Leon Askin AKA Leo Aschkenasy Born: 18-Sep-1907 Birthplace: Vienna, Austria Died: 3-Jun-2005 Location of death: Vienna, Austria Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria
Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Actor Nationality: Austria Executive summary: General Burkhalter on Hogan's Heroes Military service: US Army Leon Askin's family could not afford to send him to school full-time, so he studied acting at night school while working as a bookkeeper and salesman. He worked as an actor and director in Vienna and parlayed that into a steady work at the famous Louise Dumont Theater in Düsseldorf, Germany. Because of his ethnicity Askin was fired in 1933, and subsequently arrested and beaten.
He returned to Vienna, then fled to Paris in 1938 when the Nazis took Austria. His parents were imprisoned and killed in a Nazi concentration camp. In Paris, Askin was put into a French internment camp -- not for being Jewish, but for being from Nazi-controlled Austria. He applied to emigrate to America, and arrived in New York in 1940, where the Austrian Leo Aschkenasy became the American Leon Askin and served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
As an actor, Askin was often cast as the bad guy with a foreign accent in American movies and TV shows from Mission: Impossible to The Monkees. His most famous role was on the prisoner-of-war sitcom Hogan's Heroes, as General Burkhalter, the big Nazi who was always threatening to send Col. Klink to the Russian front.
Father: Samuel Aschkenasy Mother: Malvine Aschkenasy Wife: Mimi Wife: Annelies "Lies" Ehrlich
Allied Internment Camp Inmate Austrian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Obesity
TELEVISION Hogan's Heroes
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Odd Jobs (1984) Frightmare (Jan-1983) · Wolfgang Airplane II: The Sequel (10-Dec-1982) · Moscow Anchorman Going Ape! (10-Apr-1981) Doctor Death: Seeker of Souls (Oct-1973) Genesis II (23-Mar-1973) The World's Greatest Athlete (14-Feb-1973) Hammersmith Is Out (12-May-1972) The Maltese Bippy (18-Jun-1969) · Axel Kronstadt A Fine Pair (10-May-1969) Guns for San Sebastian (20-Mar-1968) The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (3-Jan-1968) The Perils of Pauline (2-Aug-1967) · Commissar The Caper of the Golden Bulls (21-Jun-1967) Double Trouble (5-Apr-1967) · Insp. de Groote What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (31-Aug-1966) · Col. Kastorp Do Not Disturb (22-Dec-1965) · Langsdorf John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (24-Mar-1965) Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (30-Nov-1962) One, Two, Three (15-Dec-1961) · Peripetchikoff Mistress of the World (14-Apr-1960) The Last Blitzkrieg (30-Jan-1959) Spy Chasers (31-Jul-1955) · Col. Baxis Son of Sinbad (31-May-1955) Carolina Cannonball (28-Jan-1955) Valley of the Kings (21-Jul-1954) · Valentine Arko Secret of the Incas (28-May-1954) · Anton Marcu Knock on Wood (14-Apr-1954) · Gromeck Veils of Bagdad (7-Oct-1953) The Robe (16-Sep-1953) · Abidor China Venture (7-Sep-1953) · Wu King South Sea Woman (3-Jun-1953) · Pierre Marchand Desert Legion (20-Apr-1953) · Maj. Vasil Road to Bali (19-Nov-1952) · Ramayana
Official Website: http://www.askin.at/
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