leon askin played general burkhalter on hogan's heroes.
leon askin played general burkhalter on hogan's heroes.
who played general burkhalter on hogan's heroes?
leon askin
bullet::::- general albert hans "hansi" burkhalter (portrayed by leon askin) – general albert burkhalter is klink's gruff and rotund "wehrmacht heer" superior officer. his rank is equivalent to a lieutenant (three-star) general in the american forces. burkhalter frequently tires of klink's obsequious manner and nervous babbling ("shut up klink!") and regularly threatens to send him to the russian front or have him shot. burkhalter is mystified by stalag 13's perfect record, unable to make sense of it in contrast with klink's apparent incompetence. however, burkhalter, is sometimes shown to be a somewhat incompetent general himself. he is deathly scared of his wife, and after hogan manages to get photos of the general with other women in order to blackmail him, burkhalter frantically agrees to do whatever is necessary to save his reputation. like klink, burkhalter comes to depend on hogan's explanations to get him out of trouble with the high command when hogan's schemes result in german failures.
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bullet::::- frau gertrude linkmeyer (née burkhalter) (portrayed by kathleen freeman, played once by alice ghostley) – frau gertrude linkmeyer is general burkhalter's gruff, homely and possibly widowed sister. she is usually in a one-sided relationship with klink, who does not return her affection. her previous husband, otto, is missing in action on the russian front, this leads general burkhalter to arrange meetings between her and klink in order to marry her off. later in the series ("kommandant gertrude"), frau linkmeyer arrives at the camp with her new (and reluctant) fiancé, major wolfgang karp (lee bergere), whom she intends to have replace klink as kommandant, but hogan manages to foil her plans and their engagement.
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