John Banner (born Johann Banner , January 28, 1910 - January 28, 1973) is an Austrian-born Austrian film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Sergeant Schultz in the sitcom Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971). Schultz, constantly finding evidence that his stalag prisoners were planning chaos, often pretending not to know with his slogan, "I do not see anything! I do not hear anything! I do not know anything!" (Or, more generally when the series continues, "I do not know anything, nothing!").
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Initial years
Banner was born to Jewish parents in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He studied for a law degree at the University of Vienna, but decided to become an actor. In 1938, when he appeared with a group of acting in Switzerland, Adolf Hitler annexed Austria to Nazi Germany. Banner emigrated to the United States, where he quickly took English.
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World War II
In 1942, he enrolled in the United States Air Force Corps, underwent basic training in Atlantic City and became a sergeant of supply. He even posed for a recruitment poster. He served until 1945.
According to fellow Hogan's Heroes Robert Clary, "John lost his many families" to the Holocaust.
Action
Broadway
Banner appeared on Broadway three times - in a music revue titled From Vienna , which lasted two months in 1939; and in two comic dramas, Movies
Banners appear in over 40 feature films. His first credentialed role was the German captain in Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942), starring Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers. He plays the Gestapo agent at 20th Century Fox Chetnik! The Fighting Guerrillas (1943). His typecasting did not please him - he would later find out that his family members who remained in Vienna were all killed in Nazi concentration camps - but that was the only job offered to him. From the 1950s and Hogan Heroes
Banner made over 70 television appearances between the 1950s and 1970s, including the Lone Ranger (episode "Damsels In Distress", 1950), Sky King (premiere episode "Operation Urgent" , 1952), Sheena, Queen of the Forest ("The Renegades", 1955), Superman Adventure ("Human Dream Making Being Realistic", 1957) Know the Best ("Short Stay", 1957), Master Ed , Fun Stories (episode "Portrait Without a Face", 1961) The Untouchable <> ("Takeover", 1962), My Sister Eileen , The Lucy Show , Perry Mason Partridge Family, Cruises to the Seafarers ("Hot Line", 1964), Alias ​​â € <â €
In the late 1950s, a still-slim Banner depicts superintendent Peter Tchaikovsky in the Disneyland anthropology series about the life of the composer. It follows the scene with fellow Hogan's Heroes actor Leon Askin (General Burkhalter) as Nikolai Rubinstein. In 1953, he had little part in the Kirk Douglas Juggler film as a witness of an attack on an Israeli policeman by a disturbed concentration camp victim.
In 1954, he had a regular role as Bavarro in the Rocky Jones children series, Space Ranger. Two years later, he plays the train conductor in the episode "Safe Behavior" from President Alfred Hitchcock, appearing alongside future star Werner Klemperer, who plays the spy. He played Nazi villain in later films: Mayor of the German city in The Young Lions (1958); Rudolf HÃÆ'¶ss in Operation Eichmann (1961); and Gregor Strasser at Hitler (1962). The year before the premiere of Hogan's Heroes , Banner described a soldier in the World War II "guard" of the house in 36 Hours (1964). Although it is a serious role in a war drama, Banner still features some friendly traits that will be the decisive feature of the character he will create for television the following year. Coincidentally, at the last moment of 36 Hours , John Banner's character meets the border guard played by Sig Ruman, who has described a warden of another prison camp guard named Sergeant Schulz, in 1953 < i> Stalag 17 , starring William Holden.
Hogan's Heroes comedy series, in which Banner plays Sergeant Schultz, the role he most often remembers, debuted on the American television network in 1965. According to Banner before he met and married the French wife Christine, he weighed 178 pounds (81 kg) ; She claims that her fine cuisine is responsible for her weight gain of up to 260 pounds (120 kg), which helped her get that part. Schultz's character was a clumsy, low-faced German guard, but was ultimately loved in a World War II prison camp. This camp is used by prisoners as a staging ground for anti-German sabotage and intelligence gathering. Schultz will forever be indebted to the inmates, whom they use for their cause. The main purpose is to avoid the problems of his superiors, which often make him ignore the clandestine activities of the prisoners. (On that occasion he often says his slogan "I do not hear anything, I do not see anything, I do not know anything!" When the series continues, it becomes "I do not know anything. ). Banners are loved not only by viewers, but also by players, as the cast members recall in Hogan's Heroes DVD commentary. The Jewish Banner defended his character, told the TV Guide in 1967, "Schultz is not a Nazi, I see Schultz as a representative of some kind of goodness in every generation." Banners appear in almost every episode of the series, which lasts for six years.
In 1968, Banner starred in "Hogan's Heroes" alumni, Werner Klemperer, Leon Askin, and Bob Crane in the Cold War comedy "The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz", starring Elke Sommer as the main character. After Hogan's Heroes was canceled in 1971, Banner starred as Uncle Latzi's incompetent gangster in a short-lived television sitcom, The Chicago Teddy Bears . His last acting performance was on March 17, 1972, the episode of The Partridge Family. He then retired to France with his second wife who was born in Paris.
Death
Less than a year after moving back to Europe, while visiting friends in Vienna, John Banner died on his 63rd birthday, after a stomach bleeding. He survived by his wife Christine.
Movieography
Television credits
See also
- Biographical portal
References
Note
External links
- John Banner on IMDb
- John Banner on Broadway Internet Database
- John Banner on Finding the Mausoleum
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