for portraying Lautrec "with a delicacy and yet moving intenseness."[10] LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes[edit]As LeBeau in Hogan's Heroes with Fräulein Helga (Cynthia Lynn) In 1965, the diminutive 155 cm (5 ft 1 in) Clary was offered the role of Corporal Louis LeBeau on a new television sitcom called Hogan's Heroes, and he accepted the role when the pilot sold. The series was set in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during World War II, and Clary played a French POW who was a member of an Allied sabotage unit operating from inside the camp.[citation needed] Asked about parallels between LeBeau's incarceration and his own, Clary said, "Stalag 13 is not a concentration camp. It's a POW camp, and that's a world of difference. You never heard of a prisoner of war being gassed or hanged. When the show went on the air, people asked me if I had any qualms about doing a comedy series dealing with Nazis and concentration camps. I had to explain that it was about prisoners of war in a Stalag, not a concentration camp, and although I did not want to diminish what soldiers went through during their internments, it was like night and day from what people endured in concentration camps."[5] Clary became one of the last two surviving principal cast members of Hogan's Heroes, with Kenneth Washington (Sergeant Richard Baker, final season), when Cynthia Lynn (Helga, first season, 1965–1966) died on March 10, 2014. Later life and career[edit]After Hogan's Heroes was cancelled in 1971, Clary maintained close ties to fellow Hogan's Heroes cast members Werner Klemperer, John Banner, and Leon Askin, whose lives were also affected by the Holocaust. Following the show's cancellation, he appeared in a handful of feature films with World War II themes, including the made-for-television film Remembrance of Love, about the Holocaust. Clary also appeared on the soap operas Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, and The Bold and the Beautiful.[citation needed] Clary appeared in the 1975 film The Hindenburg, which portrayed a fictional plot to blow up the German airship after it arrived at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station. He played Joseph Späh, a real-life passenger on the airship's final voyage.[citation needed] Clary spent years touring Canada and the United States, speaking about the Holocaust. He was a painter, painting from photographs he took on his travels.[1] Clary published a memoir, From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary, in 2001.[11] Death[edit]Clary died at his Los Angeles home on November 16, 2022, at age 96.[12][2] Films[edit]
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How old is Robert Clary now?Death. Clary died at his Los Angeles home on November 16, 2022, at age 96.
How old was Robert Clary when he died?96 years (1926–2022)Robert Clary / Age at deathnull
Did robert clary have children?Clary married Natalie Cantor, the daughter of singer-actor Eddie Cantor, in 1965. She died in 1997. He had no children.
How many of Hogan heroes are still alive?Not only did Hogan's Heroes have a long run from 1965-1971, but it played endlessly thereafter in syndication. Clary was one of the last two surviving members of the show's principal cast, the other being Kenneth Washington, who played Sergeant Richard Baker in the show's final season.
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