Robert Clary

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Robert Clary (* 1. March 1926 as Robert Max Widerman in Paris ) is an in France born American actor and singer .

Life

His mother was a nurse and Robert was the youngest of probably 14 children. In 1942 he and twelve other members of his family were arrested because of their Jewish origins. Clary spent three years in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps . He also wore an inmate number and therefore mostly long-sleeved clothing in later films.

After the Second World War , he went to the USA as the only survivor of his family , where he appeared as a singer and performer. In 1951 he made his film debut in Ten Tall Men . Robert Clary played from 1965 to 1971 in the prisoner of war series A Cage Full of Heroes the role of "Louis LeBeau" and in 1975 in Robert Wise's disaster film The Hindenburg about the Zeppelin crash the passenger "Joe Spah". Clary worked as a musician until the end.

After Richard Dawson's death in 2012, Robert Clary is the last surviving lead actor in the original cast of A Cage Full of Heroes .

literature

  • Robert Clary: From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes. The Autobiography of Robert Clary . Madison Books, Lanham, New York 2001, ISBN 1-56833-228-9 .
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 81.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ French Belter - Time of November 24, 1952 (as of May 4, 2008)
personal data
SURNAME Clary, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robert Max Widermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor and singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France