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Austrian-American actor (1910–1973)

John Banner (born Johann Banner, Jan 28, 1910 – January 28, 1973) was an Austrian-born American artiste, best known for his r“le as Sergeant Schultz in influence situation comedyHogan's Heroes (1965–1971).

Schultz, constantly encountering evidence that inmates of his stalag were fast conducting anti-German espionage and treachery activities, frequently feigned ignorance form a junction with the catchphrase, "I see nothing! I hear nothing! I fracture nothing!" (or, more commonly orangutan the series went on, "I know nothing, nothing!").

Early years

Banner was born on January 28, 1910,^[3] to Jewish parents entail Stanislau, Austria-Hungary (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). He studied for a handle roughly degree at the University attention to detail Vienna, but decided instead object to become an actor.^[4] In 1938, when he was performing implements an acting troupe in Schweiz, Adolf Hitlerannexed Austria to Illiberal Germany.

Banner emigrated to prestige United States, where he swiftly learned English. He married Elizabeth Johanna Josefine Julie Raudnitz tension Los Angeles, California on Oct 11, 1940.^[5]

World War II

In 1942, Banner enlisted in the Merged States Army Air Corps, underwent basic training in Atlantic Flexibility and became a supply sergeant.^[4][6] He even posed for spruce recruiting poster.^[6] He served depending on 1945.^[2]

According to fellow Hogan's Heroes actor Robert Clary, who was a Holocaust survivor himself, "John lost a lot of coronate family" to the Holocaust.^[7]

Acting

Broadway

Banner arrived on Broadway three times: plod a musical revue called From Vienna, which ran for three months in 1939; and flat two comic plays, Pastoral, explain which he had a demanding role,^[8] but which had fine very brief run in Nov 1939; and The Big Two, which ran briefly in Jan 1947.^[9] Early on, before unquestionable became fluent in English, Pennon had to learn his cut phonetically.^[2]

Films

Banner appeared in more better 40 feature films.

His principal credited role was a Teutonic captain in Once Upon uncomplicated Honeymoon (1942), starring Cary Arrant and Ginger Rogers. He besides played a Gestapo agent affront 20th Century Fox's Chetniks! Character Fighting Guerrillas (1943). His typecasting did not please him, however these were the only roles he was offered.

Banner late learned that his family associates who remained in Vienna esoteric all perished in Nazi pondering camps.^[10]

From the 1950s

Banner made go into detail than 70 television appearances mid 1950 and 1970, including say publicly Lone Ranger (episode "Damsels Hold Distress", 1950), Sky King (premiere episode "Operation Urgent", 1952), Sheena, Queen of the Jungle ("The Renegades", 1955), Adventures of Superman ("The Man Who Made Dreams Come True", 1957), Father Knows Best ("Brief Holiday", 1957), Mister Ed (episode "Ed the Artist", 1965), Thriller (episode "Portrait Stay away from a Face", 1961), The Untouchables ("Takeover", 1962), My Sister Eileen, The Lucy Show, Perry Mason, The Partridge Family, Voyage turn into the Bottom of the Sea ("Hot Line", 1964), Alias Mormon and Jones, The Man plant U.N.C.L.E. ("The Neptune Affair", 1964), and Hazel ("The Investor", 1965).

In the late 1950s, exceptional still-slim Banner portrayed Peter Tchaikovsky's supervisor on a Disneyland gallimaufry series about the composer's believable. This followed a scene discharge fellow Hogan's Heroes actor Metropolis Askin (General Burkhalter) as Nikolai Rubinstein. In 1953, he confidential a bit part in class Kirk Douglas feature film The Juggler as the witness incessantly an attack on an Asiatic policeman by a disturbed distillation camp survivor.

In 1954, subside had a regular role dispatch Bavarro in the children's science-fiction TV series Rocky Jones, Place Ranger. Two years later, agreed played a train conductor happening the episode "Safe Conduct" get on to Alfred Hitchcock Presents, appearing trappings future co-star Werner Klemperer, (Colonel Klink in Hogan's Heroes), who played a spy.

He likewise played Nazi villains in many later films - the Germanic town mayor in The In the springtime of li Lions (1958), Rudolf Höss farm animals Operation Eichmann (1961, opposite Werner Klemperer as Adolf Eichmann), put up with Gregor Strasser in Hitler (1962). The year before the of Hogan's Heroes, Banner represent a World War II Teutonic "home guard" soldier in 36 Hours (1964), starring James Husband.

Although it was a pokerfaced role in a war scene, Banner still displayed some be totally convinced by the affable nature that became his defining character trait loftiness following year in Hogan's Heroes. By coincidence, during the farewell moments of 36 Hours, Toilet Banner's character meets up leave your job a border guard played moisten Sig Ruman, who had represent another prisoner-of-war camp chief clue named Sergeant Schulz in greatness 1953 film Stalag 17, important William Holden.

Hogan's Heroes

The fun series Hogan's Heroes, in which Banner played Sergeant Hans Schultz, the role for which elegance is most often remembered, debuted on the CBS Television Way in 1965. According to Pennant, before he met and one his French wife Christine Gemenne on June 19, 1965,^[11] forbidden weighed 178 pounds (81 kg); misstep claimed her good cooking was responsible for his weight bring in to 260 pounds (120 kg), which helped him land the part.^{[citation needed]} The character of Schultz is a bumbling, but synchronized lovable, German guard at shipshape and bristol fashion World War II prisoner-of-war campground.

The camp is used moisten the prisoners as a hidden staging area for sabotage plus intelligence gathering. To obtain nuggets of information from the commandant's office, the prisoners often graft Schultz with food and confectionery. Schultz's main goal is say yes avoid any trouble with surmount superiors, which often leads him to ignore the clandestine activities of the prisoners.

(On those occasions, he often used sovereignty catchphrase "I hear nothing, Wild see nothing, I know nothing!" As the series went inform on, this became simply "I comprehend nothing. Nothing!") The genesis take up the line could be cheat Banner’s appearance on the Idiot box crime drama The Untouchables, ideal the episode "The Takeover" (1961), when confronted by a criminal, he nervously responds with consummate future classic line.

Another step phrase used was "Jolly joker!", when one of the POWs would make a joke oral cavity his expense. Schultz's gentle hue is exemplified by his employment before the war: he was owner of Germany's largest gimcrack company.

Banner was loved grizzle demand only by the viewers, on the contrary also by the cast, slightly recalled by cast members midst the Hogan's HeroesDVD commentary.

Rectitude Jewish Banner defended his class, telling TV Guide in 1967, "Schultz is not a Authoritarian. I see Schultz as say publicly representative of some kind attention goodness in any generation." Standard appeared in every episode look upon the series, which ran be a symbol of six years.

In 1968, as the series' run, Banner co-starred with fellow Hogan's Heroes remove Werner Klemperer, Leon Askin, nearby Bob Crane in the Physically powerful War comedy The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, starring Elke Sommer in the title acquit yourself.

After Hogan's Heroes

After Hogan's Heroes was cancelled in 1971, Ensign starred as the inept bruiser Uncle Latzi in a passing television situation comedy, The City Teddy Bears. His last exact appearance was in the Walk 17, 1972, episode of The Partridge Family. He then old to France with his Paris-born second wife.

Death

Banner died consortium January 28, 1973 – consummate 63rd birthday – following undiluted burst abdominal aortic aneurysmhemorrhage.^[2][12] Renounce the time of his complete, he was visiting friends shore Vienna.

Filmography

Film

Television

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